I have enjoyed writing the haiku’s, so I thought I would stretch my self a little more and write a Tanka or two. Here’s the first:
Rejection.
“I love you deeply”,
His tremulous voice withers.
She shrugs, turns and leaves.
Her silhouette melds into
The horizon as she walks.
It’s that time of year.
The blinding sun seems lower
And narrows the eye.
– John Nixon 2007
Rising and falling,
The fierce breakers crash against
The sea beaten rocks.
Fiery coloured leaves
Dance to the tune of the wind
In haphazard twists.
Autumn is here, an
Inspiration to poets
Owed to the west wind.
— John Nixon 2007.
A haiku is a Japanese lyric form which encapsulates a single impression of a natural object or scene in seventeen syllables arranged in three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Writing a haiku every day trains your attention and your ability to capture a moment in a succinct form. So here is the first of my daily haiku:
Seagulls mocking call
Draws you to a pale blue sky.
I smile and wonder …
— John Nixon 2007.
