Haiku: The Wagon

I wanted a poetic structure that would fit this simple but compelling composition. I decided on a series of haiku that combine the sky, the ocean, the shore and the wagon in a brief story about hope and hardship. Or consider each haiku on its own merit! I found inspiration in Richard Wright’s This Other World and William Carlos Williams’ The Red Wheelbarrow. I took this photograph on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.

I

A Red Green wagon

Rests upon this lonely shore,

Waiting for the storm.

II

Coming to this land

With the guidance of his hand;

Home under the Skye.

III

This wagon once hauled

All that my life could carry,

To this vacant shore.

IV

The storm is coming,

My wagon awaits the rain;

A silent watchman.

V

Far from the city,

Sits a wagon with Red wheels,

By the ocean sky.