A Year of Haiku

9

2011-04-18T09:50:00.000-07:00

You'd pay a fortune

for a painting like this but

I walk into you.

8

2011-04-17T09:16:00.000-07:00

The weight of the world

on his shoulders the death of

A leaf in Autumn

7

2011-04-16T04:40:00.000-07:00

Half past eleven

and I'm half way through my life

lost but still breathing.

6

2011-04-15T14:21:00.000-07:00

See them float upstairs

like they're made of helium

All the dreams I had.

5

2011-04-15T14:07:00.000-07:00

The wooden gate farts

and the dog at the end barks

The dead sleep I drown

4

2011-04-15T09:50:00.000-07:00

Wailing and screaming

Hell is a frying pan full

of freshly cut chips

3

2011-04-12T05:54:00.000-07:00

God makes the world spin

anticlockwise the spider

dies with one small flush.

2

2011-04-11T09:16:00.000-07:00

Bumper to bumper

The huffs and puffs of traffic

Clouds above my house.

One Haiku a Day.

2011-04-10T07:43:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my new blog where I hope to write at least one Haiku a day for a whole year. Throughout my life I have had a love-hate relationship with poetry, loving to write and read poetry but hating the Narcissism that surrounds the world of poetry. I write poetry because I love to create worlds, not because I want to count Iambic Pentameters. I don't want to read poetry that I need a literacy degree to understand and neither do I want to write any of that baloney.

This idea came as I read something that a fellow blogger wrote this morning and I realised that I don't read enough poetry or write enough poetry. Therefore I decided to create a blog to encourage me to write more, especially the art of Haiku. For this blog I hope to write at least one Haiku a day for a whole year ( but sometimes perhaps more) and other forms of poetry. I may also use this blog to post some of my short stories.

It will be interesting to see if I actually manage to write a Haiku a day and whether my writing will improveas a consequence.

So here goes, my first Haiku.

A wedding ring suspended

In a dark night sky

I fell in Love with the Moon.