Every February writer poet musician Harold who resides in Terrace fires up his “Haiku Train” and about 10 or 15 of us follow along the tracks for the month. Here are my contributions for Feb. 2026

Feb 1

‘Tis February?
Thought t’was still January…
Winter clogs the brain

Feb 2

The Wicked Witch
Of the North West encased
My world in ice

Feb 3

At four a.m the Tooth
Fairy took my dentures
from their cup
(She wanted a cookie and had no teeth in her head)

Feb 4

I sit in my chair
And feel the vibration
At four in the morn

Feb 5

Brown snowballs
‘Longside a brown road
Too early for spring

Feb 6

Chickadee sang his
Winter song along with
A springtime tweet

Feb 7

Early morning
body hurts. I check to see
what doesn’t work. (all is good!)

Feb 8

Kids now in their
Sixties, youngest fifty-one.
I tell myself, “well done”

Feb 9

Humans will survive
Immune systems on high
Combating viruses

Feb 10

Love in Your Eighties
Daughter wrote the song
We are living it

Feb 11

Knitted slippers
Someone made long ago
Keep my feet warm

Feb 12

Back in nineteen-ten
Salt mine along the Skeena
Bring your own shaker!

Feb 13

“Do you save lives?” I
Ask paramedics. “No,
We just prolong them”  [“prolong the inevitable”  is what was actually said]

Feb 14

All was grey, the woods
Land, sky, my thoughts and I
Then the sun came out!

Feb 15

Vanderhoof, lovely
Drive, lunch and flowers
‘Twas Valentines Day!

Feb 16

East wind blowing snow
Over bare brown spaces.
Good fire protection!

Feb 17

Somber grey morning
Pale blue sky on horizon
Perhaps some sunshine?

Feb 18

Chinese genes mingle
With English , Dutch, German
One percent Vietnam

Feb 19

All is whimsical at
This stage in life, old gals
Just wanna have fun

Feb 20

Water drips from tap
Used to drip from a pail on
A rope in the well

Feb 21

Husband makes models
Our place resembles a
Nuclear laboratory!

Feb 22

History up in smoke
Sixty years’ young for people
Old for a building

Feb 23

Figure skaters can
Manipulate their bodies
So beautfully

Feb 24

When is a cold not
A cold- when it’s too dry or
Too damp in the house

Feb 25

Too much Spam and what’s
Worse, Scam, bought some pills
That ain’t worth a dang

Feb 26

Upside down society
Let sixteen-year-olds vote
It’s their future!

Feb 27

If you’re happy in
religion clap your hands
or stomp your feet

Feb 28

The haiku train stopped
Off we marched into April
See you next year!