Like to write? Here’s your chance to share your creative side. Every third Thursday of the month in Artifacts, local writer and psychologist Steve Brody will be editing “SLO Haiku,” a column of haiku submitted by folks in the community.
Send your haiku to stevebrody@wildblue.net, and maybe yours will be in the next edition.
The first three are recent submissions from local writers. The rest are Steve’s.
A leaf doesn’t wait:
It sings as it turns golden,
Laughs at winter’s wind.
John Woods, SLO
Lovely trees crumble
Whispers in song’s light waking
Leaves whistling. Running.
Jeanne Gatz, Los Osos
Cold winter evening
Stream rushes before dawn
Deep dreams of summer
Mark Eckert, SLO
A tightly wound mind
Is driven to distraction:
Better to unwind.
How do leaves know
After months of
holding on
The time to let go?
Putting out false flames,
My autoimmune disease
Needs faith not fear—Breathe!
How to be happy:
Ease up on how you relate
To how you’re feeling.
Haiku are short poems composed of five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five again in the third. Send yours. ∆
—Steve Brody
This article appears in Jan 20-27, 2011.