Haiku Quotes

I preserve my worldin journals so my children can eat without me

If I had the knackI'd sing likeCherry flakes falling

Little old laidesspeed away in their wheel chairs,frightened meals on wheels.

Beth from accountingis just sitting in her careating spaghetti.

Reading haiku is like viewing a photograph or a painting. A haiku is a moment of time, isolated, and held up for viewing.

Anyone can talk, but to listen is a gift, we should all exchange

J. Benson

NEW HAIKUOne breathy vowelmists the glass warming windowpanes crystalled with snowRobin Glasser

Tidal waves surge forward,And in their wake, tttStale water is replenished.(Haiku from Chapter Thirty, SHADOWWATER)

Snap your fingerstop the world - rain falls harder

Many solemn nights Blond moon, we stand and marvel...Sleeping our noons away

Zero cavities.Two abortions. One divorce.Thirty years on Earth.

Asa Akira

Here is a greedy man who keeps to himselfThe beautiful pears ripe in his garden.

Sorry about thesquishy in your shoe. Must'vebeen something I ate.

What do you mean "Ewww"?How is my tuna breath worsethan peanut butter?

Letmeoutletmeoutletmeoutletmeout.Wait--let me back in!...Letmeinletmeinletmeinletmein.Wait--let me back out!

Your tummy, soft aswarm dough. I knead and knead, thenbake it with a nap.

Dogs have hair. Cats, fur.Dogs whine, yip, howl, bark. Cats purrr.I say: No contest.

Fine. If you insist.I'll try Just.One.Nibble. But--I won't enjoy it.

I explained it loudand clear. What part of "meow"don't you understand?

Some believe they can, Some believe that they cannot. Both are clearly right

J. Benson

Absence of problems does not lead to happiness. Dealing with them does.

J. Benson

The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend to such things. . . . When we are grasping the inexpressible meaning of these things, this is life, this is living. To do this twenty-four hours a day is the Way of Haiku. It is having life more abundantly.

These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage.

Soldiers falling fastBattle of white and scarletBlossoms on the ground

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

Haiku does not express emotion from the inside out by displaying the mind of a character. Haiku builds the emotional thrust, makes the artistic statement from the outside in, from the physical world to the mind of the reader.

I write for pages,get lost in the mezzaninehidden from stages.

Kristen Henderson