New Haiku
Here are some more new haiku I’ve written. The topics are varied.
The Haiku is usually a short, impressionistic poem. However, a haiku also has other characteristics:
- It focuses on nature or the seasons
- A division into two asymmetrical sections. This creates a juxtaposition of two subjects (e.g. something natural or human-made, two unexpectedly similar things. Yet there is still a relationship between the two.
- A contemplative or wistful tone.
- There are no superfluous words
- imagery predominates over ideas and statements, so that meaning is typically suggestive, requiring reader participation
- Little use of metaphor and similes
- The lines don’ rhyme
There are also one line Haiku (monoku) and other variations. I like to use the restrictions of the traditional form (3 lines, 17 syllables {5,7, 5}).
My New Haiku
A snoring partner
Could it be the sound of love
smiling at the world
Red licking at black
The fire is brazen, blazing
New growth will soon come
After the Fire $155
Oil on canvas 32.5 * 22.5 cm
His bark protects me
Don’t look at me like that
All right, here’s a treat
Cock a doodle doo
Tweet, twit, tweet, twit, tweet, coo-it
Time to crawl from bed
Hands covered in clay
I do what I love to do
Clothes covered in paint
Rows of marching ants
A frenzy round a dead bug
Gather for the Queen
The wind is swirling
Leaves spiral with loose paper
Dust stains the windows
A baby crying
A tired mother answering
It’s love that I hear
Mighty yellow disc
Rests on the edge of the world
Then sinks down to sleep
Atop a mountain
The stars sparkle forever
God lives in the land
Ferocious lion
His thundering roar shakes mountains
Tummy rumbling
Your name is your self
It feels strange upon your lips
Who the hell am I?
Wind rushing through hair
Running, jumping, screaming joy
Being is pleasure
Hope you enjoyed my new haiku. I will be publishing more writing soon.