Hope you’ll enjoy this ride through a fairly random haiku alphabet – there are a myriad of alternative choices for each letter. If you feel inspired to make your own alphabet, please share the link in the Comments section.
A
deep autumn
the arsenic
at the apple’s core
Melissa Allen, A New Resonance 8 (Red Moon Press, 2013)
home of my ancestors
I download an app
that speaks their language
Ann Magyar, IRIS Magazine Little Haiku Contest winner, 2017
B
so suddenly winter
baby teeth at the bottom
of the jar
Carolyn Hall, The Heron’s Nest 7.1, 2005
Baskin-Robbins
we sample new
baby names
Susan Burch, Betty Drevniok Haiku Award, 2018
C
crematorium
today my son weighs the same
as when he was born
David J Kelly, Modern Haiku 48.3, 2017
gatecrashing
into the church hymn
wall gecko
Anthony Itopa Obaro, Yamadera Basho Memorial Haiku Contest, 2017
breath, a collection of haiku 