mastodon 4.5.18Follow my attempt, begun on Jan 1, 2022, to write one haiku a day.
I previously did this for five years, from mid 2010 to 2015, and I started again in 2022. Will I manage to keep it up for five years again? Let's find out.
I'm Freeman Ng, the author of BASHO'S HAIKU JOURNEYS, a haiku picture book. (https://www.BashoPB.com)
empty field
stars filling the night
with silence
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on Dec 5, 2023.
chasing some car
already out of sight
a rolling hubcap
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s haiku was originally posted on May 2, 2013.
crescent moon
ancient worlds playing
peekaboo
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on Aug 25, 2023.
the street lights
worn and familiar
as the trees
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on Feb 23, 2012.
the photographer
walking along any street
aware of the light
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s 5-7-5 haiku was originally posted on Feb 10, 2023.
on the bay
like conflicting thoughts
the taut sails
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on Apr 28, 2014.
that time we could see
across a sudden landscape
the coming rain front
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng, author of THE HOUSE WE SHELTERED IN AND THE MASKS WE WORE, a pandemic picture book (https://www.PandemicPB.com), and BRIDGE ACROSS THE SKY, an Angel Island verse novel (https://www.AngelIslandNovel.com).
Today’s 5-7-5 haiku was originally posted on Feb 18, 2023.
the sky
and I, letting go
of day
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s haiku was originally posted on Oct 5, 2022
the morning's first sight
the big blue eye of the sky
willing me to wake
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s 5-7-5 haiku was originally posted on Feb 5, 2023.
on the bamboo
the long day's
finale
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s haiku was originally posted on Jul 8, 2015.
constellated night
are there names
for the gaps?
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s haiku was originally posted on Jun 17, 2022
morning light
the undulant dunes
of my sheets
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on Jul 1, 2022.
car roof thump
then down the windshield
trots the cat
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on Jun 28, 2013.
slipping
between my fingers
the light
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s haiku was originally posted on Oct 9, 2023
homeless man
wearing on his coat
a flag pin
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on Jul 6, 2013.
how stray thoughts
led to my grimace
on the zoom
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on Apr 2, 2023.
bright day, cold and clear
pigeons on their power lines
the wisps of the clouds
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s 5-7-5 haiku was originally posted on Nov 27, 2010.
owl haiku
asking as always
who I am
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on Mar 10, 2022.
hooting owl
seeking admittance
to my dreams
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng, author of BRIDGE ACROSS THE SKY, an Angel Island verse novel (https://www.AngelIslandNovel.com), and THE SHAPE A WING MAKES, poems by Fran Claggett-Holland paired with digital art by Freeman Ng (https://www.AuthorFreeman.com/shape).
Today’s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on Feb 12, 2022.
beach doze
lulled by the snoring
of the ocean
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng, author of THE SHAPE A WING MAKES, poems by Fran Claggett-Holland paired with digital art by Freeman Ng (https://www.AuthorFreeman.com/shape).
Today’s haiku was originally posted on Jul 29, 2012.
above the din
of construction
summer clouds
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s haiku was originally posted on Jun 27, 2023
listening
to hail, ancient oak
of my self
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on May 10, 2024 and is a 3-5-3 rendition of a Basho haiku.
trying to deduce
the adjacent table's
politics
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s haiku was originally posted on Feb 7, 2024
the dry well
containing not a drop
of poetry
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s haiku was originally posted on Mar 4, 2024
unshaken
by howling night winds
moon petal
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng, author of THE SHAPE A WING MAKES, poems by Fran Claggett-Holland paired with digital art by Freeman Ng (https://www.AuthorFreeman.com/shape), and THE HOUSE WE SHELTERED IN AND THE MASKS WE WORE, a pandemic picture book (https://www.PandemicPB.com).
Today’s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on Jun 21, 2023.
palm fronds
above the city center
lit from below
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s haiku was originally posted on Sep 5, 2023
looked up to find out
what squawked and flapped off: only
the still swaying branch
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s 5-7-5 haiku was originally posted on Aug 20, 2010.
apple trees
in blossom like clouds
heavy with rain
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng, author of THE HOUSE WE SHELTERED IN AND THE MASKS WE WORE, a pandemic picture book (https://www.PandemicPB.com), and THE SHAPE A WING MAKES, poems by Fran Claggett-Holland paired with digital art by Freeman Ng (https://www.AuthorFreeman.com/shape).
Today’s haiku was originally posted on Jul 21, 2022
when I was a child
the pulsating horns of snails
were well known to me
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s 5-7-5 haiku was originally posted on Jul 3, 2014.
recalling
a black and white world
old photo
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on Aug 19, 2023.
my day
before and after
I heard the crow caw
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s haiku was originally posted on Jun 4, 2022
distant and close
the moan of the train
in the story
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s haiku was originally posted on Mar 19, 2024
post haircut
some complexities
clarified
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on Mar 18, 2023.
the distant sound
of the unseen waterfall
slaking my thirst
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s haiku was originally posted on May 31, 2023
the old well
crowned by an aura
of mayflies
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on Apr 28, 2022.
circling, circling
a speck against blue
the hawk's hunger
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s haiku was originally posted on Nov 14, 2010.
my shadow follows me
around the room, beats me
into chairs
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng, author of THE SHAPE A WING MAKES, poems by Fran Claggett-Holland paired with digital art by Freeman Ng (https://www.AuthorFreeman.com/shape).
Today’s haiku was originally posted on Aug 7, 2010.
the willow
in driest summer
dripping leaves
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on Jul 26, 2011.
along the beach's dark fringe
advancing and receding
the sandpipers
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s haiku was originally posted on Mar 10, 2013.
on the trashcan
discarded in plain sight
someone's diary
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s haiku was originally posted on Oct 7, 2014.
city hedge
one untrimmed branch strains
to touch us
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on Apr 20, 2012.
in a gust
shaking off the dew
the willow
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng, author of HAIKU STORY:
a tale of conflict
and reconciliation
in 5-7-5
https://www.HaikuDiem.com/story
Today’s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on Jun 7, 2023
fireworks completed
livid smoke clears from the sky
revealing the stars
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s 5-7-5 haiku was originally posted on Jul 5, 2011.
on all surfaces
the dust
that was us
#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng. Today’s haiku was originally posted on Feb 9, 2013.
