Wednesday 30 June 2010

pond haiku

under the footsteps of pond-skaters -
.....................fish shiver






previously published in Haiku Scotland 21

12 comments:

Titus said...

How beautiful.
"shiver" a really inspired word-choice.

bunnits said...

Nice.

Gillena Cox said...

good pond ku

much love
gillena

Anonymous said...

The image is perfect.

Thomma Lyn said...

Such a lovely haiku that it made me shiver. Great work.

Megan Coyle said...

Love your word choice here - "skaters" and "shiver" work so well :) what an image!

Naquillity said...

fish shiver is a great ending to this wonderful haiku. i love the new blog look and that header photo is spectacular. hope all is well.

Devika Jyothi said...

what a haiku to read in this summer's heat!

Good one, Juliet...a little shiver reading it! :)

wishes,
devika

P. M. Doolan said...

Nice. I like the link to tradition and Basho's pond haiku "Frog leaps".

DazyDayWriter said...

Lovely! Thanks for sharing.

RG said...

So simple seeming - so hard to do!

Janice Thomson said...

Gosh do I ever like this one Juliet.
Excellent choice of words.