ㅁ And it came to pass that Arthur and I got home; the moon shone brightly.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Category: Haikuish Objects
Caveat: Poem #2314 “Buddha nature”
ㅁ It seems that the key is to time it precisely: enlightened at death. It would be easy: approximate asymptote, like Zeno's story. Perhaps many folks succeed in this task. Indeed... maybe all do it.
– three pseudo-haiku as stanzas in a longer poem.
Caveat: Poem #2313 “Things that happened on a drive to Eugene”
ㅁ I drove a few hours. There was snow and there was rain; also, some rainbows.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2310 “A hungry demon”
ㅁ Time consumed the days, but then it moved on to years, and ate all those too.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2309 “Encounter”
ㅁ A deer just stood there. It wondered why I stood there. Beings... standing there.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2307 “Bigness”
ㅁ The ocean was big; it hurled big waves at the rocks, but the sea-mist hung.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2305 “A true story of abandonment”
ㅁ A man came, and knocked. He told a story: "God left me." We could not help him.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2300 “Undriven”
ㅁ four-thirty, pre-dawn... city streets: just as empty as Alaska's roads
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2299 “The procession”
ㅁ there was slow traffic cars creeping like sad hippos along the I-10
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2297 “An ode to The Angels”
ㅁ
The One Thirty-four
embraced me, like a lover,
replayed old commutes;
the gray skyline hung
against an orangish wall
defined by the air;
I went to Burbank
and tasted the sidewalk there,
consumed memories;
I miss my home here:
the city's tight solitudes
enveloping all.
– four pseudo-haiku as stanzas in a poem.
Caveat: Poem #2296 “Y una dona de chocolate”
ㅁ The city's pleasures: dawn walk to the donut shop, un cafe grande.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2295 “Out east of I-5”
ㅁ An orange moon rose, above Bakersfield's dim lights, while I drove, southbound.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2294 “A breath”
ㅁ the world, like a lung expands impulsively out and then shrinks again
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2293 “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”
ㅁ We left behind rain, traveled some eight hundred miles, and arrived in rain.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2292 “Salutations in passing”
ㅁ We waved at the sea. And the sea waved back at us... with surging whitecaps.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2291 “A moment of reflection”
ㅁ Some snow fell last night. You can see moonlight reflect. It might change to rain.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2290 “Not quite darkness”
ㅁ The moonlight shone in, illuminating the floor. I left the lights off.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2289 “Apocalypse”
ㅁ the wind cleared the sky dried the mud along the road chilled my monologue
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2288 “A denizen of the sky”
ㅁ the moon was all white climbing up the eastern sky plotting its glowing
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2286 “Two against one”
ㅁ the mud grasped at me and made dark alliances with grim gravity
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2285 “Waiting for the parade”
ㅁ The ravens lined up along the road there in town, hoping for a show.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2282 “Winter’s first attempt”
ㅁ yesterday morning there were some remnants of snow scattered here and there
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2281 “Tea set”
ㅁ I have this tea set - an old-style Korean one. I don't much use it.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2280 “Viaje nocturno”
ㅁ estoy trasnochado... una fiebre débil me acosaba
– un seudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2279 “Post vaccination”
ㅁ I got a bit sick, lay there feeling feverish, drank lots of liquids.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2275 “The thrown stone skipping across water”
ㅁ some nights I sleep through while others I skip across a stone over dreams
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2273 “Rainbow aggression”
ㅁ The rainbow stabbed down, attacking the trees and stones: empty promises.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2270 “That terrible drought”
ㅁ It's raining again! The drought was worrying me. It lasted two hours.
– a pseudo-haiku.
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.