Monday, January 18, 2010
With the new year I've been going through my pockets putting haiku that has collected there, online. I have several places where I put it. It's not much; it's been done, mostly, when stuck in meetings, when giving tests, when standing around. For example, I'll be in a place where I sense they're purposely delaying me as a kind of power trip, like a state office. So I pull out the haiku and start writing on small colored pieces of paper. Invariably I get served more quickly; maybe they're afraid I'm with the press, or I'm judging their service. No- I'm writing haiku.
I choose the haiku format, with seventeen syllables, and two links, for the most part (my innovation) in the vast majority of what I do, which appears here...an opus that includes almost 300 now, but isn't carefully organized. It's uneven; IL has 22, but Hawaii has only one; the least I could do would be to move some of those IL ones out to the neighboring states although they for the most part are doing pretty well too. Alabama is extremely important as it comes first; yet I've been unable to really make that one the showcase, though I do have one for each season, which is my goal for every state. Alaska has six, but they're all summer...so it goes. I need to do research, add wildflowers, and love...
I remain interested in other kinds of haiku, like meta-haiku (below), and have put numerous Carbondale haiku on my Carbondale site...this tends to highlight my local experience, and though some of it could go in the IL file (some already are)- for the most point references are known only to the very local. Still this site leads to all my local haiku which I would like to someday collect into its own place. In this I make no attempt to tie it to location, and in some cases I don't even have kigo...so it goes. But I've stuck religiously to 5-7-5 for the time being, if only because I love how the insistent regularity of 5-7-5 allows you to hear the syllables better for what they are...
I'm also interested in coder's haiku (elsewhere at this site) and total link haiku...but more about that later. And I haven't forgotten the Actualists, and the Actualist reunion, which I hold out as hope for the future...I'm proud to have a site whose title says, essentially, "reference," but which is as earthy and actualist as I can make it...have a good new year, all!
meta haiku
haiku thunderstorm
power, media blackout
kigo clog gutters
(5-09)
I choose the haiku format, with seventeen syllables, and two links, for the most part (my innovation) in the vast majority of what I do, which appears here...an opus that includes almost 300 now, but isn't carefully organized. It's uneven; IL has 22, but Hawaii has only one; the least I could do would be to move some of those IL ones out to the neighboring states although they for the most part are doing pretty well too. Alabama is extremely important as it comes first; yet I've been unable to really make that one the showcase, though I do have one for each season, which is my goal for every state. Alaska has six, but they're all summer...so it goes. I need to do research, add wildflowers, and love...
I remain interested in other kinds of haiku, like meta-haiku (below), and have put numerous Carbondale haiku on my Carbondale site...this tends to highlight my local experience, and though some of it could go in the IL file (some already are)- for the most point references are known only to the very local. Still this site leads to all my local haiku which I would like to someday collect into its own place. In this I make no attempt to tie it to location, and in some cases I don't even have kigo...so it goes. But I've stuck religiously to 5-7-5 for the time being, if only because I love how the insistent regularity of 5-7-5 allows you to hear the syllables better for what they are...
I'm also interested in coder's haiku (elsewhere at this site) and total link haiku...but more about that later. And I haven't forgotten the Actualists, and the Actualist reunion, which I hold out as hope for the future...I'm proud to have a site whose title says, essentially, "reference," but which is as earthy and actualist as I can make it...have a good new year, all!
meta haiku
haiku thunderstorm
power, media blackout
kigo clog gutters
(5-09)
Monday, November 09, 2009
d & e concourses, miami-dade
e concourse news flash
same news over and over
snowed out rockies game
d and e concourse
time suspended; mindless folks;
why not take a nap?
flooded out school bus,
people saved; news continues
eleventh time 'round
a flight attendant
late for her next assignment
we wait patiently
always miami
sunny, bright, hopeful, half-drunk
airport passersby
overpriced sandwich
what passes for sustenance
planes pass through; i stay
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Haiku Quisqueya (poems for the Dominican Republic)
santo domingo
malecon wall braces me
sea brings next june storm
malecon driftwood-
sodden texture, rounded shape-
summer souvenir
from central highway
road to moca beckons us
as at home, we pass
mangos, papayas
slipp'ry as fish in a net
sweet fresh taste of life
dominican rain
makes spirit melancholy
may storms never left
can't dance merengue,
my feet shuffle awkwardly-
her forgiving smile
ubas de playa
out of favor these days, but,
eaten before ripe
off the malecon,
sea crashes on black coral-
dark tales on june morn
oldest in new world,
mossy university-
autonomous, bleak
street of ancient brick
called calle de las damas
street of the women
this plaza's dances
that evil bronze conqueror
has seen every one
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
haiku for july 4th, 2009, illinois usa
hot illinois fourth
corn of all sizes shimmering
spring planting stories
kickapoo bottoms
bobcat's tracks pressed deep in mud
poet's mind gone blank
minor league baseball,
packed stadium, sea of cub
jerseys, fourth fireworks
outside of use,
rolling hills, shaded valleys;
sunny, lazy fourth
illinois river,
night settles on weedy banks;
folks wait for fireworks
river bank wildflow'rs;
overgrown blooms hide car's nose-
we've gone in for fish
(7-09)
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Sunday, May 06, 2007
TOEFL HAIKU
1
Peer pressure, panic
Go to SIU in June-
Choose the correct answer!
2
April TOEFL class,
Listening section blah blah
What did the man mean?
3
outside, spring blossome
finish reading section!
c, c, c, c, c!
4
listen to passage
about fishing- do NOT write
on the answer sheet!
5
barbeque on porch,
neighbors drunk on Friday night
long reading section!
6
No eating in pool-
meaning of “pool” in line 1?
Life is a reading question…
7
B and D are wrong,
A and C are possible,
Missing the picnic!
8
That I am the person whose
summer comes to this!
9
Native country code,
fill in the little circles-
slight breeze from window
10
what can be inferred,
asks question forty seven-
brain is at the beach
11
fishing on boat dock,
grammar section on my mind,
mosquito on knee
12
spring smell, flowers’ bloom
attract bees- if bee is right,
a, c and d must be wrong!
13
summer impatience
heard this example before,
neither likes painting!
14
don’t slow down to fix
sandals, race clock, read ev’ry
passage- pencils down!
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
crumbs, champagne bottle,
reflection in monitor -
haiku on email
baby wears himself out,
long nap on living room couch
rose parade or not
reflection in monitor -
haiku on email
baby wears himself out,
long nap on living room couch
rose parade or not
