fairly even trade
collect old Band-Aids from beach
rewarded with glass
Tag Archives: sea glass
#485- bliss
on the empty beach
following my bliss I walk
collecting sea glass
Filed under haiku, haiku heights
#461 – uncommon
worn smooth by time, waves
shards of glass and pottery
battered, uncommon
Filed under haiku
#454 – doubting
doubting the waves reach
snatching sea glass from the surf
water soaks my shoe
Filed under haiku, haiku heights
#337 – rescued
rescued from the sea
apothecary stopper
blue, green and rounded
#278- piled
piled on table
pieces of glass from ocean
green, brown, clear and blue
#83-Pilfering
come here for sea glass
safely below high tide mark
pilfer from the sea
Filed under haiku, micropoetry, poetry
#57~ stolen treasure
bright blue shard of glass
softened by seas rough caress
taken from wild
Filed under haiku, micropoetry, poetry, senryu
#29 – 2 more famous haiku poems
from the book “Seeds from a Birch Tree” by Clark Strand:
Swim Beach at low tide
a fragment of blue sea glass
with the rocks & shells
~Susan Rudnick
( I love this one because I scour the beaches for sea glass and blue is very rare- I love how this captures the unsentimentality of haiku)
scattered in the shrubs
unceremoniously –
the poison ivy
-Dennis Davidson
I hope you enjoy these on your Friday, or Saturday or any day really –
Savage Haiku 