Tag Archives: Haiku

lifetime’s dashed hopes

Posted on April 1, 2023 by istsfor manity

dashed (haiku) counting his fortuneshe amassed a lifetime’s dashedhopes and dreams deferred What I’m Reading: “Dusk—and the shimmer on the seahas quickened and gone still.” — N. Scott Momaday / “Hotel 1829”

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six-mile iguana

Posted on March 27, 2023 by istsfor manity

seismograph wine (haiku) pollinate crosswindride the six-mile iguanabwana johnny time What I’m Reading: “And poetry isn’t deadIt’s gone to live on an upstate farmThe world is like that alsoGetting over its need to be seen” — Sarah Jean Grimm / … Continue reading →

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dark bramble vise

Posted on March 9, 2023 by istsfor manity

dementia tanka trickster tau tanglessticky beta amyloidsare gray matter sieves—a brain bombogenesis—dark bramble vise on your mind What I’m Reading: “Cruelty has a Human HeartAnd Jealousy a Human Face Terror the Human Form Divine ” — William Blake / “A Divine Image”

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to the rhythm

Posted on March 3, 2023 by istsfor manity

Plashed (haiku) The petrichor bloomedRain plashed & drummed my dread headDrowned to the rhythm What I’m Reading: “This is the age of the great greenwashing machine.” — Greta Thunberg / The Climate Book

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songs sung true

Posted on February 28, 2023 by istsfor manity

A Pall (haiku, tanka, ukiah) The snow falls like ashFrom a nuclear winter—Sorrow songs sung true. There are some good days,When voices of exile bray:The start is the end.The mournful rumble we hearWidens a crack in our souls. Our voices … Continue reading →

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in our blood

Posted on February 16, 2023 by istsfor manity

embodied (tanka) a strange faith we breatheinto our lives, in our bloodviolence braidedquotidian & steadfastembodied death incarnate What I’m Reading: “Do you lie thinkingThe stars in the skyWere a big mistake?” — Charles Simic / “Dear Lord”

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a barren hollow

Posted on January 28, 2023 by istsfor manity

hollow darkness sinks deeperinto a barren hollowthe sun shines elsewhere What I’m Reading: “The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.” — Samuel Beckett / Murphy

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this town was

Posted on January 14, 2023 by istsfor manity

sloughed (haiku) she sloughed off the past—this town was her place of birth,but she not of it.

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be just fine

Posted on January 13, 2023 by istsfor manity

Just Fine (haiku) Nothing understood,Nothing to rely upon—She would be just fine. What I’m Reading: “We are eroding. We are evolving. This is my mantra. The time has come to stop seeing ourselves as saviors and instead  see ourselves as human beings … Continue reading →

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eyes turned inward

Posted on January 10, 2023 by istsfor manity

death eyes (ukiah) eye had been given death eyesblack eyes turned inwardcoruscated eyes that burn What I’m Reading: “Was I sleeping while others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say … Continue reading →

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