Monday, 9 June 2008

haiku - sleep

3am -
blackbird song
wakes me


sleep and insomnia for Mad Kane's Haiku prompt

You can read a senryu I wrote a while ago about insomnia over on Over Forty Shades here.

13 comments:

jem said...

Nice one. Birds are the only ones I forgive for waking me from sleep. There's a lot of it about at the moment - an exciting and busy time for many of them!

d. moll, l.ac. said...

Nice, the other insomnia entry was good too! We are constantly dancing with not sleeping. Lately we both sleep better if I sleep with rabbits!

polona said...

ah, but that's a nice way to be awakened :)

Lucy said...

Insomnia not a problem, happily, but struggling with a midsummer poem about the late singing mistle thrush...

I've ordered the Wendy Nyemeyer 'Unleash the poem' on your recommendation. It may arrive tomorrow...

Anonymous said...

You’re lucky. I was woken around five this morning by the incessant, ugly chatter of magpies. I don’t know what had upset them – maybe there was a cat or some other predator in the vicinity of a nest – but what a racket they made, and it went on and on and on …

Anonymous said...

Ooh, wonderful! Once I wake up I have such trouble going back to sleep.

The Bunns said...

Yeah! We rattle our bowls and crocks and stuff about then too. Sure gets their attention - the lazy bones.

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Scot said...

:)

Anonymous said...

I connect with this poem. Sleep can be a very fragile thing.

Odessa said...

i love blackbirds but 3 am is a bit too early! i wouldn't be able to go back to sleep then. ;)

Jade said...

oh yeah!!! - succinct

Bill said...

"In the real dark nights of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning."--F. Scott Fitzgerald