a request

[anadamous]

Please give me your favorite haiku and tanka. Please include the author, if known.

Comments

Poem I wrote as a high school freshman

[overbo]

Stucco

I saw a tessellation like none before
no pieces were the same-
thus it tessled more.

Re: Poem I wrote as a high school freshman

[anadamous]

Hee hee! Too right. How could I forget what was manifestly the greatest poem of all time?

Re: Poem I wrote as a high school freshman

[overbo]

I'm surprised that it would even be familiar to you. Though I suppose I do recite it to folks every couple years.

Re: Poem I wrote as a high school freshman

[anadamous]

I remember you reciting it at a literary magazine meeting, in contradistinction to some suicide/love/angst/something poem someone else just read. Now you're going to say I have a good memory, but damn it, I don't. granpa_pete will vouch for that...

Suicide Note, by Langston Hughes

[arturis]

The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.

[once_a_banana]

I love the one about the child in the swing! It's like, "good lord, what is this vile fleshy thing I've created!?" Wonderfully sociopathic.

[jehovahsfitness]

[anneth]

Old pond