Breakfast Haiku

Last Updated: December 9th, 2025

The jackdaws come

Every morning early

Near my table.

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5 Comments

Phil August 1, 2016 at 11:07 amLog in to Reply

How about?

Clouds that hover overhead
Sometimes bear raindrops
Or uncover light

Phil
- bwinbolt August 5, 2016 at 4:03 pmLog in to Reply
  
  Love it, Haiku Phil!
  - Phil August 5, 2016 at 4:29 pmLog in to Reply
    
    Glad you like the haiku. Here’s one I wrote on the train (happily delayed) last night:
    
    Train travels to its station
    Sitting safely here
    But not my destination
    
    Unusually for haiku, it has a rhythm but atypically it’s not about nature other than human nature.
Phil August 5, 2016 at 4:29 pmLog in to Reply

…for ‘rhythm’ read ‘rhyme’.
Phil September 12, 2016 at 8:53 pmLog in to Reply

Light shining in the darkness
Illuminates it
Also casting shadow there

The garden here silences
All thought of discord
Silencing all thought

Sounds of the sea are recalled
In the conch-shell of
Memory if listening

Are we just crazy for haiku?

Phil