August 4, 2021Daily Haiku, Moments of Life, Nature 216. two crimson leaves among the bounteous green — the Japanese maple Love0 Share Tweet Read more
August 1, 2021Daily Haiku, Favorites, Political / Social, To the Masters 213. for Ray Smith and Japhy Ryder Backpacks of abandoned dreams beneath organs of discarded plastic. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 7, 2021August 2, 2021Daily Haiku, Health & Wellness, Human Condition, I was there..., Moments of Life, Nature 188. The snapping turtle, still as time, prostrates itself before the god rain. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
June 9, 2021August 1, 2021Daily Haiku, Health & Wellness, Nature 160. Ticklish trees titter in the storm-thickening breeze — greedy for god. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
June 8, 2021Daily Haiku, Moments of Life, Nature 159. Ethereal steam – the river’s dream – lingers in the sun-splashed morning. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
June 4, 2021Daily Haiku, Moments of Life, Nature 155. The frenzied crescendo of frogs. The last tentative croak of the night. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
June 3, 2021June 9, 2021Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Political / Social 154. The blood-thickened ink from our fathers’ drink spills into the centuries. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
May 12, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Moments of Life, Nature, Pandemic 132. for the tick I found on my neck “I’m sorry you were born into this,” I sigh — prayers before the murder. […] Read more
May 11, 2021Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Self-Realization 131. How much joy can we destroy chasing these dizzy peaks of ecstasies? Love0 Share Tweet Read more
May 10, 2021May 10, 2021Daily Haiku, Nature 130. the orb spider bends a blade of grass to its will in stride to lunch Love0 Share Tweet Read more
May 6, 2021May 10, 2021Daily Haiku, Human Condition 126. Bewitched by the warmth as your flame engulfs me Love0 Share Tweet Read more
May 5, 2021May 10, 2021Daily Haiku, Nature 125. The shaky applause of a porch light follows the sparrow’s first flight Love0 Share Tweet Read more
May 4, 2021Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Nature, To the Masters 124. for Walt Whitman A gentle breeze stirs grass and leaves; we’re but ants among blades of trees. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
May 3, 2021August 2, 2021Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 123. Dear Austin gray morning mist a steaming breakfast taco with cheese and avocado Love0 Share Tweet Read more
May 2, 2021May 3, 2021Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Political / Social, Self-Realization 122. for discipline You can’t pick up all the pieces all at once — they’re shattered-everywhere. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
April 29, 2021April 29, 2021Daily Haiku, Moments of Life, Nature 119. The gentle rains and subtle gray gently prod spring greens awake. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
April 28, 2021May 3, 2021#blacklivesmatter, Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Political / Social 118. for the murdered faded rectangles of cloth hang limp upon the rigid poles Love0 Share Tweet Read more
April 27, 2021Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 117. I’ve been here before — memories glimmer like highway stop ghosts Love0 Share Tweet Read more
April 3, 2021April 27, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Nature, To the Masters 93. “The Giving Bench” for Shel Silverstein “Here, sit on me,” said the bench. “Watch the sun nudge the yawning spring awake.” Love0 Share […] Read more
March 30, 2021April 27, 2021Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 89. m i l k cheerios birdsong Love0 Share Tweet Read more
March 29, 2021April 27, 2021Daily Haiku, Nature 88. the squirrel yawns in the mulch — morning dew Love0 Share Tweet Read more
March 28, 2021April 27, 2021Daily Haiku, Human Condition 87. our lives & deaths anchored by the sun Love0 Share Tweet Read more
March 27, 2021Daily Haiku, Moments of Life, Nature 86. “Don’t complicate things,” said the newborn spring. “Everything you see is light.” Love0 Share Tweet Read more
March 25, 2021March 27, 2021Daily Haiku, Human Condition 84. Fingertips trip, do somersault flips, trying to keep pace with my thoughts. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
March 23, 2021Daily Haiku, Nature 82. whispering fire – lullaby flame – the seductive sirens’ serenade Love0 Share Tweet Read more
March 22, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 81. for the trippers trying to fall asleep the suffocating vibration of the dread drums — so close now, your chest Love0 Share […] Read more
March 13, 2021March 14, 2021Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 72. fan blades chasing shadows — mind a menace Love0 Share Tweet Read more
March 8, 2021March 9, 2021Daily Haiku, Moments of Life, Nature 67. Endless waves ripple past my boots — why not a fish? Love0 Share Tweet Read more
March 7, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Human Condition 66. Her life a museum of unrealized dreams, collecting the dust of stars. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
February 24, 2021March 7, 2021Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 55. first morning haze — text regret Love0 Share Tweet Read more
February 23, 2021March 7, 2021Daily Haiku, Political / Social 54. for Rush Limbaugh Skeleton of ash — finally engulfed by your rage fire Love0 Share Tweet Read more
February 22, 2021Daily Haiku, Human Condition 53. Our own special fortress of so many things left unsaid Love0 Share Tweet Read more
February 21, 2021Daily Haiku, Health & Wellness, Human Condition 52. that space ‘twixt kisses — I drift between bed and sheets — all else in between Love0 Share Tweet Read more
February 18, 2021February 19, 2021Daily Haiku, Nature 49. teeming with silence — the place where the Chinook once came to spawn Love0 Share Tweet Read more
February 15, 2021Daily Haiku, Human Condition, To the Masters 46. for James Joyce …an unbroken chain of umbilical veins to the first leads unto… Love0 Share Tweet Read more
February 13, 2021February 19, 2021Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 44. rain drop dawn — hungover Love0 Share Tweet Read more
February 12, 2021February 13, 2021Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Political / Social, Self-Realization 43. for consumerism I can’t say why I hop in my car just to buy… something — anything. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
February 11, 2021February 13, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Political / Social 42. wandering sanitized aisles carts full of together alone Love1 Share Tweet Read more
February 9, 2021February 11, 2021Daily Haiku, Human Condition 40. 6:50 am: fireball spinning outside my window, snooze button be damned Love0 Share Tweet Read more
February 8, 2021February 9, 2021Daily Haiku, Political / Social, To the Masters 39. for Tom Brady Achilles alone — death’s last gurgling gasps, the glint of his sunlit spear. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
February 6, 2021February 7, 2021Daily Haiku, To the Masters 37. for Tom Brady Achilles alone — gazing past war’s aftermath, squinting in the sun. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
February 5, 2021Daily Haiku, Moments of Life, Nature 36. the sun’s setting light – striped with shadows of pine – upon the painted snow Love0 Share Tweet Read more
February 4, 2021February 5, 2021Collecting the soil..., Daily Haiku, To the Masters 35. for W.B. Yeats Beyond the breeze-chopped lakes, past reticent trees: our inner Innisfrees. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
February 3, 2021February 4, 2021Daily Haiku, Nature 34. Moss-laden trees, twisted boughs — all living the life that light allows. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
February 2, 2021February 3, 2021Daily Haiku, Human Condition, To the Masters 33. for Rumi There are many wines — to each their own ecstasy, to each their own light. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
February 1, 2021Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 32. It felt so special then, now just a wrinkled moon of a memory Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 31, 2021Daily Haiku, To the Masters 31. for Edgar Allan Poe When at last my vile path led me to its walls — ravaged: Eldorado. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 30, 2021January 31, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Favorites, Moments of Life 30. A plastic red wagon sits idle, waiting for nap time to end Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 29, 2021Daily Haiku, To the Masters 29. for Emily Dickinson Pen – a magic wand – with a quick flourish of wrist, Gods and worlds are bound. Love0 Share […] Read more
January 28, 2021Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 28. sapling dancing in the wind / window / my overflowing desk Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 27, 2021January 28, 2021Daily Haiku, Health & Wellness, Nature 27. ‘neath the snow-peaked laurel leaves everything seems a little less different Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 26, 2021January 27, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 26. I wish I kissed you that night — that moon-painted pier: half-shadow, half-light. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 25, 2021January 26, 2021Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Nature, Self-Realization 25. one pain goes away, another takes its place — diminishing returns Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 24, 2021Daily Haiku, Human Condition 24. It could have happened different, but it didn’t — never will. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 23, 2021January 24, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 23. five clothespins clutch the fraying laundry line — the story they tell Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 22, 2021January 23, 2021Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Political / Social 22. It was a gradual fall — that happened so quickly. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 21, 2021January 22, 2021Daily Haiku, Nature 21. I raced the sunset to the summit — slants of light, outlined shadow-pine. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 20, 2021January 22, 2021Daily Haiku, Political / Social, To the Masters 20. for Amanda Gorman Frothing waves of rhyming hope burst from her verse, crash upon the mic. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 19, 2021Daily Haiku, Favorites, Moments of Life 19. Still bee on my windowsill — on to honey springs Love1 Share Tweet Read more
January 18, 2021January 25, 2021Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Self-Realization 18. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 17, 2021January 18, 2021Daily Haiku, Human Condition 17. Before I even swallow, I’m plotting how to follow my next bite. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 16, 2021January 17, 2021Daily Haiku, Nature 16. cars, trucks coughing by, airplanes buzzing in the sky — drowning nature’s song Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 15, 2021Daily Haiku, I was there..., Moments of Life 15. Remember Jura? A phantom box truck surfing the whisky rain hills Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 14, 2021Daily Haiku, Nature 14. Trickling brooks, murmuring streams make their way to the river, bound for the sea. Love1 Share Tweet Read more
January 13, 2021Daily Haiku, Nature 13. streams frozen midway to their fate and fall — if only for a fleeting — Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 12, 2021January 13, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Favorites 12. Doll, half-naked, unblinkingly reflecting the empty room — spilt tea. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 10, 2021Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 10. Each tea leaf only ever considered a wisp of the whole Love1 Share Tweet Read more
January 9, 2021Daily Haiku, Human Condition 9. for Father Time It’s not that we lose our taste for prey, it’s that we lost the will to hunt. Love0 […] Read more
January 7, 2021Daily Haiku 7. As the swampy runoff drains into the capital, the stooges feign disbelief Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 6, 2021January 7, 2021#blacklivesmatter, Daily Haiku, Moments of Life, Political / Social 6. for DJT Some moments can’t be put to poem — stare wide-eyed, suspended disbelief. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 4, 2021January 5, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, I was there... 4. I was there… Newstead Abbey. Midday rain streaks Boatswain’s grave. Byron’s Abbey standing solemn vigil. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
January 3, 2021January 3, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, I was there..., Moments of Life 3. I was there… Villa Diodati. These and more are the thoughts that haunt me, on this bench in Diodati. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
December 31, 2020January 3, 2021Daily Haiku, Favorites, Human Condition, Moments of Life, Nature 366. Under the empty sky, my mind grows still — the new moon Love0 Share Tweet Read more
December 30, 2020January 3, 2021Daily Haiku, Favorites 365. We’re just little starships humming across time and space — whispers in the void Love0 Share Tweet Read more
December 29, 2020December 30, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, To the Masters 364. for Kurt Vonnegut So it goes: wake, eat, work, eat, sleep — repeat. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
December 19, 2020December 30, 2020"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Political / Social 354. She asks ’bout the kids as I add up the tip — both playing our parts. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
December 18, 2020December 31, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature 353. Lightning illuminates the darkness — ink on paper Love0 Share Tweet Read more
December 17, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Political / Social 352. Whether blue or red, your ass is still on a couch, screaming at a screen. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
December 16, 2020December 17, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Moments of Life, Nature, Political / Social 351. A lone phone tower — the sole thing between me, untrodden snow, and zen. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
December 15, 2020"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Self-Realization 350. I woke unsure if it was Sunday or Monday. It’s Tuesday. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
December 14, 2020December 14, 2020"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Moments of Life 349. Sharpener filled with shavings; paper full of emptiness. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
November 29, 2020December 12, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Moments of Life 334. Can I capture emptiness with a blank page? Gray morning blue. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
November 28, 2020Daily Haiku, To the Masters 333. for Robert Frost And you took the road less traveled — leading to my alphabetized books. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
November 26, 2020November 26, 2020"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Moments of Life 331. Past the window – in the old, gnarled tree – the Troll King grins — still-watching me. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
November 25, 2020November 26, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Nature, Self-Realization 330. How silly we are: pretending to know of what the skylarks sing. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
November 19, 2020"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 324. The afterimage of your silhouette against my sun-stained eyes. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
November 18, 2020November 18, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature 323. silence in the sudden snowfall slowly fades to black Love0 Share Tweet Read more
November 17, 2020November 18, 2020Daily Haiku 322. The theater unfolding in the night sky — the spectral silence Love0 Share Tweet Read more
November 10, 2020November 10, 2020Daily Haiku, Moments of Life, Nature, To the Masters 315. for Jack Kerouac Full moon crackling through leafless branches — the same hope, an old hope. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
November 9, 2020November 10, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Nature, To the Masters 314. for Jack Kerouac The twisting branches take the roundabout way to eternity. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
November 2, 2020November 3, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Political / Social, To the Masters 307. for Alan Moore The watchmen point and laugh as we eat each other, giggly with champagne. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
October 30, 2020Daily Haiku, Self-Realization, To the Masters 304. for Robert Frost I’m one acquainted with the night — last to sleep, first up in morning’s light. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
October 27, 2020October 30, 2020Daily Haiku, Moments of Life, Nature 301. The swift dreams of its chimney nest from afar, as the first snow fills it. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
October 26, 2020October 30, 2020Daily Haiku, Moments of Life, Nature 300. The wind flirts with the big ole oak — shit, there goes my hat! Love0 Share Tweet Read more
October 25, 2020October 30, 2020Daily Haiku, Favorites, Moments of Life 299. A plastic red wagon sits idle, waiting for nap time to end Love0 Share Tweet Read more
October 24, 2020October 30, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition 298. Cascading colors scroll down my computer screen, my eyes blank. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
October 22, 2020October 23, 2020Daily Haiku, Pandemic, Political / Social 296. for Winnie the Pooh (and American politics) Back and forth, up and down, touch your toes, spin around. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
October 21, 2020October 22, 2020"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 295. 2 a.m. Just lonely me and the ghosts that never show. Love0 […] Read more
October 20, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Political / Social 294. for Democrats and Republicans “We the People for the People.” Not, “Us the Politicians for us.” Love0 Share Tweet Read more
October 18, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature 292. All the way to Innisfree to feel escape; almost drowned, gulping water Love0 Share Tweet Read more
October 17, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature 291. How can we expect to write poems when nature is caged between fences? Love0 Share Tweet Read more
October 15, 2020October 17, 2020Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 289. Oh how many moons have come and gone, since that sparrow shit on my shoe? Love0 Share Tweet Read more
October 14, 2020October 17, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature 288. Another dig, immediately forgotten — the squirrel’s meditation Love0 Share Tweet Read more
October 9, 2020October 9, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Political / Social 283. infinite views opposing truths lead us to our Narcissistic selves Love0 Share Tweet Read more
October 8, 2020#blacklivesmatter, Daily Haiku, Political / Social, To the Masters 282. to the fly in Mike Pence’s hair (and Stevie Nicks) Again, poor fly! Frozen in wispy white lies. Landslide. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
October 7, 2020October 8, 2020#blacklivesmatter, Daily Haiku, Political / Social 281. for Robinson Jeffers and America Place your bets: the marionettes dance-tangled in the strings. Love1 Share Tweet Read more
October 1, 2020October 2, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, To the Masters 275. for Kansas If all we are is dust in the wind, at least there’s dust and wind. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
September 30, 2020October 1, 2020#blacklivesmatter, Daily Haiku, Moments of Life, Political / Social 274. for America That moment when you first wake up —still half-lost in a dream. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
September 28, 2020September 29, 2020Daily Haiku, To the Masters 272. for Hermann Hesse O, the paradox! disregard all life’s suffering — breathe, embrace the void. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
September 27, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature 271. I stare at the struggling stream, the coughing cars —can poetry save us? Love0 Share Tweet Read more
September 19, 2020September 27, 2020Daily Haiku, Political / Social 263. for Ruth Bader Ginsburg You exposed the glass house a myth; rather hardened stone. You shattered it just the same. Love0 Share […] Read more
September 17, 2020September 27, 2020Daily Haiku, Moments of Life, Nature 261. All the chaos of day quieted by crickets — midnight and porch and seltzer Love0 Share Tweet Read more
September 16, 2020September 17, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, To the Masters 260. for Allen Ginsberg An old man, the wilting rose — greedily sipping the last drops of joy. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
September 15, 2020September 17, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature, To the Masters 259. for Stanford M. Forrester My haiku about the dawn — outdone by the morning sun. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
September 14, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature, To the Masters 258. for Issa What a strange thing! fleas upon a cat, us upon this Earth. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
September 13, 2020September 14, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Self-Realization, To the Masters 257. for George Orwell Brooding on enormity it’s hard to see what’s in front of your nose. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
September 11, 2020September 12, 2020Daily Haiku, I was there..., Moments of Life, Nature 255. I was there… The Cheshire Cat moon grins down on Santa Cruz — bathes me in its glow. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
September 10, 2020September 11, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature, To the Masters 254. for Margaret Gibson Morning dawns an ode. Noon pens flowery prose. Eve croons to the stars and moon. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
September 9, 2020Daily Haiku, I was there..., Nature 253. I was there… The wind-swept leaves and honey bees upon the hills of Tuscany. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
September 8, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature 252. first note of birdsong in morning’s first light —the beginning of a poem Love0 Share Tweet Read more
September 7, 2020September 8, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature, Self-Realization 251. I apologize to the thrush for imbuing its song with my grief. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
September 5, 2020September 6, 2020Daily Haiku, Favorites, Nature 249. Morning steam lingers lazily on the concrete —souls on Lethe’s shore. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
September 4, 2020September 4, 2020Daily Haiku, Self-Realization 248. Thirty-four. I look through my phone: pizza parlors outnumber the friends. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
September 3, 2020September 3, 2020Daily Haiku, Favorites, Human Condition 247. To my father So deep in the sand that you no longer miss anything but the light Love0 Share Tweet Read more
September 2, 2020September 3, 2020Daily Haiku, Moments of Life, Nature 246. Lonely afternoon – all the hummingbirds flew south, leaving a silence. Love1 Share Tweet Read more
September 1, 2020September 3, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature 245. Summer stubbornly refuses to leave – digs in its heels before fall. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
August 28, 2020August 29, 2020#blacklivesmatter, Daily Haiku, Political / Social 241. Just remember the vigilantes of the past are now patriots. Love1 Share Tweet Read more
August 26, 2020August 28, 2020Daily Haiku, Favorites, Human Condition 239. It’s really just one big wave washing over eternity Love1 Share Tweet Read more
August 23, 2020August 28, 2020Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 236. Endless waves of billowing comforter mock my racing mind… Love0 Share Tweet Read more
August 17, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Political / Social 230. Strike your best pose and be sure to gaze lovingly into the light. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
August 14, 2020August 16, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature 227. Fiery electromagnetic cauldron; 94 million miles — good morning shadow dance Love0 Share Tweet Read more
August 10, 2020"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 223. I lay staring through her foreground’s brown blurry curls— past the ceiling: stars. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
August 4, 2020August 4, 2020Daily Haiku, Pandemic, Self-Realization, To the Masters 217. for Kristin George Bagdanov The architecture of your hand builds me from the ashes I’ve become. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
August 3, 2020August 4, 2020Daily Haiku, Self-Realization, To the Masters 216. for Margaret Gibson Cursed by perfect – and dwindling lives – but sometimes the making is enough. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
August 1, 2020August 3, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition 214. So difficult to mourn the ashes while the wildfires still rage. Love1 Share Tweet Read more
July 31, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Self-Realization 213. even if this is all there is — we should feel blessed it ever was Love1 Share Tweet Read more
July 29, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, To the Masters 211. for Kristin George Bagdanov We share the labors of this world — making nothing again and again. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 28, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Self-Realization 210. perhaps one of these poems will breathe breath beyond death — rise from ink and page Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 24, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition 206. Tomorrow, I tell myself again — Earth’s unwavering spin Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 23, 2020July 24, 2020Daily Haiku, Moments of Life, Self-Realization 205. It’s that choice in this moment — when all the plotting asks you, “Yes or no?” Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 22, 2020July 22, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature, To the Masters 204. for Gregory Corso I think of us all lost in stars; in the trem’bling urgency of night. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 21, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature 203. Even the cayenne weeps in this wobbly heat Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 20, 2020July 21, 2020"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 202. The weary jukebox singing the same tired songs of what could have been. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 18, 2020July 20, 2020#blacklivesmatter, Daily Haiku, Political / Social, To the Masters 200. for John Lewis I hope that longed-for wave of rhyming history isn’t far behind. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 17, 2020July 17, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, To the Masters 199. for RHCP Lucid lotos-eaters lounging on loam; eyes just mirrors for the sun. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 16, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature 198. The tired sun yawns, stretches its arms — bids the timid moon to take the stage. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 15, 2020July 16, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature 197. wind stampedes past startled leaves – flees the frenzied fury of the god-wrath Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 14, 2020July 15, 2020"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 196. for Jacques You look up and smile like a short story I read a long time ago. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 13, 2020Daily Haiku, Favorites, Nature 195. This midnight heat ripples the moonlight — a stone-faced toad Love1 Share Tweet Read more
July 12, 2020Daily Haiku, Favorites 194. silly man, silly man, sit at the front of the bar to be seen by the world Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 11, 2020July 20, 2020Daily Haiku, Favorites, Moments of Life, To the Masters 193. for Jack Kerouac night still-lonely — flick’ring candles dancing with the shadows on the page Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 10, 2020"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Favorites 192. “You have to let go,” she whispered, sun obscuring her to silhouette. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 9, 2020Daily Haiku, Favorites, Nature 191. Oh how many minds have been illuminated along this riverbank? Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 8, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Political / Social 190. Every passing person passing judgment – as I pass and pass my own. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 7, 2020Daily Haiku, Political / Social 189. All that’s left: vine- covered statues, a great wall keeping nothing out. Love1 Share Tweet Read more
July 6, 2020Daily Haiku, Favorites, Political / Social 188. At least Nero fiddled a song as Rome burned to the ground at his feet. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 5, 2020Daily Haiku 187. Now is the moment for bruised fruit, lest it rot to the core. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 4, 2020Daily Haiku, Favorites, Political / Social 186. Frozen hot dogs ecstatically waiting to be grilled in Freedom’s name. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 3, 2020Daily Haiku, Moments of Life 185. The old rat died alone in the barn, his mouth agape. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
July 2, 2020July 2, 2020Daily Haiku, Self-Realization, To the Masters 184. for F. Scott Fitzgerald “First you take a drink, and then the drink takes a drink – then the drink takes you.” […] Read more
July 1, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature 183. Beyond the gaseous bodies that illuminate our patterned symbols. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
June 30, 2020June 30, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature, To the Masters 182. for Cormac McCarthy Like a distant memory, the morning groundmist now hardened black clay Love1 Share Tweet Read more
June 29, 2020June 29, 2020Daily Haiku, Favorites, Moments of Life 181. A freshly picked book from among the stacked cluster – ripe with unread page. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
June 28, 2020June 29, 2020Daily Haiku, Favorites, To the Masters 180. for Orpheus “Was it worth it,” I ask, “losing her to make the Gods weep with your song?” Love0 Share Tweet Read more
June 27, 2020Daily Haiku, Pandemic 179. The gulf between thrills stretches ever further — the pandemic splits Love0 Share Tweet Read more
June 25, 2020June 25, 2020Daily Haiku, To the Masters 177. for Robinson Jeffers This immense rock is but a spectral fragment, spinning through eternity Love0 Share Tweet Read more
June 24, 2020June 24, 2020Daily Haiku, Favorites, Moments of Life, Nature 176. A young girl just noticed the lonely persimmon tree outside her window. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
June 23, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition 175. Xerses, Caesar; men have conquered the world, but kneel to a woman’s back. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
June 22, 2020June 22, 2020Daily Haiku, Favorites, Nature 174. Darkness trees. The acid leaves – glittering in brilliant shadows. Love0 Share Tweet Read more
June 21, 2020June 22, 2020Daily Haiku, Favorites, Nature, To the Masters 173. reading Basho in the rain – raindrops reciting him back Love0 Share Tweet Read more
