What Haiku Hold
What Haiku Hold
I.
To build new school
with a thousand wheelbarrows
near high ceiling lodge.
Dwell in Sierra
foothills of the mountain range
a place to call home.
Mountain blossoms lift
into a stream of cool air
up above the pine.
Edge of a meadow
these are the People’s Forests
where this field closes.
What once was wild place
housing to the horizon
now all landscaped yards.
A moonlit landscape
see nothing but cow pasture
black outline of cow.
II.
Some wet years may pass
some frigid and cold ones too
all some sharp design.
Tan rolling meadow
now dark corners of city
lean places of loss.
Solemn silent sheep
graze upon a darkened hill
stamp and steam in chill.
A forest fire haze
for our children to run through
they look just like us.
Nameless granite peaks
birds circle these western slopes
east along river.
Salmon jump in stream
slightly out of lazy view
hear only a splash.
We are free to be
climb every tree swim in stream
no one can stop you.
Awake after sleep
a refreshing ten hours
after long days walk.
Wind through this high pine
performance of high culture
Nature’s Symphony.
III.
We chose the outdoors
practice for a deep ramble
into a forest.
Today frozen grass
morning before melt away
feeds whatever sprouts.
This vast house of wild
once would roam a seldom Elk
near comfortable tree.
Ordinary poem
small poems will hold so much
told as if alone.
Only this one world
home for the millions of us
Earth’s heavy burden.
What Haiku can hold
braided channels of river
a lonely bird song.
Poems in baskets
where pull ropes heft this bundle
it will keep a hold.
To take on a trail
near black bear eating berries
a hummingbird hums.
Nature not a book
where we live this is the real
wish to live in clouds.
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I do love a good haiku. I like to challenge myself even more to rhyme the 7 syllable lines and the 2 5 syllable lines too. ABA,CBC,DBD, etc… I love your execution and these very nature bound haikus nice work Jamie.
Great expressions of nature create a lovely series of Haiku. Well done Jamie.
Great combination of Haiku here Jamie… well done and very much enjoyed.
An excellent collection of haiku, Jamie.
That’s a lot of haiku, Jamie. I really enjoyed it, especially the nature emphasis with mountains and rivers.
I am happy to read all the wonderful comments from all of you. Thank you and I am appreciative and grateful. Jamie