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Haiku for the twelve months of the year from around the world. |
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Haiku for the twelve months of the year from around the world. |
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Poet:
Debra Woolard Bender
Region:
Central Florida, |
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JANUARY Sky |
furnace empty the house gives up its heat to distant Mensa Mensa is a constellation. |
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FEBRUARY Death |
mossy headstones by the church another day closer to God |
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MARCH Flight |
kites tugging children along the shoreline suntanned fishermen |
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APRIL Flowers |
what night is this? all stars have disappeared in honeysuckle |
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MAY Land |
is it the scent of grass or the dark of night so sweet so thick |
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JUNE New Life |
moonless night a cereus cactus opens white solstice blooms |
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JULY Animals |
yeowling done the calico cat spreads into a spot of sun |
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AUGUST Time |
heat intensifies dragonflies hovering between seasons |
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SEPTEMBER Water |
mid-autumn a comb through wet tangles lengthens the hair slightly |
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OCTOBER Loss |
while counting breaths or not counting cockscombs poets come and go |
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NOVEMBER Aquatic Life |
what has he found I wonder? my little savior of earthbound starfish |
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DECEMBER Family |
shoes of mother's shadow move two thousand miles through deeper snow |
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