other people watch but that really means nothing one makes one's choices
– a pseudo-haiku
Category: Haikuish Objects
Caveat: Poem #1074 “The teachers”
sand and rocks here, there on the ground and in my shoes rocks and sand teach, wait
– a pseudo-haiku
Caveat: Poem #994 “Revelation”
another haiku: about rain, about trees - words revealing the world
– a pseudo-haiku
Caveat: Poem #899 “Passage”
ㅁ it stands like a frame within are random branches a gate into green
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #898 “Spilling downward”
ㅁ moon above a tree tilted to drop its insights on the deer below
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #897 “From the manual”
ㅁ The key to friendship, harmonious family: Patience with silence.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #896 “An excursion in an automobile”
ㅁ driving across land volcano-punctuated and littered with tree
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #895 “Advice I have failed to take”
ㅁ people are where they are it's hard to pull them somewhere meet them where they are
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #894 “A trip to the east”
ㅁ there's no light outside the sun is lost in the east but we're headed there
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #893 “How to dream”
ㅁ I dream like a dog, run after unseen phantoms, taste the air, sighing
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #891 “Progress studies”
ㅁ gray shades to purple shadows become silhouettes rain licks leafless trees
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #890 “Wayfinding”
ㅁ a tree is a map outlining the passages from earth into air
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #889 “As motels will do”
ㅁ When your motel bed has four large, plump, white pillows so you try each one...
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #885 “The next chapter”
ㅁ a slice of dead snow birds lurk in branches, gazing a doom of stillness
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #884 “Missing a rib”
ㅁ A pale, flesh-toned earth... Adam's discarded remains... desiccated clay
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #883 “As deserts will do”
ㅁ The desert dwells, gold, among bleached stones and dark shrubs - the people zoom by.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #882 “A hike in the hills above Pasadena”
ㅁ white stone and cactus a stream sparse with clear water the leaning sun's gaze
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #880 “What’s going on”
ㅁ the wind will go on and leaves will struggle, strong, and the wind will go on
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #879 “The anthropomorphizing impulse”
ㅁ attachments arise to random machinery and they feel like friends
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #878 “Praxis”
ㅁ How can smart people believe such unlikely things? I prefer walking.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #876 “Announcements”
ㅁ a predawn chorus: roosters assaulting the air filling the desert
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #875 “Domestic detachment”
ㅁ just a few cookies out in the patio sun where a child orbits
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #874 “Metempsychosis”
ㅁ a token of mind fragments of meditation filigreed like clouds
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #873 “That habit of writing poems in the morning”
ㅁ A few words gathered and presented to the dawn who yawns, disdainful.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #872 “Resolution”
ㅁ A breaking, cold dawn edges forward, gently helps inspire joy, kindness.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #871 “For later study”
ㅁ In Oklahoma the black cows graze the red fields held down by the sky.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #870 “Evidence”
ㅁ People believe things that appear in front of them... for example: sky.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #869 “In southeast Oklahoma”
ㅁ the fogged sun rises a pond swallows the bare trees and cows malinger.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #868 “The wasteland”
ㅁ a man-made desert made of asphalt and dead grass... a small bird finds seeds.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #867 “Keeping time”
ㅁ old music reveals human minds' complexities and time just passes
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #865 “Summary of a ghost’s sojourn”
ㅁ known to be unknown an odd sort of infamy adrift in the woods
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #864 “The obstinacy of inanimate stuff”
ㅁ the snow malingers where it fell, stubborn and cold, impertinently.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #863 “Aspirationally asemic”
ㅁ the names that things have are not fixed, but rather drift unnamed, dawn happens
– a pseudo-haiku.