Haiku Friday

Hosted by Janice at It's a Jan's Life.

I write haiku in the Japanese tradition, not counting syllables or always restricting them to a three line form.

Haiku are about images and the five senses, they do not use the poetic devices of Western literature. Read them very slowly, one line at a time, and do not think with your mind, but visualize and engage all your other physical senses. Enjoy.

Three more of my haiku that were chosen for The Herb Barrett Award anthology Through the Spirea (1998) edited by Michael Dylan Welch:


in the long grass
of the old orchard
surveyor's stakes


and these two recieved Honourable Mention:


winter moonlight
the music box plays
all by itself


midnight rain
the vacancy sign
is turned off


My giveaway of two copies of a The Tree It Was (2002), a 16 page chapbook of my own haiku is still open to followers of my blog. Winners will be announced in this column next week. Rules and entry are here.

*All of the poetry on this page is copyrighted by Sandra Fuhringer and may not be used without permission from the author.