Some New Haiku….

(Summer Dusk, oil, Jane Kohut-Bartels, 2010)

I struggle with this form, and this weekend just decided to write something from direct observation.  Little thought behind this, more eyes than anything else.  I know I violate much in proper haiku form but that will come with study.  It’s summer and haiku seems the perfect literary form to use.

Lady Nyo

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Summer storms threaten

Gun metal skies become pitch

Birds shelter in place

 

The air sullen, heavy

I sense the rain being born

Grass rises to drink

 

Two hawks look over

Penned chickens awaiting Fate

Dogs too hot to chase

 

Dark skies are heavy

My bones answer with dull pain

The sins of aging

 

Black storms gather

A blessing of rain to come

Thunder rattles glass

 

A murder of crows

Watch a cat passing beneath

Suddenly alarmed.

 

Autumn evening

The wind whips up fallen leaves

Scattering the quilts

 

Ho! The ice cream truck!

Children swarm, a plague of locust

A child without cash

 

Summer night brightens

Stars whisper to each other

More than grains of sand.

 

The soil our bed

Our classrooms and our graves.

reborn to the world.

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Jane Kohut-Bartels

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