Mood haiku and tanka are the sub-genres of mood poetry, a type of poetry with the focus on moods, which are created by the poet for the readers and to evoke certain feelings in them. Mood is sometimes described as the “emotional landscape” of the poem. It is the feelings that the reader gets from reading the poem as a whole.
Selected Mood Haiku:
tiny sips
to make it last
autumn twilight
Bill Kenney
night chill
rearranging the order
of canned soups
Fay Aoyagi
falling leaves ...
reading the same line
over and over
Brendon Kent
house clearance
room by room by room
my mother disappears
Alan Summers
living alone
telling one cry of a crow
from another
Elmedin Kadric
the news on mute ...
I'm quiet and quieter
as my old dog sleeps
Chen-ou Liu
to be continued ...
Selected Mood Tanka:
at dawn
on a mountain pass
in the drifting fog
almost imperceptible
the smell of green tomatoes
Kenji Miyazawa
into a pair of stars
we will turn—till then
let us never recall
autumn’s voice
we heard in the same bed
Akiko Yosano
with each quiver
it is laying an egg
a white moth
why did it enter my mind
this frosty night?
Samio Maekawa
dusk gathers
with the alchemy
of ravens . . .
alone, in a clearing
my heart picked clean
Robin Anna Smith
and when
the sand runs out?
the stillness
of the hourglass
and I are one
Denis M. Garrison
a drizzly day,
with yellow leaves pasted
to wet black pavement --
returning the library books
she left behind
Larry Kimmel
migrant
detention
sunset
ladders
the sky
LeRoy Gorman
New Delhi draped
in layers of toxic haze
this sense of dread
as October rolls around
chokingly dark... and darker
a girl
sticks her tongue out
at snowflakes
her mother's smiling face
in the shelter window
Chen-ou Liu
to be continued ...
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