ㅁ The moonlight shone in, illuminating the floor. I left the lights off.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Category: Haikuish Objects
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.
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.