1.
Creosote darkness –
Refineries on the Turnpike
Tannin-colored skies
2.
Year draws short of breath –
Conspicuous consumption
Bright red Christmas lights
3.
Shattered streetlight glass –
Match strikes, cigarettes glowing
Darkness flashes teeth
qbit 
Awesome!
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I take no responsibility. These are your fault, LOL!
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All three really nice urban haiku. Memorable imagery.
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Thanks!!
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Awesome trifecta! Darkness is in trouble with you on its tail!
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Ahahaha! Thank you so much!
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Crisp images appear with the 1st and 3rd; for this reader, Gary, IN and my great uncle, the cabbie. The 2nd one I have been pondering for an hour… Not done pondering.
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Need your help with the second. Tuberculosis would demand bright red Christmas lights, not dark. Should I change?
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I like the enigmatic dark red and that is perhaps why I struggled to get a handle on it. Dark red is the color that preserves our night vision – that’s where I went with it. Denial; we chose not to see the ‘light’ in all its implications.
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Yes. That is why I went with dark. But the contrast with bright was fun too, but probably overly picky re the color required for coughing up blood.
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Wow! Dark and evocative! Life in the city. EXTREMELY well written.
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Thanks so much! And i get to cross “creosote” off the bucket list. LOL!
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I’ve never subscribed to bucket lists… I’m fairly certain “creosote” would not have made it onto mine. …well, maybe.
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LOL! I don’t actually have a bucket list. Just always surprised that words like tourmaline and creosote find their way to the page.
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Or opisthognathous. That’s always a good one.
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That is a toothsome mouthful! (had to look it up…)
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I’m glad I’m expanding your universe. Or perhaps, adding to your perplexity. Either way!
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Tag!
https://jillys2016.wordpress.com/2017/10/22/renga-dead-men-jillyqbit/
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“Whales playing tag…”
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Rhapsody of the Deep was yours – I just ran with it. 🙂
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Gave us a sense of porpoise!!!
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Hahaha! That is really bad!
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I think #2 is my favorite. We haven’t even hit Halloween and all the stores have trees and ornaments out for sale.
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Thanks. I agree, and it is also the darkest and most anti-haiku. BTW, would you vote for bright red lights over the dark red, e.g. a more technically accurate tuberculosis?
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I think that could work. Have you dropped that in with the other lines? I’d trying playing with the word order to make it more unusual.
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #11: Jilly and I pushed him, and so Qbit delivered with these brilliant haiku for my #haikai Challenge 4!
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