Five One-Line Haiku
sky grows darker sunset or storm clouds?
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nephew’s 13th birthday whitecaps on the lake
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red rocks pink at sunrise I wake up to check my phone
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Memorial Day three unsharpened yellow pencils by the dumpster
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a crow calls before six you’re early this morning
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J. D. Nelson is the author of eleven print chapbooks and e-books of poetry, including *purgatorio* (wlovolw, 2024). His first full-length collection is *in ghostly onehead* (Post-Asemic Press, 2022). Visit his website, MadVerse.com, for more information and links to his published work. Nelson lives in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
7 thoughts on “Poetry from J.D. Nelson”
keep up the good work my friend… hope all is well.
Ah, the ubiquitous Haiku, a Japanese poetic form that embodies of three lines, with five, seven, and five syllables in lines 1,2 and 3. The haiku developed from the hokku, the opening three lines of a longer poem identified as a tanka. It became an autonomous form of poetry in the 17th century. But now, poets like J.D. are breaking the rules and reinventing the genre, that’s proper exciting. Got me buzzing for sure!
Pondering J.D.’s haunting halcyon lines “sky grows darker sunset or storm clouds?”; which can be a metaphor for so many contemporary happenings, it’s giving “uncertainty” and righfully so…I could read and meditate on these over and over all day and manage to come up with disparate meanings. that’s what I love about J.D. poetry, seemingly simple, yet replete with multifarious meanings…I’m a “poetically” thirsty fan!–Jacques Fleury, Boston Globe feaured author of “Sparks in the Dark: A Lighter Shade of Blue, A Poetic Memoir”
keep up the good work my friend… hope all is well.
Good ones. Sharp images (pencils excepted!) crisp clean evocative poems!
Enjoyed these.
Ah, the ubiquitous Haiku, a Japanese poetic form that embodies of three lines, with five, seven, and five syllables in lines 1,2 and 3. The haiku developed from the hokku, the opening three lines of a longer poem identified as a tanka. It became an autonomous form of poetry in the 17th century. But now, poets like J.D. are breaking the rules and reinventing the genre, that’s proper exciting. Got me buzzing for sure!
Pondering J.D.’s haunting halcyon lines “sky grows darker sunset or storm clouds?”; which can be a metaphor for so many contemporary happenings, it’s giving “uncertainty” and righfully so…I could read and meditate on these over and over all day and manage to come up with disparate meanings. that’s what I love about J.D. poetry, seemingly simple, yet replete with multifarious meanings…I’m a “poetically” thirsty fan!–Jacques Fleury, Boston Globe feaured author of “Sparks in the Dark: A Lighter Shade of Blue, A Poetic Memoir”
Some Great one-line ku!!
I agree Nelson left the unnecessary home as he moved forward
why am I assuming Nelson is male