Writing With Richard Wright - Ghost Writer Jen - November 13, 2014

In this post, I'm going to find inspiration to write a haiku with Richard Wright (1908-1960), guided by Jen of Blog It Or Lose It!.  We'd visited Richard Wright a while back with the Carpe Diem Haiku Kai - Little Creatures challenge, but it was nice to revisit this poet and read some of his other haiku.  Go HERE for the full post. The theme is “autumn” and/or “departure”:

cold autumn dawn

lit window among the trees

- more drizzling rain

black cat in the leaves

shakes its wet paw in disgust

- leaving for work

country living
seasonal brands for each day
 - persimmons rotting

©  G.s.k. '14

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And here are some examples of Richard Wright's haiku:

The chill autumn dusk

Grows colder as yellow lights

Come on in skyscrapers.

© Richard Wright

Autumn moonlight is

Deepening the emptiness

Of a country road.

© Richard Wright

As the popcorn man

Is closing up his wagon,

Snow begins to fall.

© Richard Wright

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And our hostess' haiku:

The first autumn snow

gleams blue on the parking lot

under the moonlight.

Next to the gutter

the raked-up pile of leaves

huddles under snow.

© Paloma