Matsuo Bashō
Bad Haiku
Haiku #39091
I'm not quite home yet,
Roosting by a riverside
Til my house is free

By flowing water
I ease into homecoming
Find my body clock

Tick into focus
With a willow weeping green
Maiden hair for joy

I love your kite song
Your welcoming life greeting
I really can fly

I really can dive
Like a slinky-sleek wet bird
At home anywhere.

I know you've heard me,
Watched me, seen me, felt me, known...
Air, earth, water, fire.

Elemental growth
Organismic experience
Unifying self.

Red kite rowan tree
Passion flower, lavender
Dandelion lawn

At home as June starts
This story's summer chapter
We'll speak before long.
Haiku #39091
Posted: May 25, 2007 2:28 pm ET
Poet & location: Dee Plee Fab of sweet Thames riverside