Beautiful pictures
But lacking any sense of
Self and sympathy
Blast from the Past:
A picture’s worth a
Thousand words, but a film’s worth
A thousand pictures.
03/15/25 A New Haiku for a New Day
Category: Meta-Poems
Poems about writing poetry or writing in general
03/14/25 A New Haiku for a New Day
The best haikus are
The ones that I never
End up writing down
Blast from the Past:
Ode to that great thought
That disappeared when I went
To write it down here.
02/18/25 A New Haiku for A New Day
What is poetry?
Remove the words and meaning,
Poetry’s what’s left.
Blast from the Past:
Poets can’t afford
Only to sing about their
True inspiration
02/03/25 A New Haiku for a New Day
Orange leaves cover
The ground in February,
Baked in intense heat
(A reflection on the current weather in Northeast Thailand, where it is getting hot yet many trees loose their leaves. This feels different from the winters in the US that I am familiar with)
Blast from the Past:
I lie in the shade
Of your blistering haiku
No rest from the heat
12/27/24 Daily Poem
This poem didn’t
Have time for
The endless merchants,
Those too poor to leave,
All of the beggars,
Or the many maids
Cleaning up after we had gone
Blast from the Past:
Bureaucrat capitalists:
Arriving to save the day
Perfectly “neutral”
12/23/24 Haiku for the Day
Hair stood up, chapped lips,
Foggy brain, drooped eyes, parched throat,
Itchy crotch, moist socks
Posthumous title: Several Days in International Airports
Blast from the Past:
Lines of bright roads on
The dark landscape, like the veins
Of their society
12/22/24 Haiku for the Day
I am a haiku
In search of a meaning to
Attach myself to
Blast from the Past:
I tried including
So much into this haiku,
It had no meaning.
11/22/24 Haiku for the Day
Destroying the grand
Majesty of the blank page
With a squiggly line
Blast from the Past:
Filled with mysteries
Counted, compressed, and punctured
What is a haiku?
10/18/24 Haiku for the Day
Poetry is the
Discovery of things I’ve
Never seen before
Blast from the Past:
Writing my haiku
There into the sand as the
Wave finishes it