Poetry: a dozen haiku: Gen

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Title: a dozen haiku
Rating: Gen
Length: 150
Notes: haiku x 12 (one for each of the stories in Adventures)


1. March. Blows in proud King.
Blows out woman. The Woman.
Storm turned farewell breeze.

2. league of autumn hues
fiery red drawn (to, by) gold
(falls, is run) to ground

3. Love’s spring hides winter’s
avarice. The seasons of
Mary Sutherland.

4. June’s glass, unlike past,
twenty-nine, holding steady
in Boscombe Valley.

5. Equinoctial gale
gives the innocent, guilty
the September pip.

6. Orange blossom brides
left for season-less den,
a twisted June Boone.

7. Holly and Mercy,
Yuletide spirits are best served
when your goose is cooked.

8.  home-grown wickedness
exotic menagerie
fear’s no April fool

9. midsummer garden
beds of bloomin’ trick-me-lots
a phantom green thumb

10. bleak autumnal eve
relics, noble and less so,
throw their weight about

11. bright February
sun on snow dazzles like gems
blinds like gold-set truth

12. flight from yellow fog
a certain Copper horror
a nip in the air

Comments

[debriswoman]

Wonderful...still working out one or two before resorting to the book:-p

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yes, I suppose the form is sparse enough to make them riddle-like. I corrected 1. to read King instead of Duke.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

These are wonderful - a very impressive collection, and I like the way they fit into the different months - a whole year's worth.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I know technically haiku are supposed to have both seasonal and cutting words. ACD obliged giving me a month or season with each story. Cutting words, I tried to fit in, not always successful.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

It's such a great idea and so well executed ^__^

I think my favourites are 1, 7, and 11.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I tried to keep in with the spirit of haikus, and surprisingly Doyle gave me a time of year/month reference for each of the stories.

[mafief.livejournal.com]

Alright, these are my guesses below. Testing out my canon knowledge in the process. :)

1. SCAN
2. REDH
3. ?
4. BOSC
5. GLOR?
6. FIVE
7. BLUE
8. CARD???
9. DYIN
10. MUSG or ILLU?
11. GOLD?
12. COPP

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Congrats, you got half! 3. is A Case of Identity 5. is The Five Orange Pips 6. is The Man with the Twisted Lip 8. is The Speckled Band 9. is The Engineer's Thumb 10. is the Noble Bachelor and 11. is The Beryl Cornet.