I've been writing haiku with Mary Lee all week.
"Thin Place"
“For ancient Celts,
certain geography was seen as sacred because the distance between the human and
the divine felt particularly thin. God was near in that place."
From the URBAN SKYE advent devotional
From the URBAN SKYE advent devotional
I read poetry
Sky thins, holy tiptoes in
soul eyes see clearly.
(c) Carol Wilcox, 2014
"morning drive"
"morning drive"
grey white cloud
blanket
sleeps atop mountains
waiting
for sun’s wake up
call
(c) Carol Wilcox, 2014
Dawn’s dark lifts mornings
curtain to pink yellow
orange
hallelujah sky
(c) Carol Wilcox, 2014
“morning"
Sun’s sure chariot
pulls new possibilities
over horizon
(c) Carol Wilcox, 2014
(c) Carol Wilcox, 2014
"Conflict”
OR "mother to son (with apologies to Langston Hughes)
we heave brick after
brick ‘til wall
between us is
impenetrable
“Colorado Winter”
(a double haiku)
Saturday I peel
off sweatshirt stride joyfully
four miles behind dog
Sunday dog drags me
shivering in coat hat gloves
mile of misery
(c) Carol Wilcox, 2014
(a double haiku)
Saturday I peel
off sweatshirt stride joyfully
four miles behind dog
Sunday dog drags me
shivering in coat hat gloves
mile of misery
(c) Carol Wilcox, 2014
Anastasia Suen is hosting Poetry Friday today.
8 comments:
You pack so much emotion into your haiku, Carol! Very impressive. I'm right there with you, shivering, seeing the sun, peering over those bricks.
You had me at at that holy tiptoe. Thank you for these! Beautiful!!
Carol, Dawn is good to your poetry muse. Appreciations for sharing these quiet moments at dawns early light, which to be is a clearer, more hopeful time than sunset.
And LH's Mother to Son is one of my favorites - I felt fortunate to read it once to a dinner audience at a benefit for our women's shelter. This post is so perfect for me - thank you.
LOL! Yes, winter has been like that this year!!! :-)
Hallelujah sky...yes, the pictures Linda posts of Denver skies certainly prove this! Lovely collection of haikus.
I'm glad you're sharing these with the world! What a beautiful collection!!
Clearly haiku is rewarding you with more than a book, Carol! These are beautiful, honest, and true. LOVE that "hallelujah sky."
Your double dog haiku is spectacular, along with that "hallelujah sky." Most enjoyable!
Are you committed to sticking with 5-7-5?
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