Bill Kenney has been writing haiku since a month before his seventy-second birthday. His work has appeared in various online and print publications and anthologies. He is one of the poets featured in A New Resonance 5: Emerging Voices in English Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2007).
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This one really illustrates the common experience normally required to communicate a haiku moment. I live out in the sticks, translate countryside, and there are no red traffic lights out here, not even in my town. So I was wondering, what the hell is that red light – possibly a train? Then Susan’s comment brought me home to reality, and I must now say that this is one terrific haiku.
I’m fond of this one because the red light could be a traffic light, a train signal, a taillight, the red of a sunrise or sunset, or the red light reflected from autumn leaves. And the deserted road could be in the country or in the town. As Georgia said, it’s a rich haiku!
An evocative haiku which can be associated with aging(autumn evening). The road symbolizes (life).The red light means : (stop).So,being an old person, the narrator feels stuck, cann’t go further on the road of life because he’s deserted, lonely. But, this feeling does not go on. The idea of helplessness may flash as the red traffic light and change immediatly.
I enjoyed reading.
This is excellent, Bill.
I really like the twist in this haiku. It’s a good one, Bill.
red
pales in comparison…
the colour of this rose
Well done, Bill
I can feel the heat at there…
Layers of meaning, haunting, beautifully worded.
Thanks.
Hi Bill – many congratulations on this. It’s lovely – full of the silence of the moment.
Best, Lynne
Nice one, Bill. But doesn’t it annoy you? lol That long, long red light . . . and no one in sight.
Mind you, it gave you a moment to think . . . to appreciate the autumn.
red light blinking
on a mist covered road
whispers a secret
I got back from a trip to France on Friday, just in time to find this posted. Thanks, everyone, for your comments and contributions.
Bill
Time to pause and enjoy the autumn colors ;-)
Very nice, Bill!
This one really illustrates the common experience normally required to communicate a haiku moment. I live out in the sticks, translate countryside, and there are no red traffic lights out here, not even in my town. So I was wondering, what the hell is that red light – possibly a train? Then Susan’s comment brought me home to reality, and I must now say that this is one terrific haiku.
I’m fond of this one because the red light could be a traffic light, a train signal, a taillight, the red of a sunrise or sunset, or the red light reflected from autumn leaves. And the deserted road could be in the country or in the town. As Georgia said, it’s a rich haiku!
An evocative haiku which can be associated with aging(autumn evening). The road symbolizes (life).The red light means : (stop).So,being an old person, the narrator feels stuck, cann’t go further on the road of life because he’s deserted, lonely. But, this feeling does not go on. The idea of helplessness may flash as the red traffic light and change immediatly.
I enjoyed reading.
For some reason, I hadn’t red this one until today. I truly enjoyed this one Bill. One of your many classics.
summer tarries–
fall forges ahead, anyway
on path of red leaves