Featuring two haiku written for the #HaikuSeed heat
summer heat
barefoot dancing
with mosquitoes
soaking heat …
I am the fly’s
sip of water
– Richard Barnes / @NaumaddicArts
Tag: micropoetry
Kimono / #HaikuSeed / Editor’s Garden
Today’s #HaikuSeed is kimono
Kimono is one of my favorite Japanese words to use in haiku. Cherry blossom is another one at the top of the list, obviously. Well, they are two of my favorites whether I’m writing haiku or not. I guess I romanticize Japan and many things from the country. I think it is so because I’ve read many haiku from the Japanese masters like Basho which mesmerized me with their beauty, simplicity, mellowness, sensory and visual descriptions; and somewhere in my head, all of it tied to Japan which must be an inherent source and ingredient in all these verses that have inspired and moved me when I first learnt about haiku all those years ago.
in the garden, a nettle shoot
tugs at her pink kimono
asking her to stay
Neighbour / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary
Featuring haiku written by Voimaoy for the #HaikuSeed neighbour
surviving the plague years–
waving to my neighbor
across the street
– Voimaoy / @voimaoy
Windowsill / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary
Featuring haiku written by Richard Barnes for the #HaikuSeed windowsill
hard rain
on the windowsill
tiny elbows
– Richard Barnes / @NaumaddicArts
Cicada / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary
Featuring haiku written by @micro_zon for the #HaikuSeed cicada
Forests of Cicadas 森
There are no songs
until tomorrow.
Low Tide / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary
Featuring two haiku for the #HaikuSeed low tide, in no particular order.
low tide — the egret’s legs shorter yesterday
when the great whale
is revealed cell by cell…
low tide
– Alan Summers / @haikutec
Blister / Editor’s Garden
#HaikuSeed blister
poet crafting haiku
seeking perfection, her fingers
just short of blisters
— Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta
Founding Editor
@coffeeandhaiku
Water Lily / Editor’s Garden
#HaikuSeed water lily
neighbour’s terrace garden —
like their water lilies
plentiful my envy
— Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta
Founding Editor
@coffeeandhaiku
Blister / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary
Featuring haiku written by Anna Orridge for the #HaikuSeed blister
Crocus heads blister
the soil, erupting in
purple tenderness
– Anna Orridge / @orridge_anna
Mosquito / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary
Featuring haiku written by Ash Evan for the #HaikuSeed mosquito
perfume
lightly on my wrist
a mosquito
– Ash Evan / @mossinsnow