Abstractions

Looking at the world of haiku with a different lens

Hello, Poetry Denizens!

I have something a little different for you today! Instead of my usual format, I’ve mixed up my creative practice by making some abstract haiku comics in the four-panel format that used to be common in newspapers (remember those?)

One of my secret dreams is to have a regular experimental haiku comic that runs in a magazine or newspaper. Since I’m unsure what publisher would even consider such an idea, I’m going to use this newsletter to fulfill that ambition from time to time.

I also want to remind you that starting Monday, January 15th, the price for a paid subscription to the Weirdo Poetry Newsletter is going to $7 a month or $70 a year.

Paid subscribers get access to the 3,500 Haiku Project and the Asynchronous Poetry Book Club. They also get exclusive member posts at least once a week and complimentary digital copies of every book and zine I publish.

CURRENT PAID SUBSCRIBERS AND NEW PAID SUBSCRIBERS WHO JOIN BEFORE 1/15/24 WILL BE LEGACIED INTO THEIR CURRENT PRICE STRUCTURE.

And now, your haiku comics:

lonely, wet asphalt
gleams with tri-color splendor
from traffic lights

fate bound by set of
inscrutable molecules
with capricious bonds

infinite exits,
each doorawy opens into
a long, dark hallway

I’d love to read some of your experimental haiku. Try writing something abstract or surreal. See how far you can stretch this form before it breaks!

Please share your poems in the comments!

Be the poetry you want to see in the world!

Cheers,

Jason