ㅁ Yesterday, I made my first window for my many-angled treehouse. Of course it is imperfect. But I put in some glass, applied some putty quite messily, and looked out at blue sea.
– a nonnet.
Category: My Poetry & Fiction
Caveat: Poem #2174 “Recipe”
ㅁ Yesterday, I made some fish curry. I started making curry paste, with the mortar and pestle I'd bought in Korea; then I fry onion with zucchini, tomato, last, add fish.
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #2173 “Snufflebeast”
ㅁ dog snuffles down the road smelling flowers... gotta smell that tree! oh, here's a piece of trash! nice, a mud puddle to drink! oh, look, a bee to try to eat! yikes! ouch. that bee is not so tasty.
– a reverse nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #2172 “Unprecedented”
ㅁ rain comes down continues and then pauses you get used to it then when a patch of blue appears between parting clouds strange clarity amid gray whisps you feel somewhat disoriented
– a reverse nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #2171 “R. Jeffers”
ㅁ I feel happiest just watching things, external to interactions: the struggle of living things trees, bees, birds, fish, eagles... a theodicy of small creatures, if you will, fighting death.
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #2170 “Planning ahead”
ㅁ The day is done. I go out. A remainder of daylight and the drizzle invoke doubt with regard to coming night. Night is not a time to walk: rather, it's when I'll try sleep, check my handcrafted door's lock, and rest. And maybe dream, deep.
– an enlgyn proest gadwynog of two stanzas.
Caveat: Poem #2169 “Chance of rain”
ㅁ drip, drop, drip, drop, drip... drop, drop, drip, drop, drop, drip, drop... drip, drop. Just sayin'.
– a pseudo-haiku. Subject:
Caveat: Poem #2168 “Faith”
ㅁ The stone was alone. The other stones' company offered no solace.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2167 “The view from over here”
ㅁ See there's this one tree over across the water. It sticks up, taller.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2166 “Slow down and enjoy the scenery”
ㅁ The slug headed west and found a nice, tasty leaf, so it stopped rushing.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2165 “Dalí style”
ㅁ in a square-shaped dream palpable anxiety sky became solid
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2164 “Treehouse maintenance record”
ㅁ I guess there's a leak... at this one spot in the roof... I knew the roof leaked
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2163 “The birds”
ㅁ I traveled outside, visited the black ravens who chattered and danced.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2162 “Solace”
ㅁ So then I tune in Nature's profligate broadcasts And sit and listen
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2162 “Sixtieth stanza”
ㅁ Kiamon watched as a raven took wing, pondering just what engendered this thing. Doubts seemed to flee as she hardened her soul, knowing she'd finally take on the role.
– a quatrain in dactylic tetrameter.
Caveat: Poem #2161 “Fifty-ninth stanza”
ㅁ Kiamon never considered the fact: others disliked her avoidance of tact; personally she just viewed it as truth... slightly heroic, to be so uncouth.
– a quatrain in dactylic tetrameter.
Caveat: Poem #2160 “Findings”
ㅁ I picked four of them: they were nice, green cucumbers; I gave them away.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2159 “Pointillism”
ㅁ I saw high-speed boats on a slow-motion ocean. They sketched trails of white.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2158 “The path taken”
ㅁ I took a road, abstractly lost, awaiting clarity; instead I wandered aimless paths, pure angularity.
– a quatrain in ballad meter.
Caveat: Poem #2157 “Must be near solstice”
ㅁ the sunlight streams in through the north window at dawn unexpectedly
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2156 “Discuss”
ㅁ The ravens squawking and calling to each other: pure cacophony.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2155 “The future”
ㅁ the days get shorter the nights begin to lengthen you can't tell at first
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2154 “Olefactory”
ㅁ tree, rock, slug, stream, dirt, road, bug, poo, crab, trash, shoe, grass... things a dog will smell.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2153 “1985”
ㅁ In last night's dream space, back in Mexico City, there was an earthquake.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2152 “Process”
ㅁ Indecisive clouds and a general grayness took over the sky.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2151 “Meta”
ㅁ I lay in the dark. I failed to arrange my thoughts. I thought about that.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2150 “As expected”
ㅁ Oh! The rain has stopped. Wait, no, it's raining again. So back to normal.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #1249 “Inversion”
ㅁ Eccentrically, I don't use a bed. Instead each night I lie down on the floor. But that confuses things: I make my bed at bedtime; when I rise it gets unmade.
– a quatrain in blank verse (iambic pentameter).
Caveat: Poem #2148 “Phatic”
ㅁ you do what you can but it isn't really much you just hang in there
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2147 “Rooted”
ㅁ The wind, it came and pushed the waves along; they gently stroked the stones along the shore. The clouds extended, capturing the sky, and droplets fell to nourish all the green.
– a quatrain in blank verse (iambic pentameter).
Caveat: Poem #2146 “Review of the previous day”
ㅁ My sleep was disturbed. Distressing dreams of hard tasks on some computer.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #2145 “Beginning or end of a story”
ㅁ The sun has cast its glances down upon the fishy seas and lit the dust of narrow roads and mirthless, earnest trees.
– a quatrain in ballad meter.
Caveat: Poem #2144 “Get back to me in ten years”
ㅁ How can I avoid becoming a narcissist as I grow older? Or worse, am I now, already such a lost cause, that it can't matter? If I should ever lose my curiosity, please let me just quit.
– three pseudo-haiku as stanzas, enchained.