Summer Haiku
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daisies drop their heads
I hop across the concrete
spraying cool rainbows
I hop across the concrete
spraying cool rainbows
bee buzzes home
I sway in the hammock
going nowhere
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lsteinglass
lsteinglass2012-06-22 10:51:002012-06-22 10:51:00Summer Haiku
I sway in the hammock
going nowhere
between the rows of lettuces
plastic corn snakes wait
plastic corn snakes wait
cracked earth at my feet
rushing streams of sweet pink juice
drip from my elbows
rushing streams of sweet pink juice
drip from my elbows
© 2012 Elizabeth Ehrenfest Steinglass, all rights reserved
My younger kids have been home this week, so I thought I’d return to haiku, imagining, foolishly, that they would take less time. Instead I’ve spent stolen hours on poems of just three (or two) lines, thinking about syllables, resonating images, verb tenses, personal pronouns, punctuation, nature, human nature, summer, and childhood. The more I read haiku and read about haiku the more I am awed by all they can do in just seventeen (or fewer) syllables.
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You’re after my haiku heart today, Liz! Thanks for sharing these spritzes of summer. I really like “I sway in the hammock/going nowhere” and those plastic snakes at the ready in the garden….
Those plastic snakes are taken directly from my mom’s garden!
Delightful summer sampler of haiku. Enjoyed them all, but the hammock is my favorite :).
And with those stolen hours, you wrote them so beautifully. Just summer with the hammock and the hop across the concrete-yes, we do! Thank you.
Terrific use of those stolen moments. Lovely taste of summer.
Oh the images here are dead on! It is astounding how much can be said with such few words…if you choose the right words! Thank you for these, Liz.
Thanks to all for stopping by and commenting. We’ve just had a raging summer storm–a part of summer I’ve neglected here but will try to put into words tomorrow.
There is something singular about the grainy, sugary pink-transparent juice of watermelon running down your wrists and dripping off your elbows.
See you Monday, perhaps with my own watermelon haiku (and no damn rubric).