Sketchbook  Haiku

 

 

Hortensia Anderson Gunsaku* Hexagram the invention of teabags makes telling the future impossible winter sun— filling the empty chair by the window drifting... into my dreams... childhood canoe ...by the waves washed away by the waves... swallowing life rafts of pain pills with sips of chills basho's frog floating in a jar of rain— fevered dream another scar— a new old me departing friends— getting to know my organs as they fail   Gunsaku* gunsaku (group work) Of haiku and tanka, a group of poems on a single subject which illuminate the subject from various points of view, but can be read independently. William J. Higginson with Penny Harter, The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku, published by Kodansha International. Copyright (C) 1989. p. 288.

 

 

John Daleiden, US icy white cold— buried in the depths of snow a bit of blue     these red roses in a glass vase for you what more can I say

 

 

Terra Martin, CA over roads and rivers silence— new snowdrifts     march moon— on the doormat maple tree shadows     crocus blossom— from a sea of shining snow     flurry of snowflakes— the promise of yesterdays words     winter rain— glazed skeletons of trees     -15 below— creaking pine ceiling

 

 

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