one cannot believe
a kimono up your sleeve
now the
world can see
Sydney McCutchen
------------------------------
cold morning snowflakes
hover, white gnats on Spring
wind
outside my window
Tonia Matthew
------------------------------
Dreaming on a plane
Folded legs auburn pillow
Wake up,
Yamato!
Terry MacNamara
------------------------------
here are 7 haiku (for
luck)
Wipe those tables down.
Old men's biscuits and coffee
make way for Kid's Meals.
---
thick green stalks
bouncing on his shoulder
sunflower
bouquet
---
in the diner
you smiled and you gave me
your longest
french fry
---
Spring wind buffets
a pink balloon
against the
cemetary fence
---
white frisbee
sailing out of my reach
completes its
arc
---
girl in the mud
laughing laughing pull me out
or come
on in
---
Blow up all the Buddhas
there will still be her face
Warren Purkel
------------------------------
I loved moss, she is
full of rambunkchiosness and
Flair - I can't shake it.
D'animal
------------------------------
lori likes mona
grace, tinker's daughter; i like
poppytinsel; you?
---
waistline skyline, see
the alien appendage
too many
brownies
Ellen Skagerberg
------------------------------
Her hair is red wild
Piled high upon her head
Her face
alive when she sings
---
If there were one word
To describe hurricane child
It
would be simply the truth
---
They met through a friend
Her music was the true link
Now they are bound true
---
She flies over seas
To sing her truth to Japan
Japan
look out for a storm
Vanessa Kaukonen
------------------------------
Haiku, why do you
scare me so?
I need to laugh
hope frazier
------------------------------
most exquisite spring:
birdsongs like droppings in
ears
petals fall like snow
---
fool moon owl echo
i have a mouse here for you
please
come and catch it
---
little pearls of hail
cover this hill and cabin:
april
cake frosting
---
equinox moonlight:
the arc of a radiance
circling the
sky
brian QTN
------------------------------
When the spring is new,
The heart remembers how love
Dances, petal light.
Greetings, forsythia
blossom.
Margaret Yeakel
------------------------------
spring is late this year
i pack the van for leaving
a
cross country drive
---
give me one flower
to signal that change is here
I
dream the warm days
---
heart flutters like wind
is this menopausal breath?
the fire burns brightly
---
Life is a whirlwind
These days of revelation
Wildly
beating heart.
Mimi Baczewska (Baa chef'
ska)
------------------------------
so much to say and
only seventeen syllables
in which
to say it
---
World lovers
To touch the japan,
the laos, the zimbabwa, the
spain
of your body
jan (nathan long)
------------------------------
The following is a series of
haiku and broken haiku, all in one poem inspired by a 1990 issue of Life
Magazine -- best photos of the past decade.
Whooper swans.
Lake Kussharo, Hokkaido, Japan. 1980.
Mirrored necks.
Parenthetic swans
afloat dawn.
Neck to neck
ressimilation.
Mind echoed.
Sun, cirrus-mooned
on pond.
The stilled race:
thoughts swanned.
Misty blur between
waters and air.
Vision to flesh
above reflection-
Perfection?
Scare of thought.
Dissimilation.
Echoless.
David Zink, 1990
------------------------------
Haiku, who knew?
Bending to remove
from pond's still surface, a cup
frogs on flip-flop float
Victoria Davis
------------------------------
On Creek Road I spy
tiny bird schlepping big twig.
Home Depot brother!
Doug Adrianson
------------------------------
spring lamination
intermingled spare pieces
needles,
leaves and cones
Leah Capper
(written when
she was in the 8th grade a LONG time ago...)
------------------------------
I only wish I could say
these are original
but they
are not.
(Ellis Vener wrote the above
and forwarded the following:)
Jewish Haikus
It is
common knowledge that poetry lovers have been frustrated by the fact that no
poet has chosen to express Jewish themes and feelings in the haiku style (three
unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables respectively). Filling this
gap in poetic literature, David M. Bader has recently written a book entitled,
Haikus for Jews. Here are a few examples of his poetry:
No fins, no flippers
the gefilte fish swims with
some
difficulty.
---
Opened the door for
the Prophet Elijah.
Now our cat is
gone.
---
The sparkling blue sea
beckons me to wait one hour
after my sandwich.
---
Hava nagila,
hava nagila, hava--
enough already.
---
Today, mild shvitzing.
Tomorrow, so hot you'll plotz.
Five-day forecast--feh
------------------------------
once in a great while
forwarded jokes make me laugh
or
get me smiling.....
---
this one's said to be
direct from the rising sun
have
a great tour
Judith-Kate Friedman
(who
wrote the above and forwarded the following:)
(A Japanese academic, Kanta
Matsuura, in the Economics Faculty reports that in Japan, they have replaced
the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with their own Japanese
haiku poetry, each only 17 syllables, 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the
second and 5 in the third:)
Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But
now it is gone.
---
The Web site you seek
Cannot be located but
Countless
more exist.
---
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
---
ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.
---
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No
one hears your screams.
---
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows
is like that.
---
First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen
dies
So beautifully.
---
With searching comes loss
And the presence of
absence:
"My Novel" not found.
---
The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao-until
You
bring fresh toner.
---
Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
---
A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple
stone.
---
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost
data.
Guess which has occurred.
---
You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
---
Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we
never will.
---
Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must
now be retyped.
---
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
---
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