At least alight your pricey Porsche Boxster to write a haiku about polatouches and black salamanders. You don't need an Armani-suit to write about sacred trees, mill-owners and hot birds. Scratching your back nor pick your nose will help to write haiku. Just, see the flickering sunset. Look at the treetops, see the magic of roses and the branching leaves. Be a storyteller and penetrate the extreme depths of what is hidden in the whole world.

memorial day

on his decorations

a bumblebee

The way is open... the modern 'Western' haiku is a flexible form for brief, vivid capture of single moments of time. The so called 'aha moments'. I love them and I open myself to the every day world around me and to the imputs of my five (and more) senses, but I don't adhere strictly to rules.

I am simply perceiving the essence of a moment with the best words and phrases I can think of. I limit the number of words. Three lines, does it for me. Of course my modest haiku are not just nature poems. There are many other things such as: teapots, sweet-smelling insence, famous jazz riffs, picture books, single-malt whiskies and love songs. And there is always you and me!