DVerse Poets Pub (dversepoets.com) is hosting a “form for all” night on the haiku and senryu forms (meaning that they are encouraging participant bloggers to write and post their individual efforts with these forms.) DVerse host, Gay Reiser Cannon also has a wonderful exposition on the differences of the forms.
Haikus are not somehow my favorite form. (I tend towards the wordy.) Still, I had a few old ones (or maybe they are really senryu) that I thought of posting for this event, but, well, they were written in Florida in the springtime, and I am currently in New York in Autumn, and haiku are by their nature rather seasonal. As a result, here are some new ones. These are not truly autumnal, but there were all written today at least, on a commuter train going up the Hudson River.
It was a long train ride so I wrote a lot of variations of each, but will spare you all the experiments.
Looking Out/In
In the train window,
night shades into looking glass;
a stranger peers in.
Brain Trap
Brain flutters against
bone. Firefly in a jar
is mainly thorax.
Like You Somehow
Mountains darker than
nightfall. Your warmth like, and not
like, a sun-licked stone.
P.S. – I’m not sure you should title haikus–it feels a bit like cheating (extra syllables) but I threw those titles in at the last minute. Hope you like them and thanks, as always, for your time and kindness.
ManicDDaily 
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