looking upwards
the matron thinks of daisies
he loves me – or not
from her vantage point of years
she thinks that daisies lie
Written for Mindlovesmisery’s Menagerie for Heeding Haiku with Ha … an interesting exercise, open a dictionary and choose three words at random – the words I found were: upwards – matron – vantage which I found on my Italian – English Dictionary.
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Almost a kyoka perhaps?
And perhaps the matron is right?
🙂
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Yep … it is isn’t it. I thought about that after I’d tagged it as a tanka … maybe i should change the tag … what do you say?
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Perhaps not a bad idea!
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Yep … did it this mornig on the WP post.
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I love the last line – so abrupt and unexpected. Beautiful!
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Glad you enjoyed … I think this was probably a kyoka though as Jen pointed out … such a fine line between the two, but the humourous ending say kyoka.
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