Haiku Collection 1

1 ACT OF GOD

Natural causes

Accident catastrophe

Beyond our control.

2 ADAM

First man of this earth

He who never walks alone

Father of our sins.

3 AGE

How long must I live?

Peculiar existence

Pain, pleasure, penance.

4 AIR

Want to walk on you

There but never to be seen

Happy, sad but true.

5 ALP

The sky invites you

Bring your white, brown, green basket

Rich with morning dew.

6 AMAZON

Water everywhere

Strength is borne of a woman

A beauty beware.

7 ANGEL

Can’t you be human?

Send us word of your goodness

Share your loveliness.

8 ANTIQUE

The past at present

Pretty precious of mind

Longer you shall live.

9 ANXIETY

From intelligence

Married to misguided man

Be gone with yourself.

10 ARIA

Come only to me

Who is longing and lonely

Play your melody.

11 AROMA

Cardamom, saffron

Oil of virgin coconut

Dad’s homemade bacon.

12 ART

The creative you

Use your imagination

Perhaps what is new.

13 ASIA

Oman, Korea

Lands of Rajasthan

Catholic mania.

14 AUTHOR

Pen of my desire

Set my talent afire

Reveal your genius.

15 AUTUMN

Green, yellow, and red

Mother’s rebellious third child

Lend us your paintbrush.

16 BAIT

Why do we torment?

Dogs set on poor animals

Only Man is such

17 BALANCE

Look around to see

Ambitious? Greedy? Progress?

We are too many.

18 BANG

When the world began

A selfish thrill of pleasure

A gun. Children die.

19 BATTLE

Fight what all men do

Selfish. Bloody. Wordy. Loud.

No one really wins.

20 BE

I am You are He

Become, exist, remain You

Be in favour. You.

21 BEAST

Wild, savage, brutal

A four-legged animal

What or who is it?

22 BEAUTY

Delight the senses

Physical loveliness is

What exalts the mind.

23 BELIEVE

Accept as true when

Power to make things happen

Is real not Eden.

24 BEST

One’s best is effort

At its greatest, not because

One is the winner.

25 BIGOT

In the middle of

Modern immorality

I have my beliefs.

26 BLACK

Help! I cannot see

Light is my positive guide

Dark is my weak soul.

27 BLIND

How funny it is

I have four eyes on me

Yet I am clumsy.

28 BLOOD

What of it? It’s red.

It has done me no favour.

I take care of me.

29 BLUE

To my cloudless sky

It brings a smile to my face

For there is no storm.

30 BODY

Prison of all souls

Weakness to end in decay

Only then freedom.