sprawled on the sidewalk / the blue-gloved cop takes her pulse / the city walks on
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Haiku | “the city walks on”
Posted in Haiku, tagged haiku, modern haiku, Poems on August 26, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Haiku | “love you little beast”
Posted in Haiku, tagged haiku, modern haiku, Poems on August 19, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Haiku | “a canticle of summer”
Posted in Haiku, tagged haiku, modern haiku on July 29, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Haiku | “with a thousand sighs”
Posted in Haiku, tagged haiku, modern haiku, Poems on July 1, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Haiku | “between particle and wave”
Posted in Haiku, tagged haiku, modern haiku, Poems on May 4, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Poem | “Just Sayin”
Posted in Haiku, tagged Poems, poetry on February 28, 2018| 2 Comments »
an / INSPIRATIONAL / {!!!} / quote with / line- / breaks / IS NOT / a / poem / (and adding a [picture] doesn’t help) [frowny face]
Haiku | “we the beautiful unknowns”
Posted in Haiku, tagged haiku, Poems on January 28, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Haiku About Love
Posted in Haiku, tagged haiku, modern haiku, Poems on October 16, 2017| Leave a Comment »
beguiling motion / thrum and fire of my life / your supple machine
i am warm honey / i am sweet cream and cherries / lick me like candy
today we woke up / to a hundred yellow suns / on the blooming tree
my heart is dark and / dramatic. my body aches / for you. be impressed
see me as i am / every woman has the right / to be beautiful
that shimmering sea / that blue day when our hearts burned / brighter than the sun
our love was a map / to a better world. so how / did we wind up here?
no gold more precious / than this light, no pearl’s luster / warmer than your skin
no one will know how / i walked these rooms and hungered / for your smell like food
so bright is love we / see the shadows of the dead / even in the dark
i heard no music / until the music was you / all love songs are true
These haiku about love are the seventh garden of my haiku collection, seven gardens. Haiku in English are unrhymed, three-line poems which are often in a 5-7-5 format of five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second, and five syllables in the third. Haiku are especially distinguished by cutting (“kiru” in Japanese) in which the poem is cut into two sections which juxtapose two elements, which can be an image, an idea, a mood, an emotion, or an experience. I follow the 5-7-5 format but ignore cutting as I please which is different from many modern haiku poets, who do the opposite.
Readers of this collection of haiku about love will notice they tell a story and the haiku speak in two voices. This was not my original intention. These haiku were written separately, over a period of years, and not in the order presented. I discovered the love story and the voices that speak it while arranging this “garden” of haiku and in the process discovered … as the well worn phrase goes … that the whole was greater than the sum of its parts.
Haiku | “why such a hurry?”
Posted in Haiku, tagged haiku, modern haiku, Poems on October 8, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Haiku | “history turned it back”
Posted in Haiku, tagged haiku, modern haiku, Poems on October 1, 2017| 1 Comment »