'Haiku for the Road' is a facebook group I've been part of for some years. I've decided to start cross-posting my efforts here. An anthology is soon to be published, which will include some of my earlier ones, as well as many other people's.
always
the road beckons
further
storm days –
roads impassable
again
*
still don’t see
the end of the road, but
it narrows
Both written 25 February 2024, but posting delayed until NaHaiWriMo 2024 finished.
'Haiku for the Road' is a facebook group administered by Tad Wojnicki – inspired by Jack Kerouac, and also encompassing 'the road of life.'
(1)
I was taught:
try to put yourself
in their shoes
(2)
thinking
how they'd feel turns me
vegan
GRATITUDE
(1)
grateful
for friends who love me
anyway
(2)
memory –
garden after rain
mass birdsong
YANKEE
(1)
Aussie child, I sang
with no clue what it meant
Yankee Doodle
*
always wondered
why he named his pony
after pasta
(2)
here
we call all Americans
Yanks
VICTOR
(1)
to the victor –
a landscape of rubble
hospitals wrecked …
(2)
spoils of war –
surviving children grow
new terrorists
(3)
the victor –
a planet with no more
people
NOVEMBER
(1)
I love being
deep and sensual
Scorpio
(2)
I hear that song
the 12th of never
as my birthday
friendship at first sight –
Michael nicknamed Mick tells me
‘You can call me Mike.’
LIMA
(1)
oh, Lima! –
where the locals ate
such warm smiles
(2)
comes to say g’day –
Aussie nun long in Lima
hears our home accents
INDIA
(1)
dreams of India
hearing old family tales –
but I loved Nepal
(2)
teenage reading
swooning to Kashmiri Song –
by English poet
HOTEL
(1)
Christmas Eve
hotel staff disappear
drunks rule
(2)
outback pub
sign NoThongs Allowed –
blokes in singlets
