larches

larches
in yellow dresses
rake competing with leaves

October sun

October sun slowly climbing
above the misty clouds
porches in need of winter-clearance


I think my haikus are too long. This one I tried to separate in five lines as if it could rather have been a tanka (though I don't know if that matters in contemporary English tanka) but it didn't work that well. My Finnish poems usually turn into being tankas, and then always written in five lines with exactly the right number of syllables. I still have some studying and practising in writing Japanese style poetry in English and actually I haven't yet practised a lot...

I am not afraid

I am not afraid of water
not anymore
and almost not at all

 

true princesses

do true princesses
respect window sills
or conquer them like mine

 

today by the river

what else is needed
than a cherished place
where eyes rest

 

Scotch rose

          promises in buds
          in fields and in dreams
          reaching the skies

 

Scotch rose Rosa pimpinellifolia 'Plena'

lazy morning

lazy morning
stayed until
afternoon was ripe




I wonder if this is a haiku. I should probably study English haiku and tanka writing as well as English syllables to know... I already learnt that the counting of syllables is not that strict in English tanka and haiku writing.

Edit. 09/06/09. I have edited this poem twice and taken off "useless" words.