The Title Itself Is the Ninth Haiku

                                     Nine Cryptic Haiku

For a Coming Occasion

In My Birthday Month

 

 

I.

 

A strange circumstance,

That such important matters

Are forever dark!

 

 

II.

 

Starting a journey

On a steed that never strides

Yet always moves on.

 

 

III.

 

The poor trusting soul

Lets serpents in the child’s room

To keep rats away.

 

 

IV. 

 

Two grandfathers gone!

What unknown ingredients

They might have supplied.

 

 

V.

 

Crude bright foolish things,

The first tiny crumbs that lead

To beauty’s full feast.

 

 

VI.

 

Does this loneliness

Indicate a special fate

Or only sadness?

 

 

VII.

 

A green seed dropped in

The fertile pool of a young mind.

How it has sprouted!

 

 

VIII.

 

Rise up and strike them.

Remove the chains, eyes open,

And let storms inside.