Inspired by my friend, Jan Marler Morrill, who has a new blog featuring haiku at http://haikubyhaiku.wordpress.com, here's my haiku to celebrate the New Year:
STARTING OVER
By Beth Carter
Fresh start. New, clean slate.
Promise of new beginnings.
Must be the New Year.
Notice the repetition of the word "new." That was intentional. Don't you love fresh starts? A chance to improve yourself or change your unproductive ways? I do. Care to add your own haiku celebrating, embracing, or even dreading 2012?
I like it, Beth, especially the way you used "new" several times - like a mantra. Here's the one I wrote for the New Year, because I'm trying to maintain my focus. :)
ReplyDeleteA frog leaps forward
His mind focused only on
Landing where he’s aimed
Nice and different. I like the laser-focus of the frog. If only I were more like that with my writing and other projects.
ReplyDeleteMy you and I both maintain our focus in 2012. With that, I must sign off!
I would try, but you know I only do rhyming poems. I'll leave it to the pros.
ReplyDeleteHa! Thanks for stopping by anyway, good friend.
ReplyDeleteI love fresh starts
ReplyDeleteevery morning is a new
opportunity
Good one, Russell. I like fresh starts, too. Thanks for stopping by!
ReplyDeletePast is forgotten.
ReplyDeleteFuture begins on fresh slate--
Embracing New Year.
New Year's fashion garb:
Fresh ambitions cover us,
Old habits are shed.
Now, back to JANO :-)
Thanks for taking time away from JANO to post, Ginny. I especially like your first haiku.
ReplyDeleteA great haiku Beth.
ReplyDeleteI can never get my head around new year resolutions, maybe because I'm so bad at keeping them!
old resolutions
transferred into this new year -
soon to fade away