A String of Haiku

[Mudpaw]

Wow, there's some really enjoyable poetry in this forum. Thanks to all who have shared.

This string of Haiku was written after a recent foraging trip in the West Norfolk Fens...

Looking for Mushrooms

Woody sweet morel
Your children live beneath the
Rotten hollow logs.

Free, wild green apples
Fill a small willow basket
That I wove myself

Ripe round blackberry,
Dangling unfulfilled because
Your thorn may prick me.

Gnarled old oak tree
Grows stubbornly in my path.
I rest in the shade.

S.Reese, 2010

[emmao1111]

I love these - they absolutely sound like a snippet of reality and I love any poetry that is grounded in life - particularly everyday life. To make the ordinary sound extraordinary is a real gift.