ㅁ the wind foretold rain the rain came then in great sheets assaulting the night
– a pseudo-haiku.
Category: Haikuish Objects
Caveat: Poem #3003 “Inertial conditions”
ㅁ having fallen down seemed best to just take a rest and get up later
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #3001 “A thing that happened”
ㅁ the Fall's first frost came, painted the dock and pier white; some ducks swam away.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2999 “Dream journal”
ㅁ I had a bad dream. I was so angry, I raged. I wrecked the gift store.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2996 “The discovery”
ㅁ Some crows found a truck, which was black, just like they were. They seemed to like this.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2994 “Progress”
ㅁ the blueberry shrub outside the kitchen window has turned bright purple
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2990 “Outward”
ㅁ there's no sense of rest no respite from nagging guilt sleep is all that's left
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2989 “Surrender”
ㅁ Lately I hate life. I feel nothing anymore. Why do I bother?
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2987 “Unrecorded events”
ㅁ with rain, came dragons, who all coiled in the treetops supervising sleep
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2986 “Precepts beyond history”
ㅁ rain came this weekend filled the downhill-rushing creeks turned over some stones
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2984 “Reason to not”
ㅁ "No time like present" - except all those other times that were just like now.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2981 “Zzzap!”
ㅁ Twenty years later, I still get "brain zaps" sometimes. Yay SSRIs.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2976 “Prisoner of conscience”
ㅁ My brain is captive, imprisoned in a hard skull... limited options.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2974 “These past few weeks”
ㅁ Slowly, over time, I become more and more tired, until I must sleep.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2970 “The plan”
ㅁ they say death is real, but we must deceive ourselves: be fake immortals.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2969 “Reactive”
ㅁ easy: do nothing wait for events to impel but then take action
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2968 “Replacement”
ㅁ ...joyfully displaced from the places I've been placed by fate or fortune.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2963 “A vorpal haiku”
ㅁ Fentwithe, he dysbawked, impormevisly dehonged, abrue maffended.
– a pseudo-haiku. This poem is nonsense, in the style of Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky. But to be clear, much of my internal monologue is like this.
Caveat: Poem #2962 “Surrender”
#Poetry #Haiku #Senryu
ㅁ the alder leaves fade sometimes fail to turn yellow just fall down instead
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2960 “Last night’s sunset”
ㅁ the sky became large under the clouds' influence drunk on gold sunlight
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2957 “The vacuum of deep space”
ㅁ Sometimes I fail to write. The morning plays out, empty. There's no poetry.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2955 “Oneiric visitation”
ㅁ I dreamed that she died. My mother became a ghost. She came to visit.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2953 “So many shirts”
ㅁ We got many shirts here at our little gift store I spent hours folding
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2948 “The way through”
ㅁ the next wor(l)d exists after the previous wor(l)d in liminal space
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2946 “The war was lost”
ㅁ the raindrops commenced a war on the earth and trees which was quickly lost
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2942 “Saṃsāra”
ㅁ Forest demons watch time's debilitating wheel and they gloat, with joy.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2941 “Getting there”
ㅁ A slug was westbound near the water cistern's base. A mindful commute.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2939 “Cope”
ㅁ overwhelmed, day to day... zoom in on particulars, and just try to cope
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2934 “Alternate definition”
ㅁ so. these words don't mean what you think they really mean. instead, they just fade.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2933 “Woke up, and then…”
ㅁ It's four forty-one, so early in the morning: unmotivated.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2927 “POEM”
ㅁ I YELL A LOT NOW, WHEN I'M AT HOME ANYWAY: LIVE WITH SOMEONE DEAF
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2921 “Reflections on the act of composition”
ㅁ "Well that was lousy," I mused, reading the haiku. "Still. It's out there, now."
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2920 “On just getting on with it”
ㅁ "I should write a poem," I told myself. Then I said, "I've done it before."
– a pseudo-haiku.