Haiku Moments

[BDBoop]

Being demonized
Turns me into somebody
I have never been

 

[freedombecki]

night glass reflection​

obfuscates bright trumpet vines​

alternating plane​

 

[freedombecki]

rings circling saturn​

belie attraction and spin​

beauty's mysteries​

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credits: Wikipedia, Saturn​

 

[freedombecki]

ringing the doorbell​

seems like no signal was heard​

wide-eyed windows stare​

 

[freedombecki]

talking with the hands​

passenger lecture proceeds​

silent argument​

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[freedombecki]

carrot-topped beauty​

singing a hymn while ironing​

memories of mom​

 

[SayMyName]

Air raids are sounding.
Peering, I sip my coffee.
Stranger in strange land.

 

[freedombecki2]

leather-woven purse
lightweight and ready to go
prize from good will store​

 

[freedombecki2]

o where is my friend
who supports library cause
diamond in the mine​

 

[Unkotare]

no need to believe



the wind will always catch you



just breathe deeply

.

 

[Unkotare]

learning not to learn



an empty bowl fills up best



with nothing at all

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[Unkotare]

one bell struck gently



all the truth in these worlds



are you listening?

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[emilynghiem]

Coming home early
I catch my wife red-handed
Stabbing some poet

 

[Impenitent]

He once penned these words

Good things come to those who wait

Tell it to him now

 

[beautress]

lake with still waters
mirrors its approbation
to eyes filled with awe​

such lovely moments
back when my man walked this earth
lake mirrored laughter​

 

[beautress]

now lake is shrouded
from view by Venetian blinds
and a broken heart​

 

[beautress]

pardon the teardrops
of reverie for a soul
whose harvest was joy
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[Mindful]

I used to do these on another forum.

But I've forgotten how.

 

[beautress]

I used to do these on another forum.

But I've forgotten how.

The technical part of haiku is that it has 17 beats distributed on 3 lines. Line 1 has 5 beats. Line 2 has 7 beats. Line 3 has 5 beats. Those who write the best Haiku really don't have to follow any particular path. You know you love it when you see it, Mindful. Back when I first used the internet, I went to the New York Times Forum. It likely was in the late 90s, but I'm not sure. After a few years, the NYT shut down its Forums, likely due to loss in subscriptions for all the hostility the left had toward President George W. Bush, and NYT only had 1 righty on their staff, who was William Safire, if memory serves me correctly. Anyway, the Haiku Forum had one outstanding poster whose names slips me, but I swear he could draw a tear or warm a heart with the way he used those 17 beats. One was something about a swan. He had no equal to that and other postings, and I do not recall him ever bringing politics into any of his verse. He was a purist, and his use of the English language struck a lovely chord, time after time.

 

[beautress]

sunshine on the drapes
frames silently protection
from winter's onset​