Bound Dragonfly

Done for Carpe Diem Special #180 Ese's first haiku this month as featured haiku poetess "red dragonfly", written

 in the same tone, spirit and mood of her haiku below:

how calm she looks

with beads of dew frost on her wings

red dragonfly

© Ese of Ese’s Voice

I

old fighter jet
in a movie sky
two bound dragonflies

II
frothing gourd

the floating remains

of a scout bee

© Adjei Agyei-Baah, November 2015.

Leaping Fish

Done for Carpe Diem and written in Basho's Leap Linking style of haiku writing and with inspiration drawn from Jane Reichhold's haiku below:

leaping

a fish opens door

in the lake

(c) Jane Reichhold

I

swishing

between two worlds

leaping fish

II

flashing its silver

against the moonlight

leaping fish

III

lake bubbles a fish leaps with my heart

(C) Adjei Agyei-Baah, November 7, 2015.

Early Bird

Done for Carpe Diem and after Masoaka Shiki's Shasei haiku writing style which encourages poets "to depict the thing just as it is".

an early bird

at the tail of a late worm

first light

(c) Adjei Agyei-Baah, November 7, 2015

For The Mountains

Carpe Diem: Tsengel (Volcano)

Done for Carpe Diem

I

mountain top

the feeling of journeying along

with the passing clouds

II

on your rough edges

I made it to the top
mountain!

Copyright (c) Adjei Agyei-Baah, 4th November, 2015

Three Years of Haiku

Done for Carpe Diem #847 Kasuga Wakamiya Festival

I

continuous blossoming

of friends, far and near
three years of haiku

II

how quick my friends
have blossom into cherry
three years of haiku

(C) Copyright, 2nd Novemeber, 2015, Adjei Agyei-Baah