Poetic Musings: Coming Haiku by Jane Reichhold

coming home

flower

           by

               flower

1992 San Francisco Haiku Anthology

Jane Reichhold

Commentary: Within such an extremely short space of 5 words, Jane Reichhold successfully conveys a sense of great delight through both the visually alluring and emotionally resonant juxtaposition of "home and flowers" and the effective use of repetition. The flowers guide the narrator home.

And it might be interesting to do a thematic comparison reading of my haiku below:

first homecoming ...

the silence lengthened

tree by tree

A Hundred Gourds, 2:3, June 2013