Salad Haiku

In honor of National Poetry Month, here is a poem from the children's poetry book Food Fight. Haiku is a poetic form that originated with Japanese nature poetry. It's usually, as here, three lines with the form 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables.

Salad Haiku

by W. Nicola-Lisa

On this leafy bed

slices of cucumber sleep,

cold as winter dimes.

Tomatoes will squish

no matter how you cut them.

Even prayers won't help.

Spinach comes with dirt!

That's just how it is sometimes--

good and bad in one.

Whether whole or sliced,

olives sink like submarines,

and will not surface.

Red onions or white?

It doesn't matter to me--

crying is crying!