Friday, 1 April 2016

Poetry Blog No 145 Autumn Town Five Haiku


AUTUMN TOWN Five Haiku

Written on a stroll in the town of Lismore NSW Australia in late March (first month of autumn in southern hemisphere). Photos on cheap phone at same time- felt "snapshots" suited haiku better as they are "snapshots" in words in some ways. On the other hand, the virtue of the haiku is it tends to make you try to sense or intuit a sense of the deeper side of the everyday moment while at the same time (due to its small form) forcing you to choose your words with great precision and no "waste".


AUTUMN TOWN 
 
Five Haiku





ONE

Autumn town. Cars drive.
People walk. Low north cloud builds
Curves. Blue sky calm-shines.





TWO

On road by park, cars
Growl by. In autumn earth two
Palms grow silently.





THREE

Shopping mall. Tiled floor.
White ceiling. Lights. No windows.
No day. No season.





 FOUR

Autumn garden low.
High frozen church forms pray to
Endless autumn sky.





FIVE
Back alley. On gray
Brick wall a small fern lifts leaves-
Drinks in autumn sun.


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