Haiku is about sharp observation and minimalist description. Haiku can transport you to a moment in another time, another place, and put you briefly in contact with another person while they take a deep breath of life. This is a place for me to share with you some of my own haiku, information about haiku and haiku books, and some links off to other nice haiku sites.

Haiku Definitions

definitions of common haiku terms...haiku, tanka, renga, scifaiku, and more...

Spring Puddles

a brief selection of my haiku...both light-hearted and serious...take a little time to splash around in the rain...

Christmas Haiku

someone asked me if I knew of any Christmas haiku, and I didn't...so I tried my hand at it...

Haiku Book Reviews

reviews of a number of haiku books I've read...I especially enjoyed The Haiku Anthology and The Essential Haiku...contemporary English-language haiku and traditional Japanese haiku...also books on haiku theory and other Japanese verse forms...

These are a few experimental variations I've tried on haiku...

SciFaiku

when I was experimenting with haiku on various subjects, I came up with the idea of writing science fiction haiku, which I call SciFaiku...these are a selection of some of my favorites...

The SciFaiku Manifesto

a description of the principles behind scifaiku...borrowing on the principles of haiku...I jokingly called it a "manifesto"...the idea seems to have caught on quickly...this site contains pointers to other scifaiku sites and has lots of scifaiku contributed by lots of people...

Emily and What Eyes Cannot See

these 2 poems are somewhat dark, sympathetic, and supernatural...inspired by haiku, they each are a series of verses...each verse is haiku-like and fairly self-contained...taken together, each verse sequence tells a story...

Tom's Poetry Page

these are a variety of other poems of mine...they aren't haiku...but I hope you'll enjoy them...

Haiku and Related Books