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Haikus for Word of the Day
A pocket full of poetry
4 min readMay 2, 2023
For this year’s poetry month, I wrote a haiku each day based on Merriam-Webster’s “Word for the Day.”
I posted my haikus on Twitter and asked fellow poets to join in the play. Many did and it was great fun to see how each poet used a word. All haikus were quite different.
You can check them out by going to my twitter feed @marykeatingpoet.
Below are my haiku poems in date order, starting a few days before April 1st. The word of the day is italicized in each haiku.
The Proposal
You are my first thought —
Videlicet, I love you
Let me be yours, too
Unfulfilled Desire
At night my dreams shape
Golems from subconscious thoughts
Shadows of true love
Trials Avoided
If only cancer
recused itself before it
could destroy our lives
Falling, Again
