Found haiku 2026

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everybody needs a rock

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Found Haiku, December 2024

 

many doors have closed

some faerie have withdrawn —

they left with the woods

Found in Enchantment of the Faerie Realm byTed Andrews

tawny tiger —

my cat in the dark

with eyes of light

Found in my own 12-line poem Feline, published in the collaborative collection She Too, CXD, 2014 (also to be found on an earlier blog, if you click the link).

the scuffing 

of schoolboy shoes on gravel

breaking the silence

Article on the town of Mt Pleasant in The Australian Women’s Weekly February 2024.

first day of school —

one child after another

setting off

From the ‘Family Matters’ column by Pat McDermott in The Australian Women’s Weekly February 2024.

 

Warning

warning —

fairies live here

(Neighbourhood Watch)

from my front window

Beautiful Words (found haiku)

Beautiful Words 

(found haiku)

searching for fireflies

the first dream of the new year –

the moon freezes

plants are sprouting

under last year’s dried grass

or under snow

clouds 

predict good fortune –

green shadows

sunlight filtering

through green leaves –

buried fire

Found haiku written in response to Weekly Scribblings #53: Beautiful Words at Poets and Storytellers United – using, rearranging, recombining, and occasionally slightly altering (by additions or omissions) the phrases in Rommy's prompt:

For this week’s prompt, I’ve selected a few poetic names from Bruce Hamana Sosei’s book, 100 Beautiful Words in The Way of Tea. Pick the English version of one (or more if the mood hits you) to shape your words around.

Zuiun – clouds that predict good fortune

Shitamoe – plants sprouting under last year’s dried grass or under the snow

Hatsuyume – the first dream of the new year

Uzumibi – buried fire

Ryokuin – green shadows (sunlight filtering through green leaves)

Hotaru-gari – go searching for fireflies

Tsuki-koru – the moon freezes