Wednesday, 1 April 2009

Working at my desk
I am thrilled by the sight of
an owl in the night.


The fog is fading.
The sun breaks through, turning
the sky peachy pink.


February chill
and early morning sunshine
-the winter snoozes.


On top of a bus
overlooking fields and hills.
Nature's masterpiece.


Three hours until dusk
another day almost done.
Silver moon beckons.


My world is at peace
as the sun settles beyond
our quiet garden.


Reaching for the moon.
I'll never, ever give up.
Pen and poetry.
(for Steve)


Where the moon's brightest,
there lies my ambitious dream.
Sleepy eye opens.


Sunday afternoon.
I sit and watch the circus
- birds in the garden.


Glitterazi.
The celebrity's eyes
pierced by flashbulbs.


Foxes in the grass
screeching at one another.
Boisterous greeting.


Illogical beast.
The moth flies into the lamp
burning velvet wings


Late summer evening.
Dry grass begging for water.
Banana shape moon.

4 comments:

  1. Would love to hear any comments. Please get in touch.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Hi Jills!

    I do like them!

    I notice that you do 17 syllable versions and have upper case and full stops (periods) in your haiku.

    Haiku tend to look incomplete because they used to be a starting verse that was completed by the second verse of a renga.

    Basho broke the 17 'on' rule on quite a few occasions including his famous on a bare branch a crow settles autumn dusk haiku, so don't worry about always doing 5/7/5 because both classic and contemporary Japanese haiku poets break that all the time as well as Westerners! ;-)

    all my best,

    Alan
    www.withwords.org.uk

    p.s.
    'on' are part of a system to count 'sound units' in Japanese. There are no syllables or alphabet systems in the Japanese language, and also their punctuation are words not symbols such as ours, so technically speaking they aren't 'exactly' poems of 17 'syllables' if you take their word punctuation out. ;-)

    ReplyDelete
  3. p.p.s.

    I'm really pleased you started a haiku blog, welcome to the world of haiku on blogger.com.

    Looking forward to seeing your tanka too!

    all my best,
    Alan
    With Words International Haiku Competition 2009

    ReplyDelete