Category: Haikuish Objects

ㅁ
a planet of hats
another with suitcases
appeared in my dream

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
a pointless rampage
against amorphous powers
appeared in my dream

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
two twos, twice over,
a small series of doublets,
appeared in my dream

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
a linux server
that I didn't know I had
appeared in my dream

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
a well-drawn valley
all its contours well-formed
appeared in my dream

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
a secret passage
to the treehouse's attic
appeared in my dream

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
I'll end up like him:
angry, taciturn, anxious.
And I'll have no friends.

As an old person,
I'll insist that change is bad,
Reject solutions.

"Oh the kids these days...
Lazy and badly brought up.
Get off my damn lawn!"

"The world's getting worse
The system's out to get us."
What system is this?

Occam's razor says
Nah, it's random fluctuations.
There's no evil there.

Shrug. I'll hunker down,
A misunderstood hermit.
Let my soul get stale.

– six pseudo-haiku as stanzas in a longer poem.

ㅁ
We can complain more,
even about complaining,
get some sympathy.

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
The night was windy.
A giant tree-branch fell down
and bonked my treehouse.

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
Seize the day, they say.
The day slips out of your grasp.
You just do dumb stuff.

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
The night's not so dark.
I can walk along the road,
maybe notice rocks.

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
Demonstrative sighs -
sighs that call out, "I'm a sigh!"
Those sighs annoy me.
Sigh.

– a pseudo-haiku with an extra syllable coda.

ㅁ
Peripatetic -
given to walking around -
I will get nowhere.

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
The project was killed
by my lack of any skill
in the area.

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
A fish leapt upward
and entered the sky, briefly
and then slapped water.

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
I awoke, midnight
I rose and went down the stairs
I stood in the dark

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
the deer headed up
having spent time on the beach
worried about bears

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
the black bear was there
just loitering on the road
when the car came by

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
at least there's twilight
to illuminate the world
in vague black and white

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
He thinks I invent
past events just to annoy;
but for what purpose?

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
the people come in
to see what's in the gift shop
they walk around, leave

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
my mouth's full of mush
some mornings nothing feels right
my tongue's still half dead

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
Some maps show landscapes
that defy imaginings
and change what we know.

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
Like so many dreams,
I was studying language,
not understanding.

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
Several ravens
all congregated and squawked
below the treehouse.

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
The map showed errors.
"Reality's not that way."
Oh, but my dreams are.

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
I failed to write words
instead I only thought them
they escaped my grasp

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
Fog disrespects sea,
blurs its hard-won boundaries,
leaves it dissolute.

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
I awoke at night,
midway between the twilights,
and stood in the dark.

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
The weather forecast
denied that the rain was there
but I knew better.

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
drip, drop, drip, drop, drip...
drop, drop, drip, drop, drop, drip, drop...
drip, drop. Just sayin'.

– a pseudo-haiku. Subject:

ㅁ
The stone was alone.
The other stones' company
offered no solace.

– a pseudo-haiku.

ㅁ
See there's this one tree
over across the water.
It sticks up, taller.

– a pseudo-haiku.