A Haiku Each Day

Sixty-two hundred and five Syllables a year.

For Haiku Heights #12

October 11, 2010 at 5:26 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Autumn, Butterflies and Moths, Fruit, Haiku, Insects and Spiders, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Trees and tagged: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Sweet delicacy
Yields to a butterfly’s tongue –
Blemish on a plum.

 

Prompt #12: Blemish

11 Comments»

  Teresa wrote @ October 11, 2010 at 11:33 pm

What a great haiku! I love watching the butterflies around the fruit.

Mine is here. http://razzamadazzle.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/blemish/

Reply
  Abigail Parker wrote @ October 13, 2010 at 2:55 am

Thank you! I can tell you’re a gardener even w/o reading your lovely haiku this week – those red-spotted purple admirals on fallen fruit are a joy to watch.

Reply
  tamilnovel wrote @ October 12, 2010 at 1:41 pm

lovely haiku!

Reply
  Abigail Parker wrote @ October 13, 2010 at 2:55 am

Thank you! I love yours too 🙂

Reply
  Nanka wrote @ October 14, 2010 at 2:37 pm

Love plums!! 🙂 Wouldn’t mind being that butterfly 🙂

Reply
  Abigail Parker wrote @ October 17, 2010 at 7:28 am

Thank you! I liked the image of the blemish being what enabled the butterfly to feed through the taut skin.

Reply
  Sumit Sarkar wrote @ October 16, 2010 at 12:51 am

A great one…
Loved it so much… 🙂

Reply
  Abigail Parker wrote @ October 17, 2010 at 7:28 am

Thanks so much! 🙂

Reply
  Strummed Words wrote @ October 16, 2010 at 9:49 am

Very nice image!

Reply
  Abigail Parker wrote @ October 17, 2010 at 7:28 am

Thanks very much! 🙂

Reply
  Leo (Leonnyes) wrote @ October 17, 2010 at 8:02 am

Perfect. love plums, so I don’t mind being the butterfly either 🙂

Welcome to Haiku Heights, Abigail 🙂 Good to see u at my meme… hope to see you again.. this week’s prompt is up too.. it’s Serenity. 🙂

Reply

Leave a reply to Sumit Sarkar Cancel reply