101 Uses for Friendly Haiku

(a haiku collection)

  

confidante

haiku believe you
they keep your darkest secrets
I trust my haiku


under one's breath

counting syllables
takes my mind off my worries
thank God for haiku


tearfalls

get your haiku on
thunderstorms and flash floods loom
let's protect those hearts


stern haiku

my haiku calls me,
sets me down for a lecture
"Pay close attention!"


vision

haiku describes it,
opens your mind's eye to life:
mourning dove calls dawn


stoked

haiku fire me up!
imagine, little engines,
stoked with intentions


poetry marketplace

"Haiku! Perfect for
hanging your tears out to dry!"
I'll take a dozen


clean-up crew

suddenly, haiku
spring from the depths of my soul
toting love's sweet shards


haiku whisk broom

cleaning out my heart
sweep out shards of love's desire
haiku tidies up


comfort-food poem

it's been a long day
give me the Haiku Special
extra whipped cream, please


it keeps

leftover haiku
always deliciously fresh
warms up by itself


poetry photoshoot

fully-dressed novels
short stories, modestly draped
full-frontal haiku


birds of a feather

innocent haiku
rounded up with the others
wrong place and wrong time


pamper your haiku

feed haiku with love
walk your haiku every day
show haiku you care