More Haikus and Tankas

NB. All of these have appeared on my facebook feed over the past week or so.

A HAIKU AND A TANKA ABOUT CATS AND KITTENS

(I)

Reflected in love
Love shines beyond words in us
Looking at the rain.

(II)

Counting the raindrops
The Kitten taps the window
In a soft flurry
Following your piano
Duetting by the soft rain

SAILING THE STORMS HOME 

Restless on the sea
The storms rage higher, higher
And with it your hopes.

A FREAK OF NATURE 

skipping over roofs
the rain misses our garden
and only soaks theirs

INVISIBLE LOVE 

Even at midnight
The waves climb the barriers
Reaching to the stars

LOST IN A FOREST IN PITCH DARKNESS AT MIDNIGHT

slowed down to silence
at midnight in the forest
even the birds sleep

MOVING FROM ONE FORM TO THE OTHER 

counting syllables
if you add a few more words
a haiku could be
easily be a tanka
or possibly a sonnet

MOVING ONE TO A NEW CHALLENGE 

When closing one door
another always opens
until it doesn’t.

CHILDHOOD

Like a old bus tick-
et my childhood is lost
in another life.

SUFFERING IN THE HEAT 

Fumbling for change
an elderly man tuts im-
patient in the heat.

THE MORE YOU WAIT 

Trembling under
the bridge, your arms get heav-
ier the more you wait.

TANKA FOR NATIONAL EXPRESS 

Leaving us stranded
We take refuge in the bus
Station no where near home
When national express lets us
Down for the second time today.

HAIKU FOR NATIONAL EXPRESS

Translucent, your mood
gets worse the more late you
are told your coach is.

CHANGING SCENES

Yesterday the light-
ening was in the east but now
Is instead the west
Devoured by the horizons
And the plum scented breeze.