Early morning freeze
Sun shines above frosty trees
Foggy close to ground
Sun sets, dusk arrives
Dense fog rolls in, diffuse light
Illuminates night.
Looking up, i see
The moon, hazy through the fog,
Wearing a halo.
Dark green, shiny, smooth
Poblano chilies today
Roasting in oven
Still tired sometimes
Two years past diagnosis
Naps for me again
Good night, sleep tight, and
Even if those bedbugs bite,
Turn the other cheek.
Congratulations
To the USA, working
Together again
So not domestic
Am i, inefficient with
Household tasks, no fun.
Lazy Sunday, we
Are snuggled in bed, happy
To be together
Dried chilies, many
Spices, chocolate, sweet hot
Mole poblano
My fingers are orange
My tongue tingles from tasting
The chiles, yum yum.
Good night, good night, clouds
Cover the stars shining bright
Cold blanket instead.
If you’ve been following my blog, you might know that i decided to write and post at least one haiku per day, for the rest of the year. They won’t all be clever – indeed i am sure that some will be banal and repetitive. Lots are going to be weather related or perhaps about my search for entertaining topics. I guess I will go back and add tags for the topics – at the end of this I’ll have a crapload of haiku(s). And some will quite simply be, crap.
But anyway. Haiku are interesting to me, a highly disorganized person who doesn’t like too much structure. The predictable structure of haiku gives me a framework and within that framework, i have an enormous amount of flexibility to create. It’s very freeing. So i know the boundaries and when i think up a haiku – whoosh! Write and post. I like it.
I’m even considering moving on to lists of things to do, or the evil to-do list. Now that is scary.
Bright white, all so light
Even the sky is so white,
Almost too much light.
Winter can be oh
so dreary, snow, sleet and cold
Just make me weary
I need some sunlight,
And vitamin d, but
First i need a nap.
Too many crazies
Suck out too much energy
Zombie recipe
Casting about for
Haiku subjects, not easy
But i keep writing.
A haiku a day
Keeps the doctor away, and
Helps your mental health
More snow with the dawn
Powdery dry flakes, floating
Winter fireflies
Night falls, though snow stops
Quiet muffled sound, outside
It seems strangely bright
Good night good night, i
Turn out the light, and under
The blankets we go.
Sun and snow, but cold
Chills me to the bone, still bright
And so beautiful
Weather haiku, so
Immediate, vividly
Here for all to see.
German words have more
Syllables, do haikus then
Have far fewer words?
A week of haiku
Good for me! Now i write for
Fifty one more weeks.
Cold again, bitter
Wind cuts through, dark heavy sky
Burning wood and snow
Trees without their leaves
Gnarled fingers grasp the sky
Dark and beautiful
Time Flies Like an Arrow 