#Haiku Happenings #4: Kim Russell’s latest haiku sequence for #dVersePoets #MTB!
no dawn chorus
rising later every day
sunflowers
ripe wheat
unmoving in the field
a splash of poppies
brittle with heat
leaves already yellow
awaiting release
scarecrow silhouette
leaning west towards the sun
redundancy
silent blackbirds
in their annual moult
counting feathers
Kim M. Russell, 30th July 2020
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Meeting the Bar: Haiku Sequence
Frank T. is our host for today’s Meeting the Bar, where we take a deep dive into poetic craft. He says that many of us have written haibun for Haibun Monday prompts, which also means that we have written haiku. He would like us to try writing multiple haiku that express a similar theme or montage of images in haiku sequences. He has shared an explanation of the form and a four-haiku sequence by Michael Dylan Welch, together with a longer sequence by Adelaide B. Shaw, as examples.
Each sequence…
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