Haiku, March 2022

 Haiku, March 2022

Haiku is a traditional Japanese poetic form, consisting of three lines, with five syllables in the first and third lines, and seven in the second line. Here are some examples.

Shallow brooks babble.

Deep rivers flow in silence.

Much like the humans.

Artwork hangs on walls.

Windows into someone’s heart.

One full of beauty.

The middle of March.

I saw two robins today.

The first sign of spring.

It’s still cold today.

Walked along the river bridge.

Geese warm in their down.

Birdseed on the ground.

Cottontail tracks in the snow.

Hang-on, spring’s coming!

Did my four-mile walk.

Over the Fox River bridge.

Eagles overhead.

Careful, fishermen!

Ice turns into floating floes.

Ice, a melting boat.

I went ice fishing.

Mostly that’s what I caught: ice!

Also caught a cold.

Many years ago

I caught a large, walleyed pike.

My best catch through ice.

Over the river.

Bald, winged, feathered fishermen.

Eagles catching fish.

Fishermen fishing.

No one catching any fish.

Except for the birds.

At the forest edge.

It is our friend, the lame deer.

We feed her cracked corn.

Our planked wood ceiling.

Built sixty-five years ago.

Wood grain beauty lasts.

Bernie married Dot.

Back in the nineteen fifties.

They had our house built.

They’re Bernie and Dot

Their spirit’s in the wood work.

Lived here fifty years.

Once the doorbell rang.

There was no one at the door.

Dot pulling her tricks.

A one story house

With a cathedral ceiling

Keeps one looking up!

On a city street

Our view is of the country.

Fox, deer, wild turkeys.

It’s Friday today.

When she worked, my wife was glad.

Time for Happy Dance!

Grandkids now need help.

Well, really their parents do.

Call Grandma Hotline!