a music festival, a treehouse, a tire swing, hammocks, kids with BB guns, Costco, IKEA, a zoo, a small amusement park, smoke from a forest fire, driving, driving, and more driving
green mountains, snow-capped mountains, foggy mornings, hazy afternoons, clear nights, day drinking, birthdays and anniversaries, a bbq, summer-like heat, spring rains, flowers, flowers, and more flowers
Golden Week, a string of national holidays in Japan at the end of April and beginning of May which are often used for traveling.
This year, instead of taking an extended vacation, my family and I made the most of day trips, which meant a lot of time in the car. As the sole driver, that gave me a lot of time to take in new scenery and turn it into haiku.
Here are the results.
(1)
swooping through
the haze of a hangover
a blackbird
(2)
next to a blue pill
the words Christ has risen
billboard battles
(3)
waiting in line
outside the fish market
neighborhood cats
(4)
kids climbing the walls
all along the highway
wild wisteria
(5)
broad conical hats
working in the fields
a time slip
(6)
sirens in the night
someone else鈥檚 misfortune
this time
(7)
playing peekaboo
on a winding valley road
a snowy mountain
As always, thank you for reading.