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
Saturday 29 September 2018
Thursday 27 September 2018
Wednesday 26 September 2018
Friday 21 September 2018
keynote speaker
with no end
in sight
Published (2018) Failed Haiku Volume 3, Issue 35, page 22
Living Haiku Anthology
with no end
in sight
Published (2018) Failed Haiku Volume 3, Issue 35, page 22
Living Haiku Anthology
Tuesday 18 September 2018
final resting place
squashed between pages
a dead fly
****
a dead fly
squashed between pages...
but who closed to book?
****
scraping a dead fly*
from the old book
I read on
Published (2018) ephemerae Volume1, C, page 50
LHA Ref:
ephemerae 1.C, December 2018
* at the suggestion of Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy the original first line was changed from:
'scraping the dead fly'*
Living Haiku Anthology
squashed between pages
a dead fly
****
a dead fly
squashed between pages...
but who closed to book?
****
scraping a dead fly*
from the old book
I read on
Published (2018) ephemerae Volume1, C, page 50
LHA Ref:
ephemerae 1.C, December 2018
* at the suggestion of Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy the original first line was changed from:
'scraping the dead fly'*
Living Haiku Anthology
Monday 17 September 2018
coffee breath
the girl to my right
speaks to the one on my left
Published (2018) Failed Haiku Volume 3, Issue 35, page 22
Living Haiku Anthology
the girl to my right
speaks to the one on my left
Published (2018) Failed Haiku Volume 3, Issue 35, page 22
Living Haiku Anthology
Sunday 16 September 2018
Friday 14 September 2018
optician's bill
unable to read
the small print
Published cattails April 2019 page 39
Editor's choice:
What if the first line had been: grocer’s bill? The result would have been a very mundane poem not worth committing to memory. But put ‘optician’s bill’ instead and the irony hits you in the eye. Yet another senryu where juxtaposing two apparently unrelated images results in a whole which is funnier than the sum total of the parts.
Gautam Nadkarni
Living Senryu Anthology
Living Haiku Anthology
unable to read
the small print
Published cattails April 2019 page 39
Editor's choice:
What if the first line had been: grocer’s bill? The result would have been a very mundane poem not worth committing to memory. But put ‘optician’s bill’ instead and the irony hits you in the eye. Yet another senryu where juxtaposing two apparently unrelated images results in a whole which is funnier than the sum total of the parts.
Gautam Nadkarni
Living Senryu Anthology
Living Haiku Anthology
Saturday 8 September 2018
antique shop
the smell
of opportunity
Published (2018) ephemerae Volume1, C, page 50
LHA Ref:
ephemerae 1.C, December 2018
Published (2019) All the way home: aging in haiku page 295
Living Senryu Anthology
Living Haiku Anthology
the smell
of opportunity
Published (2018) ephemerae Volume1, C, page 50
LHA Ref:
ephemerae 1.C, December 2018
Published (2019) All the way home: aging in haiku page 295
Living Senryu Anthology
Living Haiku Anthology
Monday 3 September 2018
schoolboy football
everyone
chasing the ball
Published by Poetry Pea 18 February 2019
Living Haiku Anthology
everyone
chasing the ball
Published by Poetry Pea 18 February 2019
Living Haiku Anthology
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