I love writing and reading haiku, these delicate sculptures of words and images.

For my Sunday blog post Haiku-San I created the hashtag #haikusan. It derives from Haiku, meaning unusual verse in Japanese (hai=unusual, ku=verse, strophe) and San, the honorific Japanese title when speaking about people. San is also the phonetic transcription of the first syllable of the English word Sunday, Sun-day hence Haiku-San.

Here are all the haiku I wrote so far (list updated weekly):

A Partridge in a Pear Tree, 1st Day of Christmas

Five Golden Rings, 5th Day of Christmas

Four Calling Birds, 4th Day of Christmas

Geese-a-Laying, 6th Day of Christmas

Ladies Dancing, 9th Day of Christmas

Life Cycle

Lords-a-Leaping, 10th Day of Christmas

Maids-a-Milking, 8th Day of Christmas

Swans-a-Swimming, 7th Day of Christmas

Three French Hens, 3rd Day of Christmas

Tree

Trick or Treat Night

Turkey, a Thanksgiving haiku

Two Turtle Doves, 2nd Day of Christmas

Umbrage

Vineyard

Enjoy more haiku in my new release Christmas Haiku:

My Haiku Published Online:

The Japan Society Haiku Corner, Week 42:

amid yellow leaves
I let them fly–my dreams
like lurid ghosts
(Patricia Furstenberg)

The Japan Society Haiku Corner, Week 33:

old wooden door
like a pining widow
hugged by sunset - haiku Patricia Furstenberg

The Japan Society Haiku Corner, Week 34

hushed September sun
driving a lily carriage
Lilibet is gone

Patricia Furstenberg, haiku

The Haiku Foundation:
“Some of the repetition poems stood out for their musicality. It’s hard not to read the following haiku without singing the words, or pronouncing them in one specific rhythm:
snowflake floats
snowflake swirls
still snowfall

Patricia Furstenberg
Pretoria, South Africa

a haiku by Patricia Furstenberg, The Haiku Foundation

An autumn haiku on Scarlet Dragonfly, A Daily Journal of Japanese Short-Form Poetry:

autumn haiku Patricia Furstenberg Scarlet Dragonfly Journal

You can read poetry and haiku in my book As Good AS Gold:

“What I really liked about the book is that it is seen through the eyes of a dog but there isn’t an attempt to make every poem sentimental about it being man’s best friend.” (5*, Peter, Amazon TOP 1000 Reviewer)

“I thoroughly enjoyed As Good As Gold. The photographs of the dogs that accompany the poems are adorable, and striking. They add another depth to the words, which I thought was beautiful.” (Jessica, 5* Amazon review)

As Good As Gold is also available in e-book, paperback and Large Print, colorful pictures, a dyslexia friendly edition: get it on Amazon UK, Amazon US

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