Haiku Archives - The Smoky Poet

Will You Visit Me?

By The Smoky Poet on February 26, 2019

One day you’ll visitFlowers placed upon my graveA sunny mourning Today’s haiku is from the Baffled haiku challenge on Twitter. The haiku challenge was to write any haiku using the word visit. What happens when you go to visit someone and they are no longer there, either physically or spiritually? Perhaps you are in the […]

Shall We Play?

By The Smoky Poet on February 26, 2019

The school yard playgroundWe would all play togetherUnited by sun Today’s haiku from from the Baffled haiku challenge on Twitter. The haiku challenge was to write any haiku using the word play. I remember from my childhood that it was always so easy to make new friends on the school yard playground. We all got […]

I Perform For No One

By The Smoky Poet on February 19, 2019

A cunning linguistIn a world performs aloneAn owl hoots who Today’s haiku was from the Baffled haiku challenge on Twitter. The haiku challenge was to write any haiku using the word perform. In life, we perform all the time. Sometimes we can exceed expectations. Sometimes we fail. Other times there is no one to watch […]

Will We Meet Again?

By The Smoky Poet on February 19, 2019

’til we meet againThe days are growing longerA blue jay returns Today’s haiku was from the Baffled haiku challenge on Twitter. The haiku challenge was to write any haiku using the word meet. With another pending snow storm coming in, I cannot wait for the return of Spring and the return of the birds to […]

Time To Take A Shower

By The Smoky Poet on February 11, 2019

On my face snowflakesA warm, hot and long shower.Wash off the sadness Today’s haiku is from the Baffled haiku challenge on Twitter. The challenge word for today was to write any haiku using the word “shower.” Photo source: unsplash-logoTeddy Kelley

Back In Time

By The Smoky Poet on February 6, 2019

Rewind to last week.No steps forward two steps back.A snow covered path. Today’s haiku was for the Baffled Haiku Challenge. The challenge word of the day was to write any haiku with the word back included. Photo source: Samuel Zeller

You Cannot Bargain With Love

By The Smoky Poet on February 5, 2019

What’s the price of love?Love is never a bargain.Expensive lesson. Today’s haiku is from the Baffled haiku challenge in which you are to write any haiku with the word bargain. Photo Source: Fancycrave

To Balance On Both Feet

By The Smoky Poet on January 10, 2019

I’m always falling.Sometimes I am balanced.Life’s teeter-totter. Today’s haiku was from the Baffled haiku challenge on Twitter. The word to use for the haiku challenge today was ‘Balance’ and I think I appropriately captured my thoughts.

Today’s Illusion

By The Smoky Poet on August 17, 2018

Goslings

By The Smoky Poet on June 23, 2018

This is a haiku about a family of geese and goslings. Picture was taken on my morning walk.