I’ve joined the haiku group on Twitter and it has revived a long held love of the form.
Haiku is a Japanese poetry form that traditionally is written in three lines of 5 / 7 / 5 syllables, though many people do not adhere to that rule. Twitter, with it’s 140 character limit is the ideal delivery medium for this art form. Below are my haikus from the last week. I’d love to see you on Twitter where you can add your 17 syllables to the flow. (My latest tweets–as NatureSpirits–are in my sidebar.)
measuring sticks, click to enlarge
Incoming high tide…
I can read the water’s depth
on blue heron legs.Sweet songs waft uphill,
new arrivals fluff feathers
on sunny branches.As the days lengthen
I open to growing light…
Spring pulses in me.I watch the sunset
on the bellies of seagulls
passing overhead.Polka-dotted branch
bumps of new life emerging…
Spring arrives in Braille.Slender gold sickle:
I hang tear-drenched dreams to dry
on the waning moon.Mirrored silver bay
reflecting swooping swallows
calm water moving.A dark moon tonight
creating a vacant sky
tomorrow renewed.Bare winter alders
glow in February blush—
pink catkins dangling.
I really do feel even brief meditative moments can punctuate our days with respites from the chaos. How do you make pauses in your days?
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