Christmas Haiku Roundup
Back at the start of this month, Vinnie Kinsella and his crew at Declaration editing put out a call for holiday haiku. Today they’ve published the submissions on the Four and Twenty website. Some good stuff there!
When I sat down to write my submissions I ended up knocking out quite a few more than the limit of two that could be submitted, so I’ve rounded up the rest and dumped them here. That’s right, I’m a yuletide short-form poetry machine! Boo yah. So Merry Christmas to all, and to all a haiku.
Frost on fir needles.
Footsteps crunching in stiff grass.
My breath makes small clouds.
Each outing requires:
five coats, five hats, ten mittens,
and glacial patience.
Darkness comes early,
but bright webs of colored light
blanket the houses.
Immunize me, Lord
from these feverish salesmen
and their pandemic.
Steam marks the cold air
above this squalid manger
where heaven bends down.
And how could this be?
Amid poverty and crime,
my God, a baby!
He is birthed here in
reverse transfiguration:
glory hid in flesh.