ㅁ It's raining again! The drought was worrying me. It lasted two hours.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Category: Haikuish Objects
Caveat: Poem #2269 “Structural weaknesses”
ㅁ the wind was quite strong it blew through town all day long and the building creaked
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2267 “Onomastics”
ㅁ if i name each thing each particle in the world then i'll be finished
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2266 “They said it was a failure of compliance”
ㅁ Then I had a dream where I was in a prison off in Korea.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2265 “Unstructured time”
ㅁ the day lacked structure there was no morning, no night it was just pure fog
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2264 “On the subject of composition”
ㅁ I sought out some words. They failed to appear as hoped. So instead: these words.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2261 “The regular”
ㅁ Yesterday it rained. Not that uncommon round here, in the rainforest.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2258 “Aggressive lumber”
ㅁ The two-by-fours fell, and they tried to bonk my head... bruised both hands badly.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2256 “Broad horizons”
ㅁ The windshield's long crack is mostly horizontal; it doesn't grow much.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2246 “Up before dawn”
ㅁ the equinox fled folding the nights into days like a coffee stain
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2244 “Indecisiveness”
ㅁ I awoke, restless. The night loitered, damp and dark. And then I went out.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2241 “Heat map”
ㅁ It was a heat map, showing where the cells died first... better known as "leaf".
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2237 “Eventualities”
ㅁ then some stars appeared with the day's leftover clouds and the night had come
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2236 “Coda”
ㅁ years of wasted life replete with many failures appeared in my dream
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2233 “Surpassed”
ㅁ a GPT-3 writing better poetry appeared in my dream
– a pseudo-haiku. GPT-3 is a recent type of AI (artificial intelligence). It’s “an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text” – per wikipedia.
Caveat: Poem #2232 “Freely given”
ㅁ the luminous moon a gift from reticent gods appeared in my dream
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2231 “Reflection”
ㅁ a half-assed poet spouting repetitive themes appeared in my dream
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2230 “Source of rage”
ㅁ a thuggish bully citing immoral motives appeared in my dream
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2229 “개”
ㅁ 귀찮안 개는 나무를 너무 봐요. 야, 왜 그렇게?
– a pseudo-haiku in elementary Korean. I composed it in my head (while walking the dog) with my remnants of active vocabulary, and it seems like I got the grammar right, but I found I had to look up various words’ spellings to write it down. My literacy skills are even rustier than my speaking/listening skills.
Here is a translation into English, retaining the haiku form:
An annoying dog looking at too many trees. Hey, why be like that?
Caveat: Poem #2227 “Monastic”
ㅁ a small roadside cave with a sofa and some books appeared in my dream
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2226 “Purpose”
ㅁ eccentric children unknown sons and daughters appeared in my dream
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2225 “Retrospective”
ㅁ a sleeping dragon covered in rainbow-hued scales appeared in my dream
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2224 “This week’s episode”
ㅁ a planet of hats another with suitcases appeared in my dream
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2223 “Unsolved”
ㅁ a pointless rampage against amorphous powers appeared in my dream
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2222 “Numerological”
ㅁ two twos, twice over, a small series of doublets, appeared in my dream
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2221 “Bonus”
ㅁ a linux server that I didn't know I had appeared in my dream
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2220 “Artistry”
ㅁ a well-drawn valley all its contours well-formed appeared in my dream
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2219 “Get the ladder”
ㅁ a secret passage to the treehouse's attic appeared in my dream
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2218 “The current state of things”
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.
Caveat: Poem #2217 “Try this at home”
ㅁ We can complain more, even about complaining, get some sympathy.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2216 “Midnight surprise”
ㅁ The night was windy. A giant tree-branch fell down and bonked my treehouse.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2214 “Carpe diem”
ㅁ Seize the day, they say. The day slips out of your grasp. You just do dumb stuff.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2213 “On the road”
ㅁ The night's not so dark. I can walk along the road, maybe notice rocks.
– a pseudo-haiku.