Fallen Leaves
Haiku Collection
(Part II)
We are excited to bring you Part II of a collection of 130 Haiku poems, a creation of 14 friends, a project run by One Kayak. Please visit this page for details about this fun project.
Here is a highlight: about four months ago, Manshu 蔓舒 started this Haiku project, and asked about 20 friends. 14 of them eventually joined her. They are all beginners in poetry, and are all non-English-native speakers (except two school children who are considered bilingual). Despite all the challenges and nuances, everyone tried their best to leverage a second language to share day-to-day observations from this small yet big and amazing life, while expressing some of their deepest feelings, ranging from great joy to immense sorrow. Personally, the process of such a collaborative and communal effort has its own power, fun and inspiration. It brought all of them together.
10/7 by SS
Eat birthday cake piece
by piece. Grow old as you sit
by me day by day
10/7 by CL
Bright and elegant
You are a dear to my heart
Feliz Cumpleanos
10/7 by YX
Bridal veil in white
Happiness covered with tears
New chapter, it is
10/8 by XW
Day by day passed by
We grow old year after year
It’s law of nature
10/9 by SS
Foggy hills Chilly Dew
The fifth autumn solar term
Winter at door step
10/9 by XW
Winter is coming
Weather changes - it’s getting cold
Have to dress warmly
10/9 by JL
Fast technology
Fast food fast delivery
Fast to heaven or?
10/10 by YX
Tattoo since teenage
Fading in the dawns of life
Script wasn’t written down
10/10 by XW
Everything in pan
Rice, vegetables and sauce
Now it’s clay pot time!
10/11 by SS
Breakfast of west coast
Toss in avocado toast
Orchards swipe forest
10/11 by XW
Sun, sand and cactus,
Ocean and an old captain
think of an old song
(same old song)
10/12 by XW
I got some fresh fruit
A box of love from a friend
Delicious apples
10/12 by YX
Paint a picture, while
Listen to “iridescent”
Indian-summer heat
10/13 by XW
Nobody knows who
was that charming young lady
Oh, Mona Lisa
10/14 by XW
The sun shone gaily
Sunlight poured into my room
Through crystal windows
10/14 by YX
Peace, love, on paper
How does mankind term, esti
-mated, in the end?
10/15 by SS
A flock of seagulls
Glide through skyline, effortless
angle of attack
10/15 by CL
Haze filling the air
Fogging hills and the city line
Wait for the sea breeze!
10/15 by XW
“Double Ninth Festival”
Older people climb up hills
Careful! Don’t fall!
10/16 by SS
Purple raw crystal
Corner office nested in trees
Look through double-panes
10/17 by YX
All-in while together
All-out while saying goodbye
Make peace with fate
10/17 by SS
A team of team players
March toward the highest peak
Such a lonely trip
10/18 by XW
Picture on the wall
A dragonfly hovers above
a lotus who buds
10/18 by YX
Still a week to go
Let the pink champagne bubble
So's my heart sparkle
(Can't wait!)
10/19 by SS
March to snowy peak
Friends and folks all-together
Such a weary trip
10/19 by SS
Paddle in whitewater
Friends and folks on the same boat
Such as lonely feel
10/19 by SS
Hike through forestry trail
Friends and folks hug in laughter
Such a starless night
10/19 by XW
I went to market
where they sell organic food
Indulged a lot
10/19 by YX
Puzzle of my half
Always search for the next piece
Almost fifty years
10/20 by SS
The moon casts moonlight
The mountain shapes mountain waves
I lost my own voice
10/20 by XW
Stay at home all day
I enjoy chat time with friends
And afternoon tea
10/20 by YX
Being asked once again
Where’s the happiness on earth?
Always somewhere, alw(ays)
10/21 by SS
White cliffs, waves go pink
The curtain is up? Or down?
Go ahead, wrap my heart
10/21 by XW
What a sunny day
We like to bask in the sun
on fake grass playground
10/21 by CL
Blame on the weather
For all things can’t be explained
This is how it works
10/23 by XW
My teeth hurts again
Treatment is a long process
Taking a pill first
10/24 by SS
Rainy winds whole night
Message from North Pacific
Time to sort out cashmere
10/24 by XW
Time flies like a bird
This year is ending again
You have a good day
10/24 by YX
“You can run, sweetheart.
Do not let anything stop you.”
“So do you, Chuan-Mom.”
10/25 by XW
This season, old times
We preserve all kinds of food
to survive winter
10/26 by XW
Outbreak here again
I got a boost vaccine shot
Fingers crossed for best
10/27 by XW
The Golden Gate Bridge
A world infamous red bridge
Flies over the bay
10/28 by GY & AX
Buildings, more buildings
Rabbit is trapped in the land
Nowhere else to go
10/28 by MQ
Every night, look
at my to-do’s. How to do
better the next day?
10/29 by XW
Enter the compound
Travel pass, health code and more
Have to show them all
10/29 by JZ
Shackled by turmoil
I imbibe the last vestige
of joy you bestow
10/29 by CL
Golden sunlight shines
through pink cotton candy clouds
A beautiful day!
10/30 by YH
The end of October
Crickets chirping, fading into silence
Last sip of summer
10/30 by YH
The silver lining of cloud
Shed by the glorious moon, never tired
Buried in the ever growing tide
10/30 by YH
A night in the autumn
Your name suddenly rises, from deep down
With a bottle of osmanthus wine
10/30 by CL
(Haiku Social)
What a sweet burden
strained but don't want to give up
a friendship precious
10/30 by XW
Today is weekend
Cleaned bathroom and kitchen
The dust swept away
11/1 by CL
(climate change)
Climate is warming
Polar melting, storms surging
blue planet's crying
11/1 by XW
Jujube, ginger
I drink it in the morning
Kind of healthy tea
11/1 by GY
Look at yellow trees
They liven up the forest
The leaves slowly fall
11/2 by SS
Nimbus clouds rising
Wake me up when October ends
Fire clouds fall from sky
11/3 by XW
Double eleven
Online shopping carnival
Everyone buying
11/4 by YX
Don't be somebody
Bounce, bounce, I write my story
Don't be Nobody
11/4 by JL
Hunger in stomach
Food can cure hunger in mind
Nothing can help more
(No one can help you)
11/4 by JL
Media creates
onlookers and loneliness
Who is real product?
11/4 by SS
(Practicing Calligraphy)
Thousands of Kan-Ji
Pour into zillions of bytes
Lost-and-found in time
11/5 by XW
It's time for winter
Weather is getting colder
Like everyday
11/5 by CL
(kids)
Boy one, boy two, plus
a girl so cuddly and cute,
happiness explodes
11/6 by GY
Cars, cars and more cars
Longer waits in the traffic
Listening to honks
11/6 by CL
(lightness of being)
Blue sky and light breeze,
butterfly flutters above,
may it every stay.