Birch Trees in Autumn and Assorted Haiku

Susan Macdonald
1 min readOct 30, 2019

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Birch Trees in Autumn

5:Yellow leaves, white bark

8: Bark like ermine: white, black speckles

5: Birch trees in autumn.

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5: Haiku don’t work well

9:In English; if you can’t hear meter

6: Or find rhymes, try haiku
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3: Five, an image

8: Seven, a verb or sensation

5: Five, Conclude, an image.

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4: Haiku are hard

8: Syllables don’t cooperate

4: Not and make sense

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6: Save this, edit later

6: Try harder, write better

5: Five, seven, five more

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Susan Macdonald
Susan Macdonald

Written by Susan Macdonald

Wordsmith, freelance writer, Mama, stroke survivor. BA, San Diego State University (English major, anthropology minor). Schoolmarm when my health permits.

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