12 Haiku Poems
In the sun
the butterfly wings
Like a church window
Empty baseball field
a robin
hops along the bench
The windmills
of Oklahoma look
in every direction
Train on the horizon –
my window
rattles
Missing a kick
at the icebox door
It closed anyway
The bottom of my shoes
are clean
from walking in the rain
Useless, useless,
the heavy rain
Driving into the sea
Drunk as a hoot owl,
writing letters
by thunderstorm
Nightfall,
boy smashing dandelions
with a stick
Glow worm
sleeping on this flower –
your light’s on
Holding up my
purring cat to the moon
I sighed
The sound of silence
is all the instruction
You’ll get
.
Jack Kerouac, 1922–1969
© Jack Kerouac
Photo by Pierre Jeanneret on Unsplash
