Haiku Collection 5

120 INTRANSIGENT

Do not compromise

A point of view that is you

That is character

121 INURBANE

City life refines

But what it strictly defines

Isn’t restless me.

122 INVENT

Method to method

Let us seek to contribute

Better to be new.

123 IRIS

Lend me your colors

To brighten all the days

For creative ways.

124 IRONY***

I may as well have

Had a time but I am safe

Daughter of Janus.

125 ISA

Nature shall be kind

When mortals have found the light

A bountiful life.

126 ISLAM

Any religion

Is beautiful but some

Distort its meaning.

127 JINN

Have you so possessed

Muslim minds that they unite

To terrorize us?

128 JUST

What is that when what

Is the law is a two-faced

Joke one cannot judge?

129 KALEIDOSCOPE

The word change is used

By bored men lacking focus

Men who make mistakes.

130 KAMI

Power is sacred

Use it wisely and the world

Shall be at your feet.

131 KARMA

Contamination

Never gets you Nirvana

Run away Desire.

132 KING CRAB

Long ago it walked

On the sands in memory

My blue-blooded friend.

133 KISS

I’m not what I eat

A sweet meringue to lighten

Honey for my passion.

134 KNIGHT-ERRANT

Men these days do not

Travel far but chivalry

Cannot be extinct.

135 KNOWLEDGE

What good would it be

If it were not used nor shared?

Do not be selfish.

136 LABOUR

Where there is hard work

Surely there is good progress

Promise for better.

137 LADY

I cherish the day

A man takes my hand from work

To share my burden.

138 LAKSHMI

Goddess that you are

Le us women serve your court

Of wealth in beauty.

139 LAND

Father of my childhood

My gratitude for orchids,

Spices, sharp senses.

140 LANGUAGE

He talks, then she talks

But can they communicate?

They should not waste time.

141 LANGUID

A melodic term

For the disinterested

Dull useless ingrates.

142 LARIAT

Quite useful to keep

The lose animals in place

Naïve where they go.

143 LARK

Tell me your secret

Little bird where you fly not

Forgetting your song.

144 LAST

The end is always

The beginning of something

Better or better!

145 LATIN

My love, are you real?

Is it impractical to

Ask what is ideal?

146 LAUGH

Oliver the cat

Finds comfort sleeping with my

Stuffed bloodhound Bobby.

147 LAUREL

Rest upon my head

A king’s crown in my honour

A leader to bed.

148 LAW

Beware of customs

That which serve us all too well

May not be correct.

149 LEAP

Into the darkness

In hardship without reason

Though faith I shall have.