Category / Haiku
Covid Courtships
Desire By Heart Or By Navel
Romance needs some help this Spring in the northern hemisphere. Reflections upon romantic infatuation (1) -today- via a dialogue in haikus (bad idea from the getgo), and (2) -tomorrow- via philosophical musings verging on the esoteric (perhaps worse)…
Word Weary
The earnest scholar scours his inner landscape for the elusive source of his discontent…
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Possible
This haiku is more than 20 years old. It would always seem to pour when we rode our bikes to visit a temple, leaving nought to do but sit and watch…
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Long Distance
Once Upon A Time, a fellow with mucho curiosity about stuff, found himself entangled in an LDR, a long-distance relationship… really long, like when it was daylight for her, it was darkest night for him.
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haiku ’18 (moon knows)
The mysterious alchemy of desire run amok, as a secret invader virus penetrating the culture via the gateway of individuals wanting, without balance. The moon, our unconscious pastness, is winning, and the fiction that reason holds the antidote rather than spiritual activity, is its concealed ally.
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haiku ’18 (studying)
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[ Drawing: Honey Baraparte, “Get Inspired” ] (go see her work)
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tanka ’18 (at the tech conference)
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Note: A tanka is a Japanese short poem form akin to a haiku, but with a five line structure built of 5-7-5-7-7 syllables. The spirit of these sentiments were wonderfully anticipated by Walt Whitman in 1865 with his ‘When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer’, though I consider the contemporary picture to be far more hellish. ( Whitman’s poem and a decent recitation ).
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haiku ’18 (one glimpse)
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[ Drawing: Honey Baraparte, “Get Inspired” ] (go see her work)
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