ㅁ the rabbit emerged then it hopped across the yard looking for breakfast
– a pseudo-haiku.
Category: My Poetry & Fiction
Caveat: Poem #855 “As seen out the window”
ㅁ sparse fragments of snow presented themselves to me swirling across glass
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #854 “Bread, coffee”
ㅁ breakfast bread with jam; a cup of coffee of course; chill dawn waits outside
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #853 “Conjunction”
ㅁ and the slanted sky and the yellow grassy hills and the river rests
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #852 “Anxiety”
ㅁ anxiety is nefarious creeping by secret passages asserting unlikely things discoursing about doubts taking possession so maybe just take a breath inhale sigh
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #851 “The writing in the world”
ㅁ Fog and trees up the hill below the sky, which is well hidden, but peeks through, pink and gold; the trees' branches like brush strokes, uninvented ideographs, abstract characters drawn against white.
– a reverse nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #850 “Dodging raindrops”
ㅁ the hummingbird waits hovering by the feeder avoiding steady rain
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #849 “Dukkha”
ㅁ lie down, suffering walk along, still suffering oh, there's a nice leaf.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #848 “Disbursement”
ㅁ fragments of water strewn across narrow valleys filling in deep holes
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #847 “November’s plan”
ㅁ Fog's condensation lining the tips of branches outline November.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #846 “Nekkhamma”
ㅁ Moments of friendship, Unintended kindnesses, Slow entanglements.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #845 “The requirements of the day”
ㅁ Thanks: for life; for weather; for happiness; for looming mountains; for the colorful leaves; for long walks in a downpour; for a moment of reflection; for pauses after conversation.
– a reverse nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #844 “The leaf”
ㅁ the night gives the day the sun makes the falling rain a leaf there lies still
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #843 “Behind the wheel”
ㅁ drive off the ferry, go through customs, drive in the rain to Tim Hortons drive to a rest area drive up the river's path drive east to Prince George drive through the snow drive at night drive south drive.
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #842 “Prince Rupert, BC”
ㅁ Twenty years ago I was here in Prince Rupert. It is still raining.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #841 “Consumed”
ㅁ light comes out so slowly: gradually, it forces aside the grasping bits of dark which the trees have eaten, and finally a bold grayness suffuses reality with calm.
– a reverse nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #840 “Serve yourself”
ㅁ The dawn is like soup: a broth of gray fills the air, chilled, unsavory.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #839 “Post mortem”
ㅁ So twenty blurry years ago today I made a try at dying: took some pills... instead became a ghost abroad. It stayed as if a dream had taken over this... this world, this life, this cold oneiric space. I found I could not stop my headlong trip because each trembling leaf I saw had grace. And finally, the ghost had found his will.
– some lines of blank verse (iambic pentameter).
Caveat: Poem #838 “Emergent phenomena”
ㅁ among the shadows nothing is necessary the gods just emerge
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #837 “Mud”
ㅁ mud has its own moods not influenced by light's moves waiting for darkness
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #836 “Lines of escape”
ㅁ autumn's reflections articulate water's shapes and dismember time
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #835 “Qualia”
ㅁ the wind tears at trees thrusts branches, tosses needles, throws the rain around
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #834 “Mood shift”
ㅁ Phrases slip out and envelop the air hanging and swirling across small divides so, in that way they embrace the despair slowly arriving like foam on the tides
– a quatrain in dactylic tetrameter.
Caveat: Poem #833 “Cosmos”
ㅁ on the edges of things bits of meaning can be found: there... a bird flits by.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #832 “Self-remonstration”
ㅁ You'd think, with free time, I'd finish that damn novel. But I can't seem to.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #831 “Some disorder”
ㅁ Pieces of paper are scattered across my desk. Outside, the wind blows.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #830 “The speculative other”
ㅁ What do the deer dream, curled up in some woody hollow? Do bears lurk out there?
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #829 “Autumnal offering”
ㅁ from naked branches shimmering in twilight air tiny jewels hang
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #828 “Nature’s composition”
ㅁ negative spaces of cerulean and pale, sketched by tree branches
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #827 “Listen”
ㅁ it's necessary to answer the voices heard to walk and to think
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #826 “Still in progress”
ㅁ A book I started - oh, thirty years ago now - but I'll try again.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #825 “Like obligation”
ㅁ The rain is like truth: It comes, but it's unwanted. Let it feed the roots.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #824 “Iuriong’s second stanza”
ㅁ He may have harbored some hopes in his day, Cruel was the world, and unkind were the fates, Robbed and neglected, the gods had their say... Loathsome and brutish, they lifted life's weights.
– a quatrain in dactylic tetrameter, about a fictional character.