! Haiku For David Poem by Michael Shepherd

! Haiku For David

Rating: 2.8


This autumn evening
my haiku speaks of sadness
yet the bare trees smile

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Alison Cassidy 07 February 2008

Japanese irony - a perfect inkbrush study. love, Allie ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

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Michael Shepherd 10 October 2007

The rules according to one Grand Master [Western Chapter] say that a haiku should contain a recognition of the season and the time of day, and an implicit paradox which reveals the nature of nature (here, human v. growth cycle...) . Now, I've got the ink-block, brush and paper - who brought the wine?

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David Taylor 10 October 2007

Counting on your smile my senryu expresses thanks a branch of poetry?

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