Haikuesday poems on Hello Poetry

Roberta Day Mar 2012

Haikuesday March 20th (late, I know)

Punctuality

is my selective forte

Again, forgive me

Written on Wednesday, March 21st.

Roberta Day Feb 2015

Haikuesday February 17, 2015

Silence is golden;
Communication matters.
Find some middle ground

#poetry #haiku #communication

Klaus Aug 2022

Haikuesday

Like a shooting star

you were there and then were gone.

Searching for your heart.

this is your last haikuesday. Where did you go?

#shoootingstar #brokenheart #insecureattachmentstyle

Roberta Day Jun 2014

Haikuesday June 24, 2014 (late)

It's shedding season--
a time for growth and flaking
away dry, dead cells.

My snake isn't the only one shedding her skin.

#poetry #haiku #new #growth #cells #shed

Roberta Day Oct 2018

Haikuesday October 2, 2018

Procrastination
the greatest motivator,
eventually.

I've been slacking again.

#poetry #haiku #haikuesday

Roberta Day Aug 2018

Haikuesday August 28, 2018

Inspired by light
and a likeness between us;
No shade needed here.

Trying to get back into the swing of this.

#poetry #haiku #haikuesday

Roberta Day Feb 2015

Haikuesday February 10, 2015 (late)

Above and beyond
you soar, rejuvenating
yourself and others.

#poetry #haiku #rejuvenation #haikuesday

Roberta Day Mar 2012

Haikuesday March 27th

My obligation
to haikuesday has fizzled,
but not faded yet.

Roberta Day Nov 2015

Haikuesday November 10, 2015

I'll open myself
up to you if you open
yourself up to me.

#poetry #haiku #openness #haikuesday

Roberta Day Oct 2015

Haikuesday October 13, 2015

Periodic change
is needed for those who grow
complacent quickly.

Need to find a new job.

#poetry #haiku #complacency #stagnancy #haikuesday

Roberta Day Jun 2023

Haikuesday June 6, 2023

Remain Open with
Your Self, Your Heart, Your Mind, and
Happiness you'll find

I'm back.

#poetry #haiku #haikuesday #happiness

Roberta Day Apr 2014

Haikuesday April 29, 2014

I’m infamous
for self-sabotage; soon I’ll
be at it again

#poetry #haiku #sabotage

Roberta Day Feb 2016

Haikuesday February 9, 2015

Determination
shouldn't expire at the
cost of an alarm.

#poetry #haiku #determined #goals #overslept

Roberta Day Sep 2014

Haikuesday September 9, 2014

Rested and on time;
I am in control—Today,
the day is all mine.

Two jobs is rough.

#poetry #haiku #recharged

Roberta Day Mar 2016

Haikuesday March 29, 2016 (late)

In order to heal,
apply pressure to pain with
volition and strength.

It's been a while.

#poetry #haiku #haikuesday

Roberta Day Jan 2016

Haikuesday January 5, 2016

I want to be your
personal alarm clock to
start your morning right.

#poetry #haiku #haikuesday

Roberta Day Jun 2012

Haikuesday June 19th

Rain, rain, pelt my face

Camouflage the salty tears

trickling down my cheek

Roberta Day Oct 2014

Haikuesday October 21, 2014 (late)

A word of advice:
If you don't mean what you say,
then do not say it.

Something we can all do better.

#poetry #haiku

Roberta Day Aug 2022

Haikuesday August 30, 2022

Sharpening the mind
by living on the edge of
this stainless steel world.

For Klaus.

#poetry #haiku #tuesday

Roberta Day Apr 2012

Haikuesday April 24th

Procrastination
will ultimately be the
death of my sanity

True story.

Roberta Day Nov 2015

Haikuesday November 3, 2015

Mind attuned and strung
with balanced chords, struck to the
beat of my new stride.

#poetry #haiku #haikuesday

Roberta Day Mar 2016

Haikuesday March 1, 2016

Beware happiness;
It can be draining if you
delve in it too deep.

#poetry #haiku #haikuesday

Roberta Day Jun 2021

Haikuesday June 29, 2021

Wading in waters
So suffocatingly deep
Help me, I'm drowning

Been a long time since my last haikuesday. I thought about this one last week but was late to post.

#haiku #haikuesday #tuesday #depression

Roberta Day Nov 2014

Haikuesday November 4, 2014

Touch can be primal,
sensual, and relieving,
yet rare to receive.

#poetry #haiku #touch #lonliness

Roberta Day Aug 2014

Haikuesday August 12, 2014

Conversing with you
is frolicking on puffy
white clouds of content.

#poetry #haiku #content

Roberta Day Feb 2012

Haikuesday January 31st (late)

Neglected again,
this groggy Tuesday has been
wet with rain and tears

Roberta Day Jun 2014

Haikuesday June 17, 2014

Darting specks of light
refract beams of ideas--
forever fleeting

#poetry #haiku #positive #ideas #energy #fleeting

Roberta Day Mar 2015

Haikuesday March 24, 2015

You must have laser
eyes, 'cause your stare is setting
my body ablaze

#poetry #haiku #haikuesday

Roberta Day May 2016

Haikuesday May 17, 2015

Relationships are
codependent; Partnerships
are coefficient.

#poetry #haiku

Roberta Day Oct 2015

Haikuesday October 20, 2015

With some grains of salt,
I sprinkle them over your words
and watch them dissolve.

#poetry #haiku #disappointment #haikuesday

Roberta Day Jun 2015

Haikuesday June 23, 2015

Mutual desire
like a flint rock and steel can
spark a glowing fire.

#poetry #fire #passion #haiku #lust #haikuesday

Klaus Apr 2013

Haikuesday(schlaflos)

Tired, but wired
Espresso love at se7en
Sleep is for blockheads

Roberta Day Dec 2011

Haikuesday, November 29th

My little black knight,
soundly sleeping on towels
I dare not wake him

I participate in writing haiku poems on Tuesdays. I post them on tumblr, but I think I'll add them to my hellopoetry as well.

Roberta Day Sep 2014

Haikuesday September 30, 2014

Waking up is hard.
It doesn’t get easier
with nothing to do.

#poetry

Roberta Day Oct 2012

Haikuesday October 23, 2012

Autumn shade; crinkling
leaves beneath my shoes; woolly
sweaters and berets

I wrote this finally realizing it's fall.

Roberta Day Aug 2015

Haikuesday August 4, 2015

Opportunity
knocks when you've stopped answering;
Open the **** door.

#poetry #haiku #opportunity #haikuesday

Roberta Day Mar 2015

Haikuesday March 31, 2015

Been feeling myself
lately, unimpressed by those
who aren't feeling me.

#poetry #haiku #confidence

Roberta Day Jul 2015

Haikuesday July 14, 2015

Spiders devour
not just their mates, but even
their own genus kin

The spider den is no more.

#poetry #haiku #betrayal #lethal #spider

Roberta Day Jul 2013

Haikuesday July 30, 2013

Music is moving—
like iridescent sound waves,
coloring my mood.

Sorry for the lack of haikus.

Roberta Day Mar 2015

Haikuesday March 3, 2015

The old is rotting
my insides, my perception
I am not present.

#poetry #haiku #gloomy

Roberta Day Sep 2015

Haikuesday September 29, 2015

Being open to
experience is being
open with yourself.

#poetry #haiku #open #haikuesday

Roberta Day Dec 2015

Haikuesday December 1, 2015

Out of the woodwork
they peek until they're spotted
and then they retreat.

#poetry #haiku

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