Summer Rain

Haiku and image by Dan Hardison
Photo: Wilmington, North Carolina


Sketchbook, Jul/Aug 2011 - Vol 6, No 3

Drops of Rain

Haiku and image by Dan Hardison
Photo: Wilmington, North Carolina


World Haiku Association, July 2013

Passage of Time

I remember her as a toddler – spindly legs and small for her age. We would go on walks together and when she tired, I would carry her on my shoulders. Then came adolescence and she worried about her weight and looks, but I knew it was just a phase as she passed into a pretty teen. Now she is starting college and talking about what she wants to do with her life. I look at this beautiful young woman, who is now taller than me, and I realize just how far we both have come.

growth rings of a tree
telling the passage of time . . .
marks on a doorframe


— Dan Hardison


Photo by Dan Hardison
Wilmington, North Carolina


Haibun, Contemporary Haibun Online - July 2013, vol 9 no 2

Footprints in the Sand

Haiku and image by Dan Hardison
Photo: Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina


World Haiku Association, June 2013

Days of Summer

Before plastic bottles, soft drinks (also known as soda pop) came in glass bottles. To encourage their reuse, the empty glass bottles could be returned for a deposit. But even with its bounty, glass bottles could still end up along the roadsides much as their plastic counterparts do today.

As a kid, we would bicycle down the road and collect these discarded bottles, and return them to a grocery store for their reward. Then we would buy candy and baseball trading cards with our newfound wealth.

clap, clap of cards
on the spokes of bicycles . . .
days of summer


— Dan Hardison


Photo by Dan Hardison
Brunswick County, North Carolina


Haibun, Contemporary Haibun Online - April 2013, vol 9 no 1