Not Pail By Comparison
Sits atop
Tom Thumb’s little fence –
A thimble.
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Barred
A fine fence!
It keeps out so much,
E’en the sun.
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The Living And The Dead
The flower
May once have had life.
The god? No.
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Pail – photo by Kriss Szkurlatowski at http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/mhYb59Q/Old+flowerpot+on+the+fence
Barred – photo by Edmondo Dantes at http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/o8DYzbm/fence
Living – photo by Dominic Morel at http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/mf8aq2g/Pray
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* The haiku I write are lines of 3-5-3 syllables instead of 5-7-5.
See Haiku article here for explanation, if needed: https://thebardonthehill.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/haiku/
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© Dennis Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2015.
All three of these are so good. I think I like the second one best of all.