The theme this week at One Deep Breath is one-line haiku.
Here is a selection of haiku written during our visit to Tenerife in February 2006.
- lift music wafts down the corridor into our room
- two palm trees a ladies old bicycle parked between
- purple flowers opposite burnt-out remains of mini-golf
- skateboard park iron bars at the entrance to the church
- on the roof outside the nudist zone topless sunbathers
- among dunes across the old crater snow and stones
- hillside terraces hang uncultivated between land-slips
- overcoats strewn on hotel lobby cases the weather back home
- red sailboat at the side of the motorway by a bus stop
## 2 & 6 were published in Time Haiku (UK).
## 4, 5 & 9 and the above charcoal were published in The Sons of Camus Writers International (Canada).
I feel as though I've been on a whistestop tour of Tenerife - thanks!
ReplyDeleteThese I sense as photographs in a file. We went here and here...
ReplyDeleteThanks. :)
Hmm... you've done this before I see! ;)
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed my little tour through your lovely words! Thank you!
two palm trees a ladies old bicycle parked between
ReplyDeleteI really like this one!
One line Haiku is new to me. One thing that stood out as I read these, I began forming stories around each image. I didn't expect that.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed rummaging around your sites, so much to read.
it's astounding how so few words can create a complete scene...fantastic!
ReplyDeleteI like the charcoal drawing.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing these. They really demonstrate how a whole scene can be shown within one line.
ReplyDeleteThis is so new to me a one line Haiku ...great to know about it
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Nasra
This is a travelogue in one line poetry~lovely!
ReplyDeleteI love it! Great job!!!
ReplyDeleteGosh Gerald,you're a cultured as well as a kind sort of chap! Sorry about the "polution" caused by one human being. I thought "Great, a lonely duck/goose with NO PEOPLE in the way" then I looked closely and saw him.....HE SHOULDN'T BE THERE!!!!!
ReplyDeletefor readers wondering what chuckeroon is on about, he's referring to a comment by me on his picture at Richmond on Thames DP.
ReplyDeleteActually I like the presence of the dog and its walker in his picture as did the Chinese lady who commented too.
The one line haiku has a lot of potential. The effect here is like rifling through a bundle of holiday snapshots or twirling a postcard rack. Super!
ReplyDeleteI love the hillside terraces.
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