NaHaiWriMo 2019 week 4

NaHaiWriMo 2019 week 4

The final week of this year's NaHaiWriMo month.

I found the prompts this year difficult to use to attempt true haiku. (If these succeed at all, I'd call them senryu.) I'd sooner take my inspiration from the natural world around me. But NaHaiWriMo aims to inspire a daily haiku habit, and in that respect succeeded with me, by showing me how I prefer to approach haiku and that I would like to do so, if not daily at least a lot more often.


#22 nearsightedness

labelled a snob –

until I get glasses

and see who’s who

#23 casserole

recipe  says 

cast iron dish –

my cauldron?

#24 school play

stumbling infants  

brilliant on stage

by senior year

#25 hair brushing

100 strokes 

night and morning …

the aunties lied

#26 bank account balance

pension day –

bills and groceries

balance zero

#27 canned meat

canned meat –

I turn

vegetarian

#28 school principal

Years later, ‘Look! it’s

Mr Wilson.’ Vague-eyed

he lifts his hat. 

To be shared with Poets United's Poetry Pantry #442.