ㅁ It was a heat map, showing where the cells died first... better known as "leaf".
– a pseudo-haiku.
Category: My Poetry & Fiction
Caveat: Poem #2240 “Interiority”
ㅁ Some stories are told alone, you can hear, with mouth for ear, with soft tone, self-whispering, on your own.
– an englyn penfyr.
Caveat: Poem #2239 “4 a.m.”
ㅁ The moon was up there smiling, among stars, and maybe mars, above things, things like the trees, all growing.
– an englyn penfyr.
Caveat: Poem #2238 “Avoidance”
ㅁ some days I go through motions exist without intentions make up other worlds' oceans
– an englyn milwr.
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 #2235 “So there”
ㅁ I've lost my center and I'm just done with people... their expectations.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2234 “How it works”
ㅁ the worst forgetting is when you forget that just before you already forgot
– a couplet in a slightly defective blank verse (iambic pentameter).
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 #2228 “Oracle”
ㅁ trees on the shore were becoming the wind wind on the sea was creating the waves sounds of the waves were disturbing my dreams dreaming I knew that the storm would soon pass
– a quatrain in dactylic tetrameter
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.
Caveat: Poem #2224 “This week’s episode”
ㅁ a planet of hats another with suitcases appeared in my dream
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2223 “Unsolved”
ㅁ a pointless rampage against amorphous powers appeared in my dream
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2222 “Numerological”
ㅁ two twos, twice over, a small series of doublets, appeared in my dream
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2221 “Bonus”
ㅁ a linux server that I didn't know I had appeared in my dream
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2220 “Artistry”
ㅁ a well-drawn valley all its contours well-formed appeared in my dream
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2219 “Get the ladder”
ㅁ a secret passage to the treehouse's attic appeared in my dream
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2218 “The current state of things”
ㅁ I'll end up like him: angry, taciturn, anxious. And I'll have no friends. As an old person, I'll insist that change is bad, Reject solutions. "Oh the kids these days... Lazy and badly brought up. Get off my damn lawn!" "The world's getting worse The system's out to get us." What system is this? Occam's razor says Nah, it's random fluctuations. There's no evil there. Shrug. I'll hunker down, A misunderstood hermit. Let my soul get stale.
– six pseudo-haiku as stanzas in a longer poem.
Caveat: Poem #2217 “Try this at home”
ㅁ We can complain more, even about complaining, get some sympathy.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2216 “Midnight surprise”
ㅁ The night was windy. A giant tree-branch fell down and bonked my treehouse.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2215 “Sixty-second stanza”
ㅁ Kiamon dreamed that the wind was her friend, Happy to blow through a life near its end. Waking she realized she wasn't yet dead; rising, she went out to see where things led.
– a quatrain in dactylic tetrameter.
Caveat: Poem #2214 “Carpe diem”
ㅁ Seize the day, they say. The day slips out of your grasp. You just do dumb stuff.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2213 “On the road”
ㅁ The night's not so dark. I can walk along the road, maybe notice rocks.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2212 “Now you know”
ㅁ Demonstrative sighs - sighs that call out, "I'm a sigh!" Those sighs annoy me. Sigh.
– a pseudo-haiku with an extra syllable coda.
Caveat: Poem #2211 “Of course”
ㅁ Peripatetic - given to walking around - I will get nowhere.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2210 “Disappointment”
ㅁ The project was killed by my lack of any skill in the area.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2209 “Exuberance”
ㅁ A fish leapt upward and entered the sky, briefly and then slapped water.
– a pseudo-haiku.