Ten Haiku Poems by Gen Banks

Nature holds her breath

A watchful doe's ear twitches

Instincts alerted

 

~ Nature Holds Her Breath ~

GenKu - copyright - 26/08/2019

 

 

These mocking maybes

Taunt my sleep and tint each mood

Certainty eludes

 

~ Mock-a-bye Maybe ~

GenKu - copyright - 18/11/2019

 

 

Greed emptied the seas

The sky is awash with gulls

          begging for a feast

 

~ Emptinest ~

GenKu - copyright - 02/02/2020

 

 

The moon spreads her net

Captures lovers and dreamers

                  in her silver web  

 

~ The Silver Net ~

GenKu - copyright - 16/08/2019 

 

 

We march through the years 

in a procession of change;

altering costumes

 

~ Changes 1 ~

GenKu - copyright - 15/02/2020

 

 

Lament á la lune

Mourning love over too soon

Doves coo in sorrow

 

~ Lamentation ~

GenKu - 16/07/2019

 

 

We'd make perfect rhyme

As a couplet, convincing

Shame we're a haiku

 

~ Oh, Irony ~

GenKu - copyright - 01/10/2019

 

 

Forever is here

Now lasts for eternity 

If you hold that thought...

 

~ Forever Now ~

GenKu - copyright - 10/07/2019

 

 

paper plane love notes

air craft thrown across oceans

origami hearts

 

~ origami heart ~

GenKu - copyright - 03/07/2020

 

 

Falling water flows...

Cascades over terraced walls...

Old stone gathers moss

 

~FallingWater ~

GenKu - copyright - 02/05/2019

Gen Banks is an Australian writer of Sri Lankan and Italian heritage, and the mother of two grown children. 

As a person living with autism, Gen is passionate about advocating for others on the spectrum; for human and animal rights, environmental sustainability, and mental health awareness.

In addition to writing, she enjoys music, art, nature, and spending time with her menagerie of animal companions at her home in tropical Queensland.

Gen writes under the names Gen Banks, GenX, GenKu and Gothink Poetry. Her work has been published in The Literary Juggernaut; Dark Poetry Society e-zine; Raven Cage e-zine; Open Skies Quarterly and Dreamscape special edition; Impspired magazine; Poetic, Lie, Sense magazine; and on the website Compositor. Since 2019 she has been moderating poetry groups on Facebook.