Beware! After nail
clipping, the poodles are running
in stealth mode.
haiku- on the journey August 8, 2013
Gentle jade waters
leap in frothy white tutus
and wear down mountains
.
.
As I was driving to Calgary today over the Rockies, I passed all sorts of lovely waterfalls with the prettiest pale green water. As I drove along, of course I composed a poem!
haiku- hot dog July 28, 2013
Overheating dog
stretching out on the cool–floor’s
better than a swim.
.
.
It’s better because I have poodles, and drying after the swim is beyond onerous! Despite the breed being named for their task of bird-dogging into puddles, I prefer mine to stay dry, and they seem of the same mind!
Poem-dropped plunder haiku July 15, 2013
On my deck, a fat
red cherry, bleeding hot juices
from beak shaped gash.
entrepreneur support June 11, 2013
My father never
passed a kid’s lemonade stand
without buying joy.
.
.
(Having taken Food Safe, I confess that I am not as generous with stands, but I’m always good for several boxes of Girl Guide cookies, which makes little girls just as insanely happy as the lemonade entrepreneurs were left by my dad). 😉
Poem: you May 7, 2013
You stand against the
wall, arms crossed, sardonic smile
immune to laughter.
.
You’ve seen darkness that
they can only imagine,
and you are hardened
.
from the admiration
of flirting gazes because
your heart is cold,
.
Frozen by bad maternity
and noncommittal
paternity.
.
Their bad judgements burn
within your heart until
destroying misery
.
means destroying
everything you should love,
innocent or guilty,
.
and then it means
flash firing your future,
scarring your life upon ours,
.
like a victim of
Hiroshima’s bombs whose life
vanishes in an
.
instant, leaving only
a silhouette, burnt white
on blackened walls.
.
.
I’m still processing the recent murder/suicide of a former student. The idea of an image being frozen in memory by tragedy called to mind the silhouettes created in Hiroshima when people’s shadoes were left, though their bodies were vaporized. While at first glance a free verse, the poem has some form: each triplet stanza follows the haiku syllable count (17 syllables per stanza) to reiterate this idea.
marathon haiku April 16, 2013
A perfect steel sphere
lies in a scarlet pool ‘neath
the Finish banner.
crescent moon haiku April 14, 2013
God has left a toe
nail clipping on the best
blue velvet bedspread.
Haiku 20130411 April 12, 2013
Love this one from Haiku Andy!
leaving the office
late, but oh!
the molten sky
Shawn L. Bird 