Haiku
A Japanese poem. A contracted form of haikai no ku ‘light verse’. It has seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
After some head scratching, nail biting and pondering I decided to scribble some poetry and show it to the cyber world. So here are my three haiku and motherhood inspired poems.
Dummy in my shoe
Far away, a baby cries
Pink cherry blossom
Child’s hand in mine
Two shadows on the pavement
Seven seagulls shriek
Water splish-splash
Evening bath – silver laugh
Cross car horn outside
Poetry & Pandemonium 
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That was really good, and I love the illustrations too! X.
Thanks – good old doodle app 😉 x
great! I like the last one best love ‘silver laugh’ x
Thank you 🙂 x
Some lovely lines in this, I liked the cherry blossom and the silver laugh. I remember doing these in primary school, might have to give it another go.
Thank you, I really enjoyed writing these – a perfect format for a busy parent!
Beautiful! My favourite is the middle one, with the two shadows on the pavement.
Thank you! x
I love these! My favourite is the last one and that crass car horn – we’ve all been there, baby just put down and we freeze as a crass horn blares, or lorry reverses or train hoots its horn! Love it x
Thank you 🙂 I know, we have a very noisy dog next door always barking at the same time at night argh…the car horns can drive me mad sometimes too – I would ban them. Hell hath no fury like a mother scorned!x
Oh I love silver laugh – that paints such a lovely picture for me x
Thank you 🙂 x
I loved all of them but I especially loved the bath time one. These are fab xx
Thank you – glad you enjoyed them 🙂 x
These are all great. I particularly loved the last one. I think it’s fantastic that people are trying out different types of poetry. Thank you for linking to Prose For Thought xx
Thanks Vic – I have really enjoyed reading other poems and look forward to posting more haiku 🙂 x
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