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 most of my haiku sequences, plus a few tanka sequences for good measure, and at least one of these is probably just short poetry. I have also adapted several of these sequences as PowerPoint presentations. 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 Sequences
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)
By the Numbers (10 haiku)
Covid Days (eight pandemic haiku by eight poets)
Crocheting (eight haiku)
Dew on a Rose (eight erotic haiku)
Down the Lane (five 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)
Into the Woods (seven 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)
Migration (seven salmon haiku)
moonrain (five rain haiku)
Moving Day (22 pregnancy haiku)
Neighbours (just two haiku)
The Night Watchman (five narrative 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)
Seven Suns Story (35 poems)
★ Shēngxiào / 生肖 (12 haiku)
Silver Light (six haiku)
Sleeping Over (12 erotic haiku)
Star Wheel (28 haiku)
Take Me Out to the Ballgame (four haiku)
★ Text-ku (13 haiku)
★ Thornewood Poems (41 hiking haiku)
Tokyo to Kamakura (five haiku)
★ Treadmill (seven Y2K haiku)
Twilight (four haiku)
The Widow’s Shadow (five haiku)
Valtec (four science fiction haiku)
Tanka Sequences
★ The Second Eye (five tanka)
★ Shichifukujin: The Seven Lucky Gods (seven tanka)
Still I Go (nine haiku and a tanka)
★ We Are All God’s Poems (five tanka)
With a Start (three tanka)