Watercolour on Paper: a Haiku – Haiga, from My “Poems from Home” Collection

There’s a lot of chattering of pots and pans, every time I go to my saucepan drawers. Sometimes it’s like all out war!

I grab for a saucepan lid, and it’s slid way up the back…I reach to get it and I’m: attacked by a metal grater, snapped at by saucepan handles, and held back by the corner of another lid, jammed in by the drawer beneath it – like a joint effort, to not let me in! By stealth and determination – most of the time I win.

Sometimes, they are in order, and I find just the right saucepan and lid quite easily. One day I plan to get more of these handy drawers – and have no more kneeling on the floor, trying to reach into a far corner of a low cupboard!

Over the years, there’s hardly been a dull moment in my kitchen. Just as well, as this is where as a mum (or “mom”) of four boys (now young men) I’ve spent many, many hours – and in the laundry.

I still make well worn paths around my kitchen and to the washing machine, but what a blessing it is, to have the privilege of a home and family.

Hope you enjoy my haiku and haiga and my post which, especially with the splash and play of “rhyme” and “personification”, seems to have almost turned into a poem!

Have a great day!