ㅁ The ancestors watched, unimpressed by my efforts, disdainful and droll.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Category: My Poetry & Fiction
Caveat: Poem #2728 “Two easy steps”
ㅁ The morning has rules. One: try to wake up somehow. Two: seek some coffee.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2727 “Sliding”
ㅁ Just sliding along, the road slippery with ice, I try to go slow.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2726 “Retreat”
ㅁ The mind takes cover beneath a stone, calcified remnants of old thoughts, edifices against time, against introspection, recondite, armored. And there it hides. It might peek; but it hides.
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #2725 “Attempts”
ㅁ I try to dream words. I try to dream vertigo. I try to dream hope.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2724 “Perhaps supervising”
ㅁ the raven was perched up above the parking lot waiting for something
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2723 “In the morning”
ㅁ First the sun touched clouds. The clouds clustered near mountains. They glowed, pink and gold.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2722 “Transition”
ㅁ There was rain in town. Then I drove out the road, home. Eight miles later: snow.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2721 “Cantankerous denial”
ㅁ Cantankerously, he denied it: "I'm not at all cantankerous!" Perhaps he misunderstands the semantic valance of the words themselves. Alternately, inside views differ. Sigh.
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #2720 “무슨소리”
ㅁ I dreamed I was running a gift store. That was a very shocking dream. But the store was in a mall in suburban Seoul and I was confused because no one understood what I said.
– a nonnet.
#Poetry #Nonnet
Caveat: Poem #2719 “Obligations”
ㅁ The ghost came around. There were things needing haunting. So she got to work.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2718 “The weather report”
ㅁ The world descended, slow, in tiny steps to chill its atmosphere, to render stark its stony landscape, so the trees resist a wind borne from the east, alight with stars.
– a quatrain in blank verse (iambic pentameter).
Caveat: Poem #2717 “A cold snap”
ㅁ The continent came, exhaling its icy air against our damp trees.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2716 “Up there in the brain somewhere, lost to all”
ㅁ I'd planned some verse up in my brain... I failed to write it down. So now this morning nothing's there... no words: no verb, no noun.
– a quatrain in ballad meter.
Caveat: Poem #2715 “Endogenic ice on the road”
ㅁ The frost congealed upon the road, that path where cars would go; the road itself engendered ice, it didn't need the snow.
– a quatrain in ballad meter.
Caveat: Poem #2714 “Catching the car”
ㅁ A dog pursued the car with hopes of catching it at last. The driver stopped to greet the dog, the dog's surprise was vast.
– a quatrain in ballad meter.
Caveat: Poem #2713 “The demagogue”
ㅁ the smiling man took over my dream like a malign force of nature setting up a place to work with destructive machines up beside the road and then began a long rant about trees
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #2712 “Meditation”
ㅁ Detach your mind from local things and let it roam the world; a mind is made to do such stuff: abstractions come unfurled.
– a quatrain in ballad meter.
Caveat: Poem #2711 “This winter”
ㅁ The snow continued failing to appear instead the rain persisted with its task. The trees received more water than they'd like, the sea was washed but surged, indifferent.
– a quatrain in blank verse (iambic pentameter).
Caveat: Poem #2710 “En la calle”
ㅁ I dream I'm in Mexico City, all mixed up with Seoul's suburbs; subways take me strange places; a stray cat follows me; I'm on my old street: federales in black cars, smoking, watch.
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #2709 “Chthonic contemplations”
ㅁ A pilot's theory about the earth is likely oppositional: the earth is an obstacle best to be avoided, by necessity handled gently, touched lightly... solid fear.
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #2708 “Early hours”
ㅁ I wake up at three and can't fall asleep again. No sheep worth counting.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2707 “Timekeeping II”
ㅁ Still, the world continues: the divisions of the calendar seeming arbitrary, assembled like children's blocks into precarious constructs, implausible in the face of time.
– a reverse nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #2706 “Timekeeping”
ㅁ The year tumbled along like other years, an aimless, intricate clockwork, the days its gears and levers, the nights its enclosure, until it wound down, ticked more slowly, and unsprung; digits flipped.
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #2705 “Drops”
ㅁ drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip this month's been a neverending drizzle
– a tetractys.
Caveat: Poem #2704 “To eat later”
ㅁ Pie awaits consumption, but I left it... ...in the fridge at work so I have to wait.
– a tetractys.
Caveat: Poem #2703 “Rain as winter’s failure”
ㅁ snow became endless rain the clouds just can't the winter continues to elude them
– a tetractys.
Caveat: Poem #2702 “Car-frost”
ㅁ Frost appeared on my car during the day - sat in the parking lot, collected ice.
– a tetractys.
Caveat: Poem #2701 “Bigger than Costco”
ㅁ I dreamed a giant, mass retail operation... the shoppers were dogs.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2700 “Summarizing the Christmas tree at work”
☆ Star. Eagle. Gold Branches. Snowboarding bear. Pickup truck with tree. And other ornaments. Some hovering hummingbirds. Lights arrayed throughout - tiny points. Scattering of boxes with colored bows.
– a reverse nonnet, summarizing the Christmas tree at work.
Caveat: Poem #2699 “Strange happenings”
ㅁ So... riddle me this: why did the tree cross the road? The wind blew it down.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2698 “Mid-evening”
ㅁ Bright half moon suspended among the damp clouds which briefly parted to release the night.
– a tetractys.
Caveat: Poem #2697 “December solstice”
ㅁ Sun. Absent. Now scheduled for a return... after a long period of waiting.
– a tetractys.