first frost
anoraked children
with no hands
anoraked children
with no hands
posted by John McDonald at 10:03 am
Sunday, November 05, 2006
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2 Comments:
Nice!
Brrrrr!
The last line is great, because for a moment I feared the worst (frostbite) but they are just keeping their hands warm.
It reminds me of two other haiku:
snow flurry
a child thrusts his anorak
into it
Alan Summers
Simply Haiku: September 2003, Vol. 1, No. 3
Simply Haiku
A boy.
He's hiding winter
in his pockets.
Alojz Jembrih
100 Hrvatskih Haiku
100 Croatian Haiku
isbn 953-6837-06-4
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