Happy Valentine’s Day from the Faeries and Me

Valentine Haiku

A Japanese poet recently got stranded in the land of “the folk.”  The poet decided to use his time there to teach a Haiku workshop.  Winter being a slow time for the faeries, the workshop was very well attended.  The result is this lovely collection of poems from a bit of, shall we say, a different perspective. 

From the Troll

Your beautiful eye

Blinks and wanders

toward the sky

As chocolate melts 

From the Ogre

I’ve captured your heart

My little bunny FuFu

Thump-bump, thump-
bump, . . .thump

From the Fairies

My love, drink your fill

Of my fairy food partake

Hope you like it here

From the Witch

Your lips shiny slugs

Your eyes brown bogwater pools

Bubble, boil, . . . burp!

From the Pixies

It gives such pleasure 

To take precious possessions

You look so puzzled

From the Faun

To gambol once more

Laughing in the golden sun

Your warm tin can breath

From the Dragon

Your lance nicks hard scales

My flame melts your silver garb

Your turn. . . . HEY, YOUR TURN! 

From the Faerie Queene

Apply the ointment

See how glamourous you are?

Wait ‘til you get home : (

(I’m not sure if the : ( is traditional in true Japanese Haiku.  

But that’s what I love about hanging out with the faeries.  

They just don’t care.)