Classics in haiku
Daily haiku journal in February for "2026, Year of Reading".
Posted by Martin Spence on Feb 27, 2026
Results for February Classic Books from the 20th and 21st centuries....
| class brings together | Normal People – Sally Rooney | 28/02/2026 |
| knowing love allows true growth | ||
| even when apart | ||
| graveside robbery | The Book Thief – Markus Zusak | 27/02/2026 |
| ashes belong to lost words | ||
| story worth telling | ||
| betrayal and guilt | The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini | 26/02/2026 |
| promise to be good again | ||
| kite flown for past sins | ||
| alone with tiger | Life of Pi – Yann Martel | 25/02/2026 |
| only option survival | ||
| story of two tales | ||
| four hands share the bread | A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry | 24/02/2026 |
| fine balance before despair | ||
| all hope caste away | ||
| Wellington deceased | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon | 23/02/2026 |
| logical, literal world | ||
| trained to find the truth | ||
| the art of the clone | Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro | 22/02/2026 |
| distant memory laid bare | ||
| of English schooling | ||
| hope walks the grey road | The Road – Cormac McCarthy | 21/02/2026 |
| son to trust in his goodness | ||
| carrying the fire | ||
| dreams of far afield | Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys | 20/02/2026 |
| white knight stripped identity | ||
| burning all desires | ||
| loneliness endured | The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway | 19/02/2026 |
| pride exhausted in defeat | ||
| hero to Manolin | ||
| the stroke of midnight | Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie | 18/02/2026 |
| life behind sliding doors born | ||
| with magic powers | ||
| grace under pressure | Death in the afternoon – Ernest Hemingway | 17/02/2026 |
| rituals combining art | ||
| drawn to mortal risk | ||
| worst birthday surprise | The Trial – Franz Kafka | 16/02/2026 |
| arrested by who knows who | ||
| to die like a dog | ||
| tale of broken trust | A Passage to India – E.M. Forster | 15/02/2026 |
| friendship waits for a new dawn | ||
| only time will tell | ||
| burning history | Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury | 14/02/2026 |
| memory from the ashes | ||
| reborn more humane | ||
| animal instincts | Animal Farm – George Orwell | 13/02/2026 |
| tyrants preach equality | ||
| some more equal now | ||
| the carnage of war | Catch-22 – Joseph Heller | 12/02/2026 |
| missions to insanity | ||
| protests fall silent | ||
| tracks beyond dust storm | The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck | 11/02/2026 |
| california made good | ||
| injustice rules hope | ||
| detachment from death | The Stranger – Albert Camus | 10/02/2026 |
| acceptance of the absurd | ||
| lacking emotion | ||
| racism's shadow | Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison | 09/02/2026 |
| an individual voice | ||
| beyond status quo | ||
| stream of consciousness | The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner | 08/02/2026 |
| faith, emotions overflow | ||
| their moral collapse | ||
| wizard’s guiding light | The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien | 07/02/2026 |
| in a land far, far away | ||
| enchants the children | ||
| the coming of age | The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger | 06/02/2026 |
| adolescent innocence | ||
| rebel with a cause | ||
| sacrifice of art | Brave New World – Aldous Huxley | 05/02/2026 |
| engineered love prevailing | ||
| a fight to expose | ||
| themes of solitude | One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez | 04/02/2026 |
| political upheaval | ||
| fiction at it's best | ||
| dystopia reigns | 1984 – George Orwell | 03/02/2026 |
| man's rewritten history | ||
| forbids love affair | ||
| show moral courage | To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee | 02/02/2026 |
| protecting the innocent | ||
| fails to right the wrong | ||
| ominous silence | Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak | 01/02/2026 |
| White Army charge on horseback | ||
| blood splatter on snow |
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