haiku 4 ~ rules of haiku

when you speak haiku.
first use five, then use seven
then use five again


syllables

haiku 3 ~ cloud and fog the same

cloud on ground is fog.
fog in the sky is a cloud.
high or low, the same.

this haiku has been memorialized in the Glass Museum in Tacoma Washington by the co-writer. It now exists on a scroll of haikus submitted by museum visitors.

haiku 2 ~ happy birthday

this was the perfect birthday card.

it's the perfect haiku 2!

haiku 1 ~ one shoe in the road

I have this curiosity about how a single show winds up in the middle of the road in the most random of places. I can't help but wonder how it came to be there. I've shared this with several friends and have asked what they thought. Funny, the theories people have when they consider the question.

One of my friends said..."Maybe it happens when two people in a car are arguing, and one of them pulls of their shoe to whap the other one with, and in the scuffle, it fell out of the window."

WHAT??? Do people really take off their shoes to hit somebody else with?

I'm still puzzled and entertained with the thoughts about how these lone shoes made it there. I wrote a haiku about it, it's one of my favorites. This is why it is ~ haiku 1

dear shoe in the road,
how the hell did you get there?
i often wonder.