Per Diem: Daily Haiku from Around the World—September 2015
We’ve featured a new Per Diem on our home page every day since 2012. In 2015, we’re pleased to continue this popular feature in a new layout and a new context.
Each day a new Per Diem poem will appear in the header on every page. And Per Diem is now linked directly to World of Haiku, a new project featuring poems from a different country each month. We’ll start this January and continue until we’ve exhausted the haiku cultures of the world. We hope you’ll enjoy seeing the variety and breadth of haiku as it is practiced around the world, and coming to know poets who share the same love of haiku as you do.
Greece is the featured country in September 2015. For more information about haiku in this part of the world, see A History of Greek Haiku.
Enjoy!
This Post Has 11 Comments
Comments are closed.
Orpheus
losing his love to Hades
for one tiny look
.
bare dionysus…
in your madness you drink
cups of red wine moon
in honeyed chatter…
sparrows announce the coach
of aphrodite
carved stone gryphons
guard the cities…
goats jump the hills
zeus shakes the earth…
acorns fall from the oak
harvest is near
mercury
your quicksilver eloquence…
winged messenger
equinox –
watching the half & half
swirl in the cup
twins share the stage
stars of morning and evening…
pollux and castor
wings held on by wax
melt in flight close to the sun…
icarus tumbles
Pegasus…
I conquer my fear
of flying
back in homer’s day…
the river of ocean loops
round a still flat world