Here I record my own efforts at haiku, senryu and other short form poetry. I also provide a resources page and other comment on haiku. You can find some of my published haiku on the Living Haiku Anthology (https://preview.tinyurl.com/y88hqva7) and the Haiku Foundation Haiku Registry (https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9p2ahnl) - Roger Watson
Thursday 31 August 2017
rising river steam
cathedral bells chime
out of synch
Published (2017) Blithe Spirit, (Journal of the British Haiku Society) Volume 27, Number 4, page 18.
LHA Ref:
Blithe Spirit 27.3, November 2017
Living Haiku Anthology
This haiku was edited - and improved - by Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy, the original was:
cathedral bells
chiming out of synch
river steam rising
cathedral bells chime
out of synch
Published (2017) Blithe Spirit, (Journal of the British Haiku Society) Volume 27, Number 4, page 18.
LHA Ref:
Blithe Spirit 27.3, November 2017
Living Haiku Anthology
This haiku was edited - and improved - by Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy, the original was:
cathedral bells
chiming out of synch
river steam rising
Wednesday 30 August 2017
A linked renku with Su Wai Hlaing
new life
flows inside my daughter
as mine ebbs
fresh new leaves are symbols of
another new beginning
barley
the grain grows and ripens
then harvest
summer breeze carries along
smell of harvested barley
hammering
from a distance
my late father
reminiscing my childhood
my dad was the best singer
lullaby music
baby is listening
to silence
Friday 25 August 2017
glinting salmon
my world briefly
then his
Published cattails April 2019 page 29
Living Haiku Anthology
my world briefly
then his
Published cattails April 2019 page 29
Living Haiku Anthology
Sunday 20 August 2017
Friday 18 August 2017
Tuesday 8 August 2017
summer rain
swallows swooping
foot in a puddle
I submitted this following a 'when, what, where, prompt on 'sharing haiku knowledge' on facebook and receive the comment from Bee Jay:
"Usually a haiku contains one cut and two grammatical units. Your example reads like a list, unless you are showing us some swallows swooping somebody's foot in a puddle. Is that what you are showing us?"
Grateful to receive the comment I amended to:
summer rain
with swallows swooping
foot in a puddle
swallows swooping
foot in a puddle
I submitted this following a 'when, what, where, prompt on 'sharing haiku knowledge' on facebook and receive the comment from Bee Jay:
"Usually a haiku contains one cut and two grammatical units. Your example reads like a list, unless you are showing us some swallows swooping somebody's foot in a puddle. Is that what you are showing us?"
Grateful to receive the comment I amended to:
summer rain
with swallows swooping
foot in a puddle
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