Sequences

One of the haiku arts is creating sequences. They might be narrative, all on a theme, or have some particular creative constraint or central idea. Here are a few of my haiku sequences, plus a few tanka sequences for good measure. For collaborative thematic poetry, see also the Rengay page, or visit the Collaborations page for selections of symbiotic poetry.

★ = most recommended (start with these sequences) 

Haiku

    After the Fall (four haiku)
    Angels We Have Heard On High (eight Christmas haiku)
★ Avonlea (17 haiku)
    Blocked by Clouds (five haiku)
    Buried (11 funeral haiku)
    Crocheting (eight haiku)
    Dew on a Rose (eight erotic haiku)
    Expecting (five pregnancy haiku)
★ Fine Lines (20 haiku)
★ Five Seasons (20 haiku)
    For Henry (three haiku)
    For Leonard Cohen (five haiku)
★ Four Directions (four haiku)
★ The Haijin’s Tweed Coat (11 haiku, with a twist)
    Haiku Lessons (13 haiku)
★ I’ll Go See (four haiku, after Bashō)
    Into a Roiling Sea (14 funeral haiku)
    Into Song (six haiku)
★ Kazooku (four previously undiscovered classics by the haiku masters)
★ The Last Leaf (seven earthquake haiku)
★ The Mended Shōji (26 haiku about a trip to Japan)
    moonrain (five rain haiku)
    Moving Day (22 pregnancy haiku)
    Neighbours (just two haiku)
★ Pop Fly (12 baseball haiku)
    Postcards from France (five Paris haiku)
    Rainbow (seven colour haiku)
    The Renga Party (11 haiku)
★ Seasoning (13 haiku)
★ Separation (17 haiku)
    Seven Flowers of Autumn (seven haiku)
★ Shēngxiào / 生肖 (12 haiku)
    Sleeping Over (12 erotic haiku)
    Take Me Out to the Ballgame (four haiku)
★ Text-ku (13 haiku)
★ Thornewood Poems (41 hiking haiku)
★ Treadmill (seven Y2K haiku)
    The Widow’s Shadow (five haiku)
    Valtec (four science fiction haiku)

Tanka

★ The Second Eye (five tanka)
    Still I Go (nine haiku and a tanka)
    With a Start (three tanka)