Category Archives: Haiku

Haiku Natsugusa ya [Basho] Ah! Summer grasses, All that remains Of the warriors’ dreams. [Natsugusa ya tsuwamonodomo ga yume no ato] See more of Jing-reed’s creations…

How reluctantly the bee emerges from deep within the peony – Basho   And how reluctantly do we all surface from bliss when it envelopes us? Who, if they could, would not stay in the warm, sweet, heady atmosphere of … Continue reading →

From all directions Winds bring petals of cherry Into the grebe lake. – Basho  I feel scattered like this…

  swirling gas and points of light glimmer through black – effervescent art

Christmas Eve – presents wrapped; scratchy throat precedes the latest Christmas ‘gift’…

Curling tail over nose, the cat twitches her whiskers at ghostly mice

Dreary morning traffic crawls through rain – lemmings creep towards the cliff

Spring air – woven moon and plum scent.

Abandoned chairs sit Close together, cold and sad Under the weather. This is a class effort. The stimulus was a picture of two chairs sat back to back in an empty lot. Fantastic!