I saw prisoners
sowing wildflowers
by the road today
The poem of the week was written by Geoffrey Wilson, author of 100 Mississippi Delta Blues Haiku, a collection of haiku that explores the similarity of life in the Mississippi Delta, even the Blues, and everything Southern, to the agrarian life that spawned Japanese haiku.
Poem by Geoffrey Wilson
Picture by Dmitry Chizhov
This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.
You have seven days from the posting of this haiku to submit your track. For information on how to make a submission, visit the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge page.
Submission deadline: 29th June 2016