Haiku Oklahoma

Inspired by Poets United "I Wish I'd Written This" (about Kobayashi Issa) and by the holiday - a day off for all of us.  The holiday haiku assignment for us:  

On this holiday

Think seventeen syllables

Then go out and play.

The sooner to ride

My daugther did not delay

First gave seventeen:

"Take a walk in woods

Feel the breeze, see beauty, life,

Then see a dirt road."

My son not outdone

And to return to sketchbook

Gave the following:

"Haikus are poems.

They are very short and brief.

Haikus have meaning."

Five seconds to write,

But they did participate

And effort is praised.

And now four are mine

For Issa, Nature and her

Humans placed therewith:

1

 Honey locust lives;

Drought deals death to elm and oak.

Now more flat tires.

2
Osage oranges to
Gather, winter, mash, and grow
Living fence for us.

3
My hair freed from comb
Carried by wind to next spring
Woven in birds' nests.

4

Rosin, horsehair, wood

Vibrations flow through our hands.

Music in the woods.