Winter Storm Haiku Comics

Using haiku as a weather diary

Hello, Party People!

I enjoyed making the newspaper-style abstract haiku comics so much last week, that I tried a related experiment for today’s post. I made four abstract(ish) haiku comics with the first three being in black and white four-panel comics like you would see on weekdays in most newspapers, and the last one being a full-color, double-sized comic like you would see in the Sunday newspaper.

While I usually only put two poetry comics before the paywall, I’ve made all four free this week.

Two of the comics are about the ice storm we had this past weekend, and two of them are about the ice storm we had back in 2021.

One advantage to writing haiku about the things I experience is that my poems become a kind of weather journal. I can look back and remember how much worse our 2021 storm was. That year we lost power for two weeks—it was dreadful.

This year we have had power the entire time, and with only one more day of snow and ice predicted before we return to above-freezing temperatures, we have also avoided having any trees fall, unlike the last big storm.

Due to technical issues, there is no audio for today’s poems.

(written 1/14/24)

blindingly white ground
bleeds into plain gray sky
all monotony

(written 1/14/24)

trapped by frozen rain,
our world is bright ice rink
outside warm windows

(written 2/14/21)

nature reminds us
with a single storm
we are powerless

(written 2/14/21)

in the dark evenings
we play cards and the kids dance
flickering firelight