a music festival, a treehouse, a tire swing, hammocks, kids with BB guns, Costco, IKEA, a zoo, a small amusement park, smoke from a forest fire, driving, driving, and more driving
green mountains, snow-capped mountains, foggy mornings, hazy afternoons, clear nights, day drinking, birthdays and anniversaries, a bbq, summer-like heat, spring rains, flowers, flowers, and more flowers
Golden Week, a string of national holidays in Japan at the end of April and beginning of May which are often used for traveling.
This year, instead of taking an extended vacation, my family and I made the most of day trips, which meant a lot of time in the car. As the sole driver, that gave me a lot of time to take in new scenery and turn it into haiku.
Here are the results.
the haze of a hangover
a blackbird
the words Christ has risen
billboard battles
outside the fish market
neighborhood cats
all along the highway
wild wisteria
working in the fields
a time slip
someone else’s misfortune
this time
on a winding valley road
a snowy mountain
I enjoyed all of your haiku
"sirens in the night
someone else’s misfortune
this time"
Always flits across my mind when I hear sirens.....
I rarely think about it, but it’s always true.
The other night, I was walking my toddler outside, trying to get him to fall asleep when a number of rescue vehicles passed very closely through the neighborhood. I couldn’t see them or their flashing lights, just hear them, and the thought came to me, perhaps because my wife was out doing the weekly grocery shopping and I was hoping that the sirens weren’t for her.
I sometimes wonder how I would raise my three kids alone if anything were to happen to her.
Well done! That poem came out really nicely. As I've gotten older I've found that I hate the driving, and driving, and driving even less! It sounds like you had a good time though even if only day trips. I'm at the point now that if I never had to drive long distance ever again I would be happy!
I suppose it would be just as nice to let someone else do the driving, but so long as it’s a car trip I’m going on, I’d just assume be in the driver’s seat. Somehow the time passes more easily for me that way.
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