ㅁ The raven set out, across the wide parking lot, preferring to walk.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Category: Book 4
Caveat: Poem #2766 “Not one”
ㅁ This haiku's not one. It starts out with the right shape, but then it kind of just rambles off in some kind of vague narrative.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2765 “Still more”
ㅁ The following day, the white powder doubled down, insulating all.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2764 “Interloper”
ㅁ So, in the morning, snow had taken possession of all the forest.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2763 “The slushification”
ㅁ Some snow might come and make things white, and smooth out nature's lines. But then the rain will follow that, and slushify those pines.
– a quatrain in ballad meter.
Caveat: Poem #2762 “Dream ending”
ㅁ In the dream: old walls... tumbled, fell, self-destructed... and nothing was left.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2761 “Unvisited”
ㅁ No one comes along. I celebrate solitude. No person stops by.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2760 “Not sure as to the topic”
ㅁ I saw six ravens, congregating in a tree, having discussions.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2759 “Advice”
ㅁ Today's "Don't Do List": Don't compose pointless haiku. Don't stare at your screen.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2758 “Momentum”
ㅁ With some momentum, I can manage to get through, but the day is long.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2757 “Moonset”
ㅁ Awake, four-thirty. I witness the setting moon: light off the water.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2756 “The disconnection”
ㅁ The world was unreal. Perceptions arose from minds, wholly untethered.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2755 “Seventy-eighth stanza”
ㅁ Kiamon couldn't forgive herself, then. Warm, springlike weather was rampant, again. She'd been upset at a stranger's request; Lurking anxiety'd made her quite stressed.
– a quatrain in dactylic tetrameter. One of a series of chronologically random quatrains about the protagonist of a novel I never make much progress on.
Caveat: Poem #2754 “Some assembly required”
ㅁ With fragments of time I can sketch out a full day like a vague collage.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2753 “Above the ridge”
ㅁ Three months in shadow. But then the sun clears the ridge... photons find the earth.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2752 “Newsless”
ㅁ If you please, some words? Can you summarize your day? Nah, nothing much new.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2751 “Now with AI assistant”
ㅁ No. We can't. It's too hard. Impossible. Unreasonable. So don't even ask us. On the other hand, there's this. It's a fine product, with AI. We burned a lot of coal making it.
– a reverse nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #2750 “So that’s nice, I guess”
ㅁ I derive pleasure from such simple things, sometimes: this morning's coffee.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2749 “Orderly transfer of power”
ㅁ I feel a bit lost, slogging through these recent weeks. Dreams have taken charge.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2748 “Hypnagogic preoccupations”
ㅁ I awake too early, yet again. The worries displace the thick dreams, which nevertheless linger, so worries about work are flavored with ghosts disconsolate and surreal remnant webs
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #2747 “Driving at night”
ㅁ Those little sparkles, frozen droplets among trees, tiny cartoon stars.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2746 “Holy”
ㅁ So. Holy, holy, holy, holy... the potholed road of Port Saint Nick an old stretch of tree-lined road beside the rolling sea on rainy muskeg in Alaska where I live alone. So.
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #2745 “The song was important, somehow”
ㅁ In the dream, a robot read my blog... was moved to write a disco song. The song provided backing to subsequent events, including crashes, mad truck races, woodworking, aimless talks..
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #2744 “Intention”
ㅁ I try to make sense, but meanings disassemble, contexts become lost.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2743 “Predator”
ㅁ I'll wake up sometimes, hunt around my room for words, pick up some spare ones.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2742 “Sudo”
ㅁ I craved great power... a poem for an admin: sudo cat haiku
– a sudo-haiku. A note of explanation: this haiku is an inside joke, for those familiar with linux system administration.
Caveat: Poem #2741 “Distortions on the territory’s map”
ㅁ Like drizzle but frozen: the snow had come, a slow world-filling, tree and stone covering, gradual envelopment, muting the atmosphere's flavors, leaving the territory all blurred.
– a reverse nonnet
Caveat: Poem #2740 “An implicit teleology”
ㅁ so at last it happened snow made contact piled up on the ground not really that deep though still I got the shovel out and scraped the powder off the steps left footprints across the neighborhood
– a reverse nonnet
Caveat: Poem #2739 “The origins of consciousness”
ㅁ Consciousness arose, very unexpectedly, around 3 AM.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2738 “A godless theogony”
ㅁ the nothing dreamed it and it bloomed into something which filled with wonder
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2737 “Just barely attached”
ㅁ here there are no trees just arborescent yearnings bound to the world's edge
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2736 “Observations”
ㅁ the current haiku seems to lack theme and function: just a pile of words
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2735 “Mute”
ㅁ At a loss for words, the poet failed to express this here idea.
– a pseudo-haiku.