Renaissance Faire
a knight in armor
hides his cell phone
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Margarita Engle
Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of young adult novels in verse, including The Surrender Tree, which received the first Newbery Honor ever awarded to a Latino. Her most recent book is Hurricane Dancers, the First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck.
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roses on display
how would they look
without the viewfinder
My favorite haiku are the ones which end with a charming ironic twist, of which Margarita’s is such an excellent example.
(But I enjoy the other ones, too)
roses on display
how would they look
without the viewfinder
margarita,
one from the canadian prairie.
o.c. holiday
“prairie days round-up”
a carload of buffalo hunters
pulls into burger king
Boston city streets
pan-handler “works” his corner
leaves via his JAG
computer search –
no hits
for my father’s name
early summer faire—
cottonwood fluffs top off
a muffin cap
My favorite haiku are the ones which end with a charming ironic twist, of which Margarita’s is such an excellent example.
(But I enjoy the other ones, too)
A short call
and an endless response:
the silence
a revision …
summer faire—
cottonwood fluffs dancing atop
a muffin cap
roses on display
how would they look
without the viewfinder
next stop
2721—
the time machine
chill in the air
dawns 3rd day of summer —
i seem older
pass midnight —
awakening to her breathing
my lady faire
Wonderful! So skillfully witty and so today. Thanks for sharing.
leaves of calendar
fall after a day passes
leaving us the past
Lost call-
the perpetrator of the crime
nowhere
i thought the lines of haikus had only 5 and 7 syllables….? apparently not, unless i just can’t count.
georgia, almost 3 years to the date, you can count.
a question of my own, “what does that have to do with a haiku”
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cool night air–
red ember
end of tobacco roll