My other hobby, I guess aside from playing tennis; so I have two other hobbies aside from my pipes, is writing haiku. I love the simplicity and elegance of the style. A well written haiku can say so much in very few words. Well I was inspired this morning, after a short smoke, tow write a few pipe related haiku. Not my first pipe haiku, but some really nice ones I thought. So here ya are.
btw, modern haiku has done away with the syllable counting thing, so don't go looking for a 5-7-5 thing.
Hope you enjoy.
leaf crumbles
gently placed in the bowl
and sent home
wisp drift
on this rainy morning
hanging on the wind
the pipe speaks
softly
telling its gentle tale
long years of use
give this briar
a personality of its own
the wood and I
journey quietly
only to part ways upon death
inside this block
lay the seeds
of much pleasure
with sand paper
I search
for the block’s life
each dimple
reaches for
the sky
oddly geometric
the grains
grow
with each breath
the briar learns
its new home
lighting the pipe
carved by my own hand
begins its second life
with artful errors
the briar shows me
how it is to be