December Haiku Share
Share a haiku about restaurants, solitude, loneliness, winter, or clouds. (All are welcome to join in– just leave a haiku in the comments section, with publications credits where applicable.)
the waiter asks
if I’m alone –
winter clouds
1st place, Sketchbook Kukai, Nov/Dec 2010
If you missed the initial post, click here to read about the month long haiku challenge I am holding right here on my blog this December.
Prose Posies 
So evocative haiku.
In the menu of our life we can find an item: loneliness.
Not everybody can be able to change this particular “restaurant”.
Well, life is like a waiter – we can order many, many things, but later this waiter will hand us a bill.
I’m sorry for my slip-up.
Of course: a bill.
Could you please correct my mistake, Cara.
Thanks so much.
Thank you, Lech. Yes, there’s always that bill to pay.
Well, everyone pays.
But I must pay more attention posting my comments 🙂
Your perfect blog should be without my mistake.
So, if you wish to delate my “biil” comment you are very welcome to do so. I can post one more time.
I didn’t realize I could edit other people’s comments before–I already fixed your typo, Lech. No problem.
Thanks so much, Cara.
Sorry for troubling you.
sun going down-
a lonely boy asking
if I got a son
It is, let’s say, my autobiographical piece – many years ago I gave my answer to this child.
Enjoyed this one Lech.
Alan
Thanks, Alan,
Lech
My family were steeped in the restaurant business for many years, and for a couple of years I took over our French/Italian cuisine restaurant as both manager, barman, maitre d, wine waiter and bottle washer. 🙂
This haiku is from many years later.
the long white apron
of a barman–
the day menu unscrews
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Snapshots 9 (2001)
An assortment of restaurant/café haiku:
light snowdrift
a golden retriever blinks
thru the café window
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Blithe Spirit, December 2011 issue
café orquídea …
the soft shuffle of shoes
round a dragon tree
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Blithe Spirit vol. 14 No. 2 (2004)
scooter fall –
a boy grasps his pain
outside an art café
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Snapshots 9 (2001); THFhaiku app for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch (2011); Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press)
gathering dusk
outside a quayside café
fishermen’s lines
Alan Summers
Publications credits: International Kusamakura Haiku Anthology (1998); 3LIGHTS ‘Nocturne’ (2008)
Award credits: Nyuusen Prize, International Kusamakura Haiku Contest (1998)
art café –
the security guy hums
a James Bond theme
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Irish Haiku Society magazine Shamrock (Spring 2007)
crowded café
a father bends carnations
towards the girl
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Snapshots Four, Collection Competition Issue (1998)
Award credit:
Highly Commended, Haiku Collection Competition, Snapshot Press (1998)
dark morning…
the sushi bar opens up
for the train station
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Aesthetics, (Bath Spa University 2007); Haiku Friends Vol. 3 (Japan 2009)
hand full of copper
an old alcoholic
smiles by the winebar
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Blithe Spirit Vol. 9 No. 3 (1999)
home town…
waiting in a hotel bar
the stranger
Alan Summers
Publications credits: winterSPIN (1997); 3Lights Gallery, way back home (2008)
Oh, so many good ones! The “security guy” made me smile.
Thanks Christine. That was a particularly memorable day, as I only intended to spend an hour over a pot of tea with a friend, which extended into the night as a multi-event exhibition materialised inside and outside the Arnolfini art centre in Bristol before our eyes.
Wow, what a collection, Alan. Wonderful!
I’m curious. Do you keep your haiku in a database accessible by keyword, or are you just a particularly organized person, or both. 😉 I would love to be able to access all my haiku on a certain topic, like you just did. I guess I could in theory because they are all in Excel spreadsheets, but I don’t have one master file– just lots of smaller ones.
Hi Cara,
I just keep a master word.doc file of my published haiku and do a find search under keywords. I’m slowly working on separated dedicated word.docs on topics, but I have so many projects on the go, it’s on the backburner.
Alan
CLOUDS
rain clouds
conversations shift around
the train carriage
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Mainichi Shimbun (2011)
Award Credits: Honourable Mention Best of Mainichi 2011
fractus clouds
the last of the single malt
smoothes out the edges
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Blithe Spirit (Vol. 22 no. 2 May 2012); The Bath Burp: Poetry, Music & Arts Monthly Issue No. 10 (2012)
the camp fire burns the misty moon halved by thin cloud
Alan Summers
Publications credits:
Presence # 4 (May 1997) ISSN 1366-5367; Stepping Stones: a way into haiku ISBN 978-0-9522397-9-6 (2007)
green clouds
the scarecrow worries
a loose thread
Alan Summers
Publication Credits: Asahi Shimbun (Japan 2012)
cloud mountain
she screams her daughter’s name
into the month of march
Alan Summers
Publication Credits: Air, British Haiku Society Members’ Anthology (2012)
These also are great, Alan!
Wow, Alan! These are wonderful!
All of them lovely, but ‘security guy’ is my favorite too, and ‘fractus clouds’!
MORE CLOUDS
cool morning
birdsong
light on a distant cloud
Alan Summers
Publications credits: Modern Haiku, (1999); Azami Haiku in English Commemorative Issue (Japan 2000)
inside dewdrops
the only time I am
the size I feel
Shamrock Haiku Journal Vol. 22
I remember reading this. One of my favorites 🙂
just lovely
This was also on my August Blog Bash feature too! 🙂 Always wonderful to read it again. 🙂
Beautiful!
clouds lie cradled
near the sun
dark december days
~isabelle loverro
sudden chill . .
the stillness of a mountain
knee deep in clouds
http://ravencliffs.blogspot.com/2012/10/chill.html?m=1
Love this one, Sandi! 🙂
cloud hands
the cat observes
my tai chi moves
bottlerockets, 13:1, summer 2011
As someone who also does Tai Chi, and owns two cats, this haiku made me smile, Lauren.
I remember this one, Cara. And I was right behind you with this one:
riverbank-
dipping my toes
in winter clouds
2nd place, Sketchbook kukai, Nov-Dec 2010
Lovely haiku, Sanjuktaa. 🙂
I remember your lovely haiku well, Sanjuktaa– I voted for it. 🙂
Thank you all!
Lovely.
Lovely.
Thanks Seanan and macrush 🙂
stratus clouds
his slow
recovery
A Hundred Gourds 1:2 (March 2012)
Very nice! 🙂
Love this one, Polona!
Ah.
writing your name
on a napkin
& kissing it…
the waiter asks
if i desire anything
Pamela A. Babusci
Eucalypt Issue 3 2007
Oh, whew.
🙂
Wow…breath-taking!
Reading that kind of poem should be every partizan’s tanka desire.
Simply it wowed me.
winter silence…
the phone rings
only in my head
Notes From the Gean (Fall 2011: Vol. 3, Issue 2)
See haiga here – http://www.notesfromthegean.com/archives/sept-2011/haiga/haiga_011_2.html
each day continues
a journey of loneliness
crows screech overhead
winter afternoon
one empty space
in the library carpark
Honorable Mention, Haiku International Association 2009 Haiku Contest
cumulus
I realise I’ve lived
all my life on islands
Presence #45 January 2012
Poignant! ❤
Alison, I realise I love this one, and I will always do.
Your “cumulus” so affects me.
I’m going with “winter” —
falling snow
and suddenly we stop
for deer
pay attention: a river of stones (April, 2011)
winter morning
the stillness
of your face
Daily Haiku, Cycle 13
Evocative.
Thank you.
nimbus clouds
one candle lit
at the confluence
equinox my glass half-full again
Modern Haiku, 43.2, Summer 2012
I remember this one! Just lovely!
Thank you, Sanjukta!
Every time I reread this, it is better.
Thank you so much, Seanan. I’m enjoying getting to know your work . . . and all the other fine work showcased here.
winter constellations
we listen to music
in the dark
Hi Cara. Please let me know if this won’t fit in. Thank you! I love what you and everyone else has been doing. Beautiful haiku!
*have been doing
oops
Nice haiku, Dawn. Glad to see you joining in. 🙂
Oh, thanks for the comments. Much obliged.