In her breathless way, she said…

Use words like flowers, too.

On the main navigation in this blog, you’ll see a page titled, “Writers Got Zen.”

I post new haiku there every few days (read that page to know more about why copywriters like me find haiku so wonderfully amazing). But when I created that page, I said I was not keeping an archive.

That was not exactly true.

I do still have every haiku I’ve written for this site. They were resting in an offline document, but then I found I kept referring back to that so often–finally, I figured, what the heck:

Here begins the official C.G.G. Haiku Archive Online.

I will post two haiku here each day, until I am caught up to the Zen page. Then, I will move each haiku to the archive when I replace it with a new one…

In her breathless way
She said, “My name is Michelle.”
Oh, I believed her.
–Ken, April 4 2009

By the sun baked wall
A wide sombrero slumbers
On folded elbows.
–Delbert Campbell
Winner (age 17+), 2003 Alameda CA haiku contest