Responding to Your Community Through Haiku

Summer night:
in my eyes starlight
hundreds of years old

George Swedeⁱ

autumn salmon
the flipping leaping
one I catch

Kaneko Totaⁱⁱ

well! Let's go
snow viewing till
we tumble!

Matsuo Bashoⁱⁱⁱ

coffee
in a paper cup -
a long way from home

Gary Hotham^iv

A Hallowe'en mask
        floating face up in the ditch,
                slowly shakes it head.

                        Clement Hoyt^v

fog...
just the tree and I
at the bus stop

Jerry Kilbride^vi

dead cat...
opened mouth
to the pouring rain.

Micheal McClintock^vii

in the moonlight
a worm
silently drills through a chesnut.

Matsuo Basho^viii

ⁱ Higginson, pg.215
ⁱⁱ ibid pg 41
ⁱⁱⁱ http://www.haiku.insouthsea.co.uk/
^iv Cor Van Den Heuvel, The Haiku Anthology. (WW Norton and Co, NY 1999)
^v Higginson, pg 169
^vi Van Den Huevel, pg 121
^vii http://www.haiku.insouthsea.co.uk/
^viii Higginson, pg.175