As I posted some time ago I do not any more consider the ‘haiku’ or ‘tanka’ I write to be haiku or tanka, in fact I do not consider any written in anything other than Japanese to be haiku or tanka. This particularly so for what I call ‘picture haiku’: the words and the picture come almost simultaneously. But it’s convenient to refer to them as such.
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This post does not include a haiku but charts my journey since I began to try to write them
Haiku – a journey through seventeen syllables
October 28, 2013
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from one year to three
from Shipley to Banbury
skiffle liberates
Picture haiku
June 23, 2012
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how does someone blind
who cannot see the sky’s blue
create this art work?
Inspiration from blogs and blindness – creativity in food, photography, haiku and writing
July 5, 2012
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take inspiration.
visit the God particle
on a pedal bike
The God particle and inspiration for a would-be creative writer
July 7, 2012
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celestial ships
from another universe
fantasy Yorkshire sky
Sky picture haiku
July 8, 2012
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my long fallen friend
hacked down from your majesty
rest awhile with me
Trees – picture haiku
July 9, 2012
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one destination
straight … curious meander
we wonder … and wait
Picture haiku – life
July 12, 2012
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imagine … differ
climb out of the commonplace
halt … think free … proceed
Haiku – three word prompt – no picture
July 15, 2012
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soul guide … hand taken
serene work on graceful curves
symbol stories writ
Picture haiku – an egg from Bucovina
July 20, 2012
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Earth to earth … to dust
twist … scream … turn … yet now return
games in the graveyard
grass is greener where?
bare footed … treading careless
leaving litter here
A pair felt in a graveyard
July 29, 2012
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biscuits cut from sky
baking in the summer sun
heaven gives … look up
Picture haiku – sky biscuits in Iasi, Romania
August 3, 2012
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chirruping crickets
all else mute they look to dawn
winter waits … restore
August 9, 2012
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a deep thought minute
click to click is time enough
the wind raged … sea calmed
Picture haiku: time cures all
November 29, 2012
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madness frozen out
bones interred together … warmed
peace … buds in waiting
Picture haiku – Daily Prompt: Through the Window
January 29, 2013
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witches tread with care
beware our bouquet … spiky
healthy human food
Picture haiku – Washburn valley, Olympus OM4
June 5, 2013
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green satiated
winter songsters’ sanguine store
shiver prophesy
Picture haiku: rowan
October 20, 2013
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white snow dying … grey
children’s faces sad … silent
birds sing … dreams of spring
haiku: snow
January 22, 2015
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office rules to rest
laid among timed paper clips
writing in my head
haiku – writer’s retirement
February 6, 2015
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time travel … from chat
to chat in another time
anaesthesia
anaesthesia – haiku. Hernia repair
May 30, 2015
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leaves in still puddles
reflections of lost summer
rusted … yet to fall
Five reflections plus one
February 12, 2017
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distant memory
fighting to recall your face
dementia kills me
sublime poetry
in lyrics of a sad song
speaking to my soul
appegios sooth
minor chords provoke … sometimes
love flows in … and out
The thrill of seeing your writing in print
June 20, 2017
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autumn comes tardy
nature’s paintbox still half closed
birds gorge on berries
A special day doing nothing special. A haiku
October 6, 2017
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tanka
snowflakes in the rain
diluting their cold beauty
we wait for snowballs
like waiting for love letters
in a disrupted affair
Performing again! A tanka and a short story
November 19, 2016
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river’s melody
embraced by guardian hills
a chaffinch sings
the mad bull sinks into us
relishing the peace he brings
A trip to the English Lakes
April 21, 2017
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i saw you lovely
looking in a cracked mirror
quicksilver faded
too late I crossed the fractures
to reflect with you what might
Five reflections plus one
February 12, 2017
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Tanka for Ilkley Literature Festival ‘Fringe’
autumn tale written
too long for this fringe reading
fairies won’t be timed
so settle for a tanka
blog sleeps waiting for Mia
Another tanka for Ilkley Literature Festival ‘Fringe’
colours leached from sky
clouds grumble grey tinted rain
caught by leaves and fruit
apples flushed red invite bites
delight swaps from eyes to tongues
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