first snow . . .
the spider is evicted
from my boot
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Stanford M. Forrester
Stanford M. Forrester is a past president of the Haiku Society of America as well as the editor of bottle rockets: a collection of short verse, which boasts its 14th year in print. Stanford has had poems published in many journals and anthologies worldwide. He perhaps is most proud of his haiku being included in Haiku edited by Peter Washington in the Everyman's Pocket Poetry Series published by Knopf and American Zen: A Gathering of Poets published by Bottomdog Press. In 2004 he took first seat in the 57th Annual Basho Anthology Contest in Ueno, Japan and in 2012, one of his haiku won second place in the International Robert Frost Poetry & Haiku contest. View all posts by Stanford M. Forrester
I get the feeling that the poet has known about the spider for some time, and out of compassion has left it alone. But everything has its time and place. Nice!
Well Stan, maybe Paul Miller is correct, and you
knew about the spider?
A syllable or 2 can be omitted, along with the
ellipses. Gene
Fatal hop step and jump:
a lot of melted snowflakes
in the broken cobweb
first snow
smoothing the cream
on my face
in the winter light-
the remains
of a spider web
another fine poem Stanford.
ed
snowflakes…
so randomly falling
so perfectly fallen
first snowfall, through the window —
laughter of children
at play
–
Poor spider! Great winter haiku though. ;-)
Alan
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