The Academy of American Poets has designated April as National Poetry Month. As a handweaver and lover of words, I believe poets and handweavers have a lot in common. Poets interlace words and weave beautiful poems just as weavers interlace warp and weft to make beautiful cloth. Inkle weaving is a simple basic weave structure that, with a bit of imagination, can produce wonderful cloth. Likewise, a haiku, a simple poem woven of three lines of five, seven, and five syllables respectively, with a bit of imagination can produce wonderful verse.
So here, in honor of National Poetry Month, I give you my simple inkle haiku.
House needs to be cleaned.
Laundry is overflowing.
Instead, I will weave.
What does your inner poet have to say. Please, share your haiku with me!
warp, weave, be happy!
~Jennifer
inkled pink 
Jennifer! I love your comparison of Haiku and Inkles. I, too, love Haiku and submitted two weaving haiku poems to the Handwoven Haiku competition. I didn’t win, which is fine, but I also don’t remember them and cannot find them.
I will see if a new one comes to me. I’ve learned that I have to wait for them to come, I’m no good at making them come. Yours is great!
Isn’t that like most creative endeavors, you can’t force the inspiration. This came to me because it is my constant dilemma. Please do share if you remember them, or if a new one comes to you!
I love this so much! Thank you for making such a beautiful connection…
hibernation ends
colours spring up thread by thread
stretch out on my loom
Oooo, JQ that’s a good one! A perfect springtime haiku.