December Form Challenge: Haiku

Rainbow in the mist
puddles the shining pavement.
Cars hum, honk like geese.
 
House fills friends gather
This is the way to start years
Absent ones thought of
 
January night

Thirtyone have gone
Threefiftyfour next will come
with the 'morrows light
 
I know it's now February but still...

Late winter haiku.

New snow this morning.
Temperature starts to drop.
The groundhog just laughs.
 
Acrostic haiku

Come, good little witch
Understand my dilemma
Magic can save me
 
Before I post a haiku, western haikus are not haikus for the simple reason they aren't composed using Japanese script, which is why they always seem insubstantial and unfinished. Japanese haikus have an internal cross referencing, a sort of puzzle between what is said and the symbols used. My daughter studies Japanese and said, western haikus are like having the skeleton of a voluptuous model and having to imagine her, while Japanese haikus in Japanese script are the voluptuous model, flesh, breathing and all.

A crow
unfolds into flight
night falls​

I think you should frighten your daughter
Japanese is a baad language, unlike German which is soo Uber

Serious - define this: Japanese script
 
western haikus are like having the skeleton of a voluptuous model and having to imagine her, while Japanese haikus in Japanese script are the voluptuous model, flesh, breathing and all.

bog. i know you're out there.
get your daughter to explain this further

I like this, agree with her, esp the breathing part

now that should be scary to all parties concerned
 
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