haiku master
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Haiku:"I wish you would die"...Words of grim finality...Echo in my mind...
Haiku:"You're a stupid fool"...I sure wish she'd couch it in...Less judgmental terms...
Haiku:Let me help you up...Solemn tones fail to disguise...Burst of impish glee...
Haiku:Please stay on the line...Maddeningly repeating...Did I have to call?...
Haiku:Thank you for your gift...That's very gracious of you...Lubricants of life...
Haiku:A bone-jarring thumpYet no lights, no sirens shriekEffect without cause
Haiku:A born optimistAlways saves the best for lastEven when theres none
Haiku:A churchly silence...Settles over valley floor...First rays tip the peaks...
Haiku:A curtain in timeDraws aside and you can touchYour grandparents youth
Haiku:A day like manyLittle triumphs, little woesBut not auspicious
Haiku:A dragon rampantMane of scaly flagellaTeeth like ancient swords
Haiku:A lifted eyebrow...Rich yet silent soul language...Talk between old friends...
Haiku:A drivers nightmareA zigzaggery of streets
Ziggurats of hills
Haiku:A dry, mournful wind...Scuffles the leaves like roaches...
In quiet garden...
Haiku:A natural factMoon's gravity pulls the tides
And he pulls the girlsHaiku:A meth addict seemsTo boil in his own juicesCooking deep inside
Haiku:A moment in timeCan love reach across the years?...Or was it a dream?...
Haiku:A simple conceptOne for you and nine for mePoliticians fear
Haiku:A perfect marriage...A snow scene sealed in Lucite...Snow job, rest of time...
Haiku:A poster boy forPhysical degradationOf the whole male race
Haiku:A two-eyed insectHis wraparound mirror shadesHiding gray-green thoughts
Haiku:A sludge of seconds
Slowly filled up a minuteWaiting to be seen
Haiku:A strata of clouds
Lining the dark horizonSuddenly catch fire
Haiku:About the 'Big Bang'...
Who supplied materials...At the dawn of time...
Haiku:A warrior, I...Once upon an ancient age...Still so far away...
Haiku:A whiff of sulfur...When you open up the book...Good cause to skip it...
Haiku:Across the meadow...Shimmering silver showers...Announce summer's end...
Haiku:Abyssal blacknessDeeper than the oceans darkMoonless night by bay
Haiku:Accelerator!A shriek of tortured rubberEager for highway
Haiku:Age-induced wisdom...Stop waiting for Prince Charming...Nice would be enough...
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Haiku:Admitting that he...Married for peach pie alone...Lucky she's pretty...
Haiku:Age mellows some folksAnd some cannot stand bullshitI am the latter
Haiku:Alice got it from...A smoking caterpillar...Does he have extras?...
Haiku:Air still thinly laced...With evening honeysuckle...Faint but sweet melange...
Haiku:Alas, I'm not skilled...At getting out of trouble...Only into it...
Haiku:Always drag alongUnearned but persistent guiltFor having survived
Haiku:Always a shadow...A wisp of ectoplasm...When bonuses come...
Haiku:Always bothered by...Weak and inconstant sixth sense...Sees trouble after...
Haiku:Always in public...Rational face to the world...In private, watch out!...
Haiku:Always good-naturedMellow as a surf-waxed brainBut, those days are gone
Haiku:Always in a rush...Psychological engine...With no lower gear...
Haiku:Always searching for...Vague distortion of the air...Shadow of the wind...
Haiku:Always listening forDowndraft of blades in his sleep
Smoking in the dark
Haiku:Always out of stepLike a mole that hates the dark
Something out of place
Haiku:AnachronisticNineteen-thirties Ford hot rod
With CD playerHaiku:An energy vortex...Puppy dances dizzily...Ceramic carnage...
Haiku:AnachronisticLike grandeur of a museumIn a game arcade
Haiku:Ancient spirits dwellSince before humanityBelow canyon rim
Haiku:Anchored in the past...How then can one go forward?Old pains pull me back...
Haiku:Ancient form of stressSeventeen-syllable poemsOh! I am crazy!...
Haiku:Announcing approachSoft beeps and musical tootsBig loaded forklifts
Haiku:And worse than alone
Is being on your own, andYou cant stand yourself
Haiku:Angry words flare up
Churning a bitter backwashAcid in my throat
Haiku:Architects bustle
Gentrifying the downtown...Quaintness injections...
Haiku:Another new taxYou expect the governmentTo be creative?...
Haiku:Antics which should ireSweeter than Gidget moviesGrand-baby power
Haiku:Around me a wall...Erected in dark hatred...Separates from love...
Haiku:Armor is rustyNot the shining knight she thoughtSorry, princess fair
Haiku:Arms full of novels...A prodigious appetite...For another world...
Haiku:As boys will be boysA bordello with burgersReal men have to eat
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Haiku:Arrogant enoughNot to care who else knew itJust-promoted boss
Haiku:As acute as grief...As enduring as sorrow...Losing someone's trust...
Haiku:As if changing keysTenor of the wind changesRushes with a shush
Haiku:As dark as the seaUnder passage of a cloud...Cold thoughts pursue me...
Haiku:As exposed as a mouseThe vibrato of hawk wingsSuddenly above
Haiku:As if solid thingsMassive slabs of crystal airThudding at my face
Haiku:As if displayingGods own private collectionStone-faced showcases
Haiku:As if Raiders fansThe silver-and-black paletteOf a moonlit night
Haiku:As sun first appearsThe imperceptible arcSeems to curve upwards
Haiku:As natural asDarkness follows a curtainStars simply appear
Haiku:As slippery asNarrative of a nightmareThings no one has seen
Haiku:Bad polarityShe was positive Im wrongAnd I negative
Haiku:At the soup kitchenThe empty look of a man
Not sure where he is
Haiku:Aware of dark sideFor every yang in my life
There must be a ying
Haiku:Bare branches weaving...Intricate lace of shadow...
In winter garden...Haiku:Baked bermuda grass...Gradually retreating...When does cactus come?...
Haiku:Balancing our lives...Twixt transcendance and terror...Make sushi or buy?...
Haiku:Battle in the treesThe boom and cry of the windAt war with itself
Haiku:Bartender, one moreSometimes isnt any homeYou can go home to
Haiku:Basics dont call forConvoluted logisticsBullets and THEN beans
Haiku:Beaten-up old carGilded with reflected sunSuddenly looks new
Haiku:Battlefield at dawn
Fields of mist and walls of fogIllusions of shapes
Haiku:Beaten down again...
Victim, not victimizer...Uncommitted sins...
Haiku:Bellies dark as lead
Spring clouds roll across the plainYet the birds still sing
Haiku:Beautifully tanAssiduously enhancedWith toners and oils
Haiku:Being good loserRequires only essentialPractice at losing
Haiku:Best to get a dogLoyal and sweet and cluelessCats put themselves first
Haiku:Belly dance of lifeVeil by veil reveals itselfAll except the last
Haiku:Best thing for a manSearching for identity...Is a good woman...
Haiku:Black granite facings...Starfire glass and stainless steel...FIRST National Bank...
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Haiku:Beyond the blue skyI will listen for my nameWhen your heart whispers
Haiku:Biscuits in gravy...Texas high-cholesterol...Tickets to heaven...
Haiku:Blonde straight hair flowing,'Barbie' sashays into room...Rounder women twitch...
Haiku:Blessings poured out on...Blighted lawn and sun-scorched street...Mid-summer shower...
Haiku:Blocking steps gabbingThe insouciance of thoseWho think they are owed
Haiku:Boasting and braggingSerpent who enjoys his hissWater-cooler ace...
Haiku:Blue of somber skySuggests an impending stormIn absence of clouds
Haiku:Blustering loudlyA gaggle of wannabesDressed in their hoodies
Haiku:Boiling with anger...Been so long marinated...Forever flavored...
Haiku:Boat on horizonShimmers and seems to vanishInto solar maw
Haiku:Boiler-room coffeeAs bitter as resentmentFive scoops, added salt
Haiku:Boss's stony heart...Would break the point of a pick...No wooden stakes here...
Haiku:Bored with busyworkInclination to wonder
Ground down under strain
Haiku:Boss inspires usWith human concern for those
Entrusted to him
Haiku:Bounding from their seats...Panthers in pursuit of prey...
Donuts in break room...Haiku:Bouncing from buildingsStreetscape of reflected fireBrighter than noonday
Haiku:Bouncing on soft clouds...Feet search for the slightest bind...Feel of new sneakers...
Haiku:Bright shards of sunlightLitter the shadowed pavementBelow tree branches
Haiku:Bowls of orange fireBrimming with summer sunshineYellow onyx cups
Haiku:Braiding the sunshineIn its cascading tressesWillow tree preening
Haiku:Can you see it now?Voluntary regimentsGoing to Iraq?
Haiku:Bulked-up muscles give
The illusion of menaceBelied by his voice
Haiku:Burning sabered sheep
Flames sweeping through the cornfieldsTales of mesa lands
Haiku:Carats of DeBeers
Worthless when comparing toBabys clay handprint
Haiku:Cant go into funkMusic and calls all day longFunk antibodies
Haiku:Can't always di-diOut of Indian countryHave to brass it out
Haiku:Caught by my own words...Like rat on a glue-board trap..."Let's do lunch sometime"...
Haiku:Carry on, but spendMore waking hours tormentedThan I do at peace
Haiku:Cat in my back yardSlinking slowly to stillnessRobins move to trees
Haiku:Cellphone to his earDriver signals for a leftHang up! I am there!...
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Haiku:Caught in late day sunsOblique illuminationShadows stretch for miles
Haiku:Caught stunned in midstrideLike fired worker shaking handOf his replacement
Haiku:Cicadas buzz, buzz...Like myriad short circuits...Electric evening...
Haiku:Chained to computerShriveled to bare subsistenceTwinkies and cola
Haiku:Changed depth of focusOthers focus on the glitzI look deep within
Haiku:Clicking on the glassFrozen mist raining diamondsLike DeBeers gone mad
Haiku:'Civilizing' Krags...Re-enslaving freed people...A chapter of shame...
Haiku:Clean lines, plain facadeAdobe architectureLike mesas of clay
Haiku:Cold and bitter windSeason when the thunder sleepsSlipping through the night
Haiku:Cloud billows cut rays...Narrow a swathe to a swatch...Samples of Gods paint...
Haiku:Coils of razor wireTrembling with silver lightStrung with shreds of men
Haiku:Collection of tiesBright serpents of silkCoiled in his closet
Haiku:Cold machine languageViolent as video
Grows in common use
Haiku:Collecting sunshine...Radiant as heater coils...
Car steering wheels...
Haiku:Common greeting words...With a new astringency...
'You're home late today'...Haiku:Colleges filled with...Self-important professors...Teaching nobody...
Haiku:Colonels lead paradeThey totally miss the pointPut their people first
Haiku:Concrete and shadowTomb of a hated pharoahBuried on the cheap
Haiku:Company has team...We whup ass, year after year...But not at business...
Haiku:Compressed and bloodless...Lips once so full of promise...Cannot meet life's strains...
Haiku:Convey hand gestures...To copulate with myself...I can count to one...
Haiku:Concussive noise like
Big subwoofer with a shortJust bumper-thumper
Haiku:Continuous fret
Never knowing which worryTo worry about
Haiku:Could our impure thoughts
Destroy the ozone layerGone by seventeen
Haiku:Cool temple gardenPunctuation of red bloomsBursting from the green
Haiku:Cordial as a snake...Warmth of barracuda's grin...Outside auditor...
Haiku:Crackle of thunderHailstones big as mothballs..Clatter on our roof
Haiku:Counter-DNA...Helical coils of deathRise from cigarette...
Haiku:Courteous and cool...Quality of arrogance..."Customer Service"...
Haiku:Culture had culture...Wear a tux at 10 a.m....None would bat an eye...
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Haiku:Crazy, foolish hope...Breaking down a wall with love...Worth the price you pay?
Haiku:Cropped hair bristlingSergeant takes his troops to taskHoping one will smile
Haiku:Darkness haunts my day...With my eyes alone I see...Camera is gone...
Haiku:Curling in and outDancing with the greeneryA more genteel wind
Haiku:Dark temple gardenThe moon like a lily padFloating on the pool
Haiku:Death's patient courtshipExample to the MountiesAlways gets his man
Haiku:Deal with the devilEducational fundingFrom gambling bills?...
Haiku:Death the same reward...For the reckless and timid...Neither will I be...
Haiku:Design enchants me...A two-door convertible...With wheels of fury...
Haiku:Deep beneath the streetTomb of a hated pharoahBuried on the cheap
Haiku:Desert creatures halt...Still as dawn on Judgment Day...Storm crests the mountains...
Haiku:Despite our effortsWe had never really livedOn the same planet
Haiku:Desk of cherrywood...Stained dark with ruby highlights...
Bosss pride and joy...
Haiku:Despair and perishIn the belly of the whale
Or cheer up and live
Haiku:Dissolved, cascadedTouched by a mis-hit fast ball
A glittering delugeHaiku:Dessicated palms...Cast frond shadows in the dust...Desert in moonlight...
Haiku:Digital wristwatchBut time ticking nonethelessColdly and silent
Haiku:Dont like to use aPejorative descriptorBut theres some assholes
Haiku:Doctors and actorsMilitating against deathDeath sniggles softly
Haiku:Doing fret-yogaMind-comfort calisthenicsAvoiding worry
Haiku:Dreams pass right through me...On the dark side of the dawn...None stay when I wake...
Haiku:Doors broken open...
Off their corroded hinges...Home now to varmints...
Haiku:Down under the sink...
Inventing obscenities...Repairing a leak...
Haiku:Drunken enginemen...
On a three-day pass from Hell...Boisterous with beer...
Haiku:Drifting ghosts of lightSuns retinal memoriesBack of my eyelids
Haiku:Dripping acid words...Corrosive strength to etch steel...My heart is not steel...
Haiku:Drunken enginemen...On a three-day pass from Hell...Bar owner rubs hands...
Haiku:Drunken enginemen...On a three-day pass from Hell...Barmaid steels herself...
Haiku:Drunken enginemen...On a three-day pass from Hell...Grabbing barmaids ass...
Haiku:Echoing cavernWithout ornamentationWork is done in here
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Haiku:Easy to suspect...If suspicion was enoughWe'd all be in jail...
Haiku:Echoes fill my mind...Airman shows off his new stripe...Been there, done that, too...
Haiku:Elegance awaitsClassy women crowd the loungeBut, no vacancies
Haiku:Einstein understood...We speak of laws of nature...Who set up the rules?
Haiku:Elderly ladyAs majestic as a brightSpiral galaxy
Haiku:Endless gray concreteSwirling flocks of showbirdsIts airshow weekend
Haiku:Encircled by plumesProtectorate of helmed knightsHiding rabbits nest
Haiku:Endless gray concreteSpiraling flocks of eaglesWaiting to descend
Haiku:Even the straightest...Conceal twisted emotions...Something out of plumb...
Haiku:Endless gray concreteCorridors all filled with doorsPass at every street
Haiku:Even if God chose...To proclaim my innocence...Guilty, I would be...
Haiku:Exotic, misty places...And eccentric characters...Fill my troubled sleep...
Haiku:Evening's rays of sun...Weave veils of gold and purple...
Looms within the clouds...
Haiku:Evil human handsCruelty a human heart
Terror human form
Haiku:Eyes open, heart pounds...Quickly scan the quiet room...
Fell asleep again!Haiku:Eyeless as Samson...Groping in the darkened room...For the ringing phone...
Haiku:Eyes eight feet off ground...Six tires and a big engine...Thinks he's a semi...
Haiku:Family fights are...Consequence of genetics...She's female, he's not...
Haiku:Faded sunflowersLean against the garden fenceFighting their last fight
Haiku:Family album...Photographic evidence...I was once young, too...
Haiku:Fast-passing clouds bringAn illusion of coolnessThe sun above laughs
Haiku:Fancy new kitchen
With retro-chic stainless steelGive me old cast iron
Haiku:Far-off yipping bark
Marking the waiting gravesiteOf dying sunset
Haiku:Feeling small and mean
Spoke harshly to puppydogNot watching own feet
Haiku:Feathered cirrus cloudsLike a giant wing in skyLifting up the day
Haiku:Feathery shadowsFloating silent across moonOwls are out prowling
Haiku:Fighting without wordsGodzilla versus MothraArmed with hostile stares
Haiku:Fertile smell of soilForcing fingertips in mudHunting for weed root
Haiku:Festooned with ornateShimmering star necklacesGalaxies appear
Haiku:Filling tree bellies...With flares of shimmery light...Headlights on wet street...
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Haiku:Filled with favoriteOf government architectsFlavorless hallways
Haiku:Filling airwaves with...Cynical dogmatism...Public radio...
Haiku:Fingers drumming dashLike agitated spidersWaiting in the car
Haiku:Find a new contact...Drawn by vibes or pheremones...Others flock behind...
Haiku:Finger-burning heat...Tips dancing on steering wheel...Forgot my sunshade...
Haiku:Flags of fear raised highThis parade of rampant dreadsUpsetting my dreams
Haiku:First light always pinkRapidly floods across skyWicked up by sunrise
Haiku:First time in my lifeThat I had spoken straight to GodKnowing he listened
Haiku:Flower-power kids...The Age of Aquarius...Meets A.A.R.P....
Haiku:Flickr-ing awayFriends comments bring bright laughterSuspicious boss frowns
Haiku:Flickr's a journey...National Geographic...Without yellow frame...
Haiku:For years committingSuicide in incrementsOne drink at a time
Haiku:Flower-print dressesAnd some perfume that would numb
Olfactory sense
Haiku:For those who cannot...Envision a world beyond...
Bleak this world must be...
Haiku:Freshly un-engaged...10 degrees more desperate...
For validation...Haiku:Forming on her hair...Black mantilla of shadow...Underneath the trees...
Haiku:Four legs in the airSoliciting a belly rubA wish soon granted
Haiku:Frilly yellow blouse...Like an iced lemon cupcake...Ready for the dance...
Haiku:Friendships made in thereBegan and ended at doorLike those in a bar
Haiku:Frightening nightmare...Vivid and threatening, but...Not rich in detail...
Haiku:Frozen like a twigGrasshopper prays for mercyEager bird eyes search
Haiku:From the TV ads...
Windows of melancholy...Children's eyes haunt me...
Haiku:Frozen by surprise
Twin reflections of my faceSee your license please?
Haiku:Full battle-rattle
Creeping through the Stygian gloomDark against darkness
Haiku:Frustrated, she weptIrrigation providedDry seeds of hope swelled
Haiku:Frustrating workplaceA life of interruptionUncompleted thoughts
Haiku:Garage door raised high...Sweat drips onto fresh clean clothes...Note: Launder at night...
Haiku:Full-face bike helmetA smooth, characterless sheenGaze of an insect
Haiku:Fuzzy-edged shadowAs insubstantial as smokeJust outside my sight
Haiku:Getting in my face...Seeking a confrontation...I just walk away...
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Haiku:Gathered on the porchListen to each others ills...Commiseration...
Haiku:Generosity...Not my initial impulse...Grumpily, I give...
Haiku:Gods paintbrush sloshes...Crimson has seeped down the sky...Pooling on the earth...
Haiku:Giggling on the windWhispered secrets are exchangedSchoolgirls are passing
Haiku:Gleaming slot machinesClanging a downpour of coinsOld ladies joyous
Haiku:Gold fades to embers...In great furnace of the sky...Shadows black as char...
Haiku:Goddess of the nightShe owned the stars alreadyThe moon bowed to her
Haiku:Godlike, the pilot...Reigning over seas of clouds...Tiny jet, big sky...
Haiku:Good old managementKeeping therapists employedThrough secrets and lies
Haiku:Golden sun and airAnd the promise of the dayGrace my breakfast plate
Haiku:Good barber's advice...Ill-advised to poison life...With whiskey or drugs...
Haiku:Gravel parking lotPebbles pooled with gray waterLayered with beer cans
Haiku:Gotta love bossesAlways tell when they're lying
Their lips are moving
Haiku:Grabbing at the stringThoughts like helium balloons
Escaping on a breeze
Haiku:Grinned at his lossesEyes wrinkling at corners
Down, but never outHaiku:Gray-white wisps of smokeTrapping yellow light within...Cigarette at dawn...
Haiku:Grinding my way throughSome tedious paperworkInk lobotomy
Haiku:Gun has a safetyNo safety on my heartNo red dot revealed
Haiku:Groping through the nightWith wind, snow, dust and darknessMaking eyes useless
Haiku:Grungy parking lotCrushed building materialThat was spiked with weeds
Haiku:Had spent a lifetimeSeeing people in duressWhen the best comes out
Haiku:Had my fill of man
Off to search for lonelinessBack when I find it
Haiku:Had my fill of man
Off to search for lonelinessBack when I find it
Haiku:Harried stockroom clerks
Unpacking, sorting, waitingFor the close of sales
Haiku:Halloween costume...Burn with humiliation...In high heels and wig...
Haiku:Haloing the light...Swirling gray spirals of smoke...Pre-dawn cigarette...
Haiku:Hated way to wakeGargling stomach acidMaalox calling me
Haiku:Harvest moon shiningOn an obsidian bayPumpkin on the sea
Haiku:Has Eskimo genesBreaks a sweat at ten degreesWhile I snuggle deep
Haiku:He stood in the lightBut he was not warmed by itFrozen in his soul
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Haiku:Hatemongering...Envy and self-interest...Academia...
Haiku:Hatless in the sunFace turning as hard and brownAs a worn saddle
Haiku:Hearing angry words...First shimmer of tears not spent...Mists over my eyes...
Haiku:Health insurance planNeed calculus equationsTo see if youre sick
Haiku:Heard but not quite heardOminous heavy rhythmBoom box car, two miles
Haiku:Heaven beckons meEarth a cold, forgotten placeWhen I see her eyes
Haiku:Heat-baked attic pops...Like boogey-man infested...Only late at night...
Haiku:Heat-sick and restless...The cloth walls of my office...Form a cooking bag...
Haiku:Hermetic impulse...Inversion of wanderlust...Shutters the windows...
Haiku:Here there is a hope...No matter how black the night...Shadows leave no stain...
Haiku:Here, I am at peaceIn my mental hideawayHere, I cant be harmed
Haiku:Horn blares passing streetMy heart a thundering herdStampeding inside
Haiku:Hiding my face...Chinks in ten-fingered armor...
Let puppy kiss through...
Haiku:Hooting flutes and drumsBounce from dry adobe walls
Callers Of The Clouds
Haiku:Hot wind arises...Sinuous sun serpents flex...
On surface of pool...Haiku:Horns blaring in bayWindshields blaze and brightwork gleamsBlessing of the fleet
Haiku:Hot anger spits outExplicit indecencyTurn to see who hears
Haiku:Huddled at my feet...Dream on the wrong side of sleep...Bunny softly glows...
Haiku:How the passions cool...Anger drifts to emptiness...Red shading to black...
Haiku:Howling through the treesWith imitation of wolvesWind calls out in night
Haiku:I am a bulldogClamping down upon this worldI will persevere
Haiku:Huge pair of oak trees...
Between these leviathans...Fragile marigolds...
Haiku:Hunkered low in pain...
Beaten down by anger's din...Sometimes the hours...
Haiku:I cant imagine
The horror of being herHated by mother
Haiku:I am the boatmanRowing you to restful sleepIn a safe harbor
Haiku:I cant imagineThe horror of being herHated by mother
Haiku:I humbly admitThe scope of my ignoranceCould be breathtaking
Haiku:I cannot recallWhy I need these creams and salvesBrushing vanished hair
Haiku:I hate violenceBut I hate injustice moreOnly God restrains
Haiku:I sometimes wonderWhy I have not gone insaneBut maybe I have
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Haiku:I must write, write, write...
Haiku is a poet's gift...Trapped by my own words...
Haiku:Im not eccentricInterestingly odd friendsArent easy to find
Haiku:I still remember...Hormone-drenched teen fantasies...Always the hero...
Haiku:I surely must beLacking some crucial knowledgeAlways in trouble
Haiku:I'd cut off my hand...As if that made any sense...As proof of my love...
Haiku:Im not like AtlasCant carry the world on backBut feel like I should
Haiku:Icons of the past...Old soldiers sit and drink beer...Doing their duty...
Haiku:If you call my name...Drive pedal-to-the-metal...Just getting to you...
Haiku:If I only had...Large financial resources...Be poor as a mouse...
Haiku:If it's boiled down...Essence of my existence...Trying to be nice...
Haiku:I'm what you might call...Target-rich environment...Easy to aim at...
Haiku:If, for a moment...Magic overruled physics...
Far out past the stars...
Haiku:Ill, but jovialHumorous acknowledgement
Made his problem less
Haiku:In a honeyed tone...Seeing if diners happy...
Calculating tip...Haiku:Imminent or not...Delayed gratification...Just is not my thing...
Haiku:Imminent or not...Delayed gratification...Just is not my thing...
Haiku:In lands of magicImages become transformedSati is around
Haiku:In a music mood...Tapping rhythm on the dash...An infectious tune...
Haiku:In a troubled dream...Finding myself in a place...I have never been...
Haiku:In my secret placeNeed a little solitudeDon't piss in my cage
Haiku:In my hidden heart
Here I know my destinyKnow where I must go
Haiku:In my little boat
The white-capped aqua watersPromise fish down deep
Haiku:In wind-powered ships
Captains had autonomyBoo on radios
Haiku:In the witness boxLying with impunityAs if elected
Haiku:In this floating worldWith no one to call my ownIm an alien
Haiku:Indifferent toThe role of an eccentricImposed by others
Haiku:In your first combatYou think you know, butTurns out to be different
Haiku:Incipient dawnStars take on a purple edgeAs their light seeps out
Haiku:Infinite blacknessReal evil walks this worldNot faded to gray
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Haiku:Industrial townAncient brick factory stacksBelching ugly death
Haiku:Infected my mind...With such a potent virus...My thoughts are poisoned...
Haiku:Iron-shod hooves on groundCould make no louder thunderBooming of my heart
Haiku:Innocent danger...Puppy in freeway center...Stopping all the lanes...
Haiku:Iraqi desert...A slough of treacherous sand...Not worth walking on...
Haiku:Judging by desktop...A furious dark angel...Went purely berserk...
Haiku:Jewel-bright embersLike a huge palace burningFar side of heaven
Haiku:Joy in the officeThe network had burpedDead management tools
Haiku:Knocking at windowsCausing panes to shake in frightHobgoblins of wind
Haiku:Just sending e-mailsExceeded my skill levelNow, whats that X for?...
Haiku:Keep having this strange...Compulsion to keep moving...While hawk's in the air...
Haiku:Laden with pathosNo need to speak the languageNo tea, no rice, no
Haiku:Lab rat starts to senseA world beyond the glass lid
Dark forms and figures
Haiku:Lacerating wordsSever tendons of my will
Powerless and limp
Haiku:Laughing at the sceneWe were young, and rebels, too
When we still had hairHaiku:Lake of mercuryWith rings of sparkling diamondsUnder silver moon
Haiku:Late afternoon bringsRouge light and mordant shadowsA street scene from Hell
Haiku:Let it all hang out...Exotic experience...Starbuck's with it all...
Haiku:Lengthening shadows...Cast by the westering sun...Bring night from below...
Haiku:Lengthening shadows...Pull purple shrouds over streets...As day lies dying...
Haiku:Life of unreasonAnd irrational beliefsLeft him ill-prepared
Haiku:Let me show you my...
Plastic fantastic whizbang...Modern miracle...
Haiku:Life has scored some hits...
Fewer than I expected...But far too many...
Haiku:Lifes ephemeral
Nothing more to gain or loseChasing windshadows
Haiku:Life to me requiresA capacity for aweJoy to be amazed
Haiku:Life was more grounded...In truth, reason and good will...Woodstock changed all that...
Haiku:Like a gray pinballMockingbird dances the treeCrickets his trophies
Haiku:Life's a tightrope walk...Emotional precipice...To new precipice...
Haiku:Like a ball of yarnUnraveled by a kittenThe tale of my life
Haiku:Like every day...Full of possibilities...Only you can change...
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Haiku:Like a re-used tombDeep under Egyptian sandsFilled with fumes of gas
Haiku:Like a saint, convincedOf perfectibilityOf humanity
Haiku:Like she would studyA specimen on a slideWatching from barstool
Haiku:Like mobile home byMagnificent old mansionsNot too hard to find
Haiku:Like other choicesIn retrospect outright dumbSeemed good at the time
Haiku:Like TV preacherImmaculately clean-cutGroomed and straightforward
Haiku:Like some movie starSilver shirt dancing with lightKerchief around throat
Haiku:Like the written scriptOf some great mad fantasyReport to Congress
Haiku:Lived each day with aLifelong expectation ofImpending sweet joy
Haiku:Lined up like soldiersSwallows preen upon a wireReady for patrol
Haiku:Live under the threatOf imminent violenceIn temples of peace
Haiku:Lonely, lost, broken...All of us who pass this way...Need some help some day...
Haiku:Living takes such a...Mental and physical toll...
Looking for tollbooth...
Haiku:Lonely moon-glazed roadLong ribbon of lightness in
The spectral desert
Haiku:Long-out-of-business...Fifty-cent gas signs still stand...
By outside benches...Haiku:Long jackrabbit earsInsinuating upwardThrough the chaparral
Haiku:Long-haired brush streams ink...Sinuous lines kiss parchment...Peony flowers!...
Haiku:Loosening occurs...In hinges of my reason...Oiled by my anger...
Haiku:Looking for repute...A man of literature...Rapper learns to read...
Haiku:Looking in your eyesWords are swept away by windsTyphoons of the soul
Haiku:Low-ceilinged and meanTomb of a hated pharoahBuried on the cheap
Haiku:Lost in my mind's eye...
Seeking shadows of the wind...My life walked away...
Haiku:Lost within myself
As fallen leaves drift slowlyOn placid river
Haiku:Lying to her face
Like conventioneers promiseTo behave himself
Haiku:Luminous colorLike shards in stained-glass windowsSun-bright autumn leaves
Haiku:Lying in my bed...I succumb to quiet tears...Where no others hear...
Haiku:Man of half-formed clay...My identity in doubt...Uniform shaped me...
Haiku:Lying without youEach night lasts a thousand yearsWhen will you return?
Haiku:Major weaponrySchwarzenegger movie gunBulky and unreal
Haiku:Merely magneticResent those who attract girlsThrough gravitation
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Haiku:ManufacturingMagically mystical.Madness in moonlight
Haiku:Many people lookHealthy right before they dieLucky I look sick
Haiku:Mild abstract pleasureLogic precisely applied
Haiku:Messenger of dawnCool wind heals the warmth of nightFlowing through my soul
Haiku:Midnight-purple nightShooting star a brief bright scarThen the heavens healed
Haiku:Mind gripped with fever...Fingers dancing flamenco...Poetry flies out...
Haiku write themselves Haiku:Milky radiance...Softens shadows of the night...Alabaster glow...
Haiku:Mirror, listen up!Im smarter than I lookI would have to be
Haiku:Mirror on the wallMust you show my misery?...Ugly stares at me
Haiku:Mirror shades showingImages of minaretsAnd broken city
Haiku:More than just a wifeA wingman flying defenseWatching at my six
Haiku:Mirror, must I cry?My waistline is pulling down
Hair into my head
Haiku:Moon settles lowerTurning down the purple glow
To infinity of night
Haiku:Most reluctantlyEnjoying this interlude
Close my lunch bucketHaiku:More time in gutter...Than alcoholic hobo...Yes, I'm a bowler...
Haiku:Morning sun stabs me...Fistfuls of golden needles...Flash before my eyes...
Haiku:Munchkin, overnight...A twenty-something housewife...220-volt clock?
Haiku:Mountain battlementsStark memory of a warFought above the clouds
Haiku:Mourning dove calling...Melancholy quality...At the fade of day...
Haiku:My armor's rusty...Not the shining knight she thought...Sorry, fair princess...
Haiku:Music sends me back...
Duke in trademark white tux...A Train To Harlem...
Haiku:Muted cloth for walls
Tomb of a hated pharoahBuried on the cheap
Haiku:My wife lays no claim
To courage or devotionBut possesses all
Haiku:My cigarette smokeCorkscrewing upwardTo ravel away thinly
Haiku:My own NirvanaA metaphysical placeBeyond time and space
Haiku:Napping toddler's hair...Feathered like a raven's wing...Lies across her face...
Haiku:My workday refugePadded cell without a doorOffice cubicle
Haiku:Nameless and faceless...While we celebrate in peace...Watchers walk the walls...
Haiku:Need to move, move, moveSubtle, unmistakeablePull of open road
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Haiku:Nature's vehemenceAmazes city-dwellersNature is NOT cute
Haiku:Nearby "bedroom" town...Shabby, sweltering houses...Give lie to richness...
Haiku:Neighborhood youth gangItinerant psychopathsCruising for victims
Haiku:Needing just about...Three big pots of black coffee...Days I remember...
Haiku:Neighborhood cafeCandlelight throbs pleasantlyBurnishing faces
Haiku:No more real to us...Than Sea of Tranquility...Next county over...
Haiku:New guy on the deskShifty little peckerwoodGlad that hes a temp
Haiku:No doctor or nurseNo power could heal the woundThat no one could see
Haiku:No refuge I see...My body devastates me...Aching in my brain...
Haiku:No more stinking dyes...Silvery luminescence...Gives my head a glow...
Haiku:No more TV news...Having seen enough, too much...Switching to the game...
Haiku:Not fulfilling hisEnemy's expectationsMoving to counter
Haiku:Not afraid of spooks...Imagination big enough...
To absorb these things...
Haiku:Not an eye-blink longThe duration of a flap
Of hummingbird wings
Haiku:Not so much to some...Getting a Flickr award...
It's a thrill to me...Haiku:Not good ideaSpilling speed where reptiles feedWatch out over there!...
Haiku:Not how fast you run...Nor even how gracefully...But if you're moving...
Haiku:Office Monday startsCounting the weekends e-mailsWith rageful ranting
Haiku:Nothing like a bookFor silent companionshipDogs do bark, you know
Haiku:Obesity tools?...A crane and a flatbed truck...For the mortician?...
Haiku:Old friends can triggerTornadoes of memoriesFlattening your peace
Haiku:Oh! Migraine headache...
Bolts of lightning in my head...Fearing the thunder...
Haiku:Oh, its only me...
Just something stuck to your shoe...No one important...
Haiku:On its feathered sails
Deadly field-mouse-hunting owlSwoops low and silent
Haiku:Old woman with cane...A work of grace and glory...Gingham dignity...
Haiku:Old, forgotten men...Once with hawk-like pride they stood,Warriors at the walls...
Haiku:One thing guaranteed...Loosen locking pins in knees...Rain-fed lawn has grown...
Haiku:On one summer dayWind turns into a blowtorchThe ground into flint
Haiku:Once and long ago...The hawk and I were hunters...He alone flies free...
Haiku:Orange numeralsMy sleep-depriving musingsFlicker through my brain
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Haiku:Once you have found theProper place and perspectiveThe future opens
Haiku:Only a nice guySaints are made of plasterNeither see nor hear
Haiku:Pale blue skies shade to...Apocalyptic crimson...Hope of day dying...
Haiku:Ordering by mail...Byzantine killing machine...Made by Acme Inc....
Haiku:Others quest for GodHe found me, because hesOne Who Answers Me
Haiku:Peeping bosss gaze...Tenses up work-sore shoulders...Like key-wound clock springs...
Haiku:Palely, through the clouds...Nurturing mother of earth...Wakes morning softly...
Haiku:Palms thrashed and twistedAgainst a perfect blue skyBrisk off-shore breezes
Haiku:People think I liveJust one station up the dialFrom insanity
Haiku:Pelican circlesLooking for unwary fishRows itself higher
Haiku:People kneel, talkingSpeaking foreign languagesI dont understand
Haiku:Perhaps, in the end...Love is a promise fulfilled...A trust unbroken...
Haiku:People will believeWhat they want to believe
Regardless of truth
Haiku:Perched up in its treeAmused by humanity
Bluejay laughs at me
Haiku:Plans are uncertain...Currently contemplating...
Planning a new plan...Haiku:Piping high pitched criesApocalyptic wind flocksBeat wings against walls
Haiku:Pity and ennuiSeen in the eyes of othersFollowed me to sleep
Haiku:Playing with the moonWisp of cloud tickles her toesGiggles in heaven
Haiku:Planting my feet wideTo resist the rushing windLike an evening tide
Haiku:Playing a tripwireWith a short violin bowMore preferable
Haiku:Polite is betterLife is filled with conflictNo reason for more
Haiku:Please re-elect the
Incompetent and brainlessSmart ones are scary
Haiku:Pleasure by the pint...
Sybaritic richness calls...Strawberry ice cream...
Haiku:Powdered Gatorade...
Cleaning fluid with sugar...Bitterly quenches...
Haiku:Pollinating beesFly droning toward silken snaresWith blossom tripwires
Haiku:Polos and blue jeans...Depth of my wardrobe dazzles...And Ralph Lauren weeps...
Haiku:Purple shading pinkHue of the sky announcingDawn within the hour
Haiku:Puppy hoping forLittle scratch around the earsNuzzles at ankle
Haiku:Puppy, twisting, snaps...Possessed by crocodile ghost?...Chasing after flies...
Haiku:Pushers and pimps andStreet punks who think they're made guysDennys, 3 AM
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Haiku:Purple, but a tuxAs interpreted by aSwooning romantic
Haiku:Purr of the engine...Like a highway lullaby...Baby lies sleeping...
Haiku:Putting voice to thoughtsAbsent segue and contextStarting in midstream
Haiku:Pushing shadows eastWestering sun can measureTime that it has left
Haiku:Put in for relief...As disaster area...Life's storms have battered...
Haiku:Racing for success...Couldn't outrun who I am...Back to simpler ways...
Haiku:Puzzled bluejay squawks...Dancing down from limb to limb...Peaches have been picked...
Haiku:Quitting time at lastGather my unraveled nervesInto my lunch pail
Haiku:Raised the sails of hopeWhen seemed no wind to fill themThe faith of a wife
Haiku:Radio blasting...Sailing the blacktop rivers...Teenage Friday night...
Haiku:Rainswept grass glistensStars salting themselves on earth..In long rays of sun
Haiku:Record of my lifePreempted any chance ofPresumed innocence
Haiku:Rattlesnake contrails...Continuously curving...
Tell of the dogfight...
Haiku:Ready to rumbleSmoking tires and turning heads
Battery is dead
Haiku:Reduced to the bare...Essence of my existence...
My reading glasses...Haiku:Recounting my faults...I cover my face, abashed...Am I truly so?...
Haiku:RediscoveringThe fascinating blanknessHospital ceiling
Haiku:Rhythm in my earsThe oars of a sculling heartCarry me onwards
Haiku:Reeling rhythms clash...Words do battle, spin away...Pure intensity...
Haiku:Reincarnation?...Don't believe in taxes, no...But I still pay them...
Haiku:Rocking in the chopWide slate-green expanse of lakeFish ripples spreading
Haiku:Rich with bitterness...
Scent intriguing to my nose...Morning coffee calls...
Haiku:Rippling of silk...
As green as lotus petals...Cheongsam jewel...
Haiku:Seashells and sand dunes
Silver the deserted beachCaught in the moonlight
Haiku:Same way that you knowWhen a predator's eyeballsBrush across your skin
Haiku:Satan has reserved...Special suite of fiery rooms..."Role Models" of clay...
Haiku:Seeking a new life...One that has not peed on me...Reading the want ads...
Haiku:Second glance revealsQuality underneath grimeLike mud-stained Guess jeans
Haiku:Secret of successWildly uncomplicatedDo unto others
Haiku:Serious case ofLaugh-deficit disorderOutside auditor
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Haiku:Self-deprecatingHave no target but myselfWorthy of my aim
Haiku:Self-proclaimed psychicSearches in the parking lotFor his missing keys
Haiku:Shadows hard as ironMoving through the alleywaysEnemy ahead
Haiku:Setting new record...The vertical-jump-and-gasp...Cold nose in my back...
Haiku:Shading from blond to...Patinated silver gray...What's left of my hair...
Haiku:Shaggy moonshadows...A silver moonlit desert...Lined with dead palm trees...
Haiku:Shadows in the darkThe soft whiteness of snowflakesKiss me on my nose
Haiku:Shadows slanting westYearning for that horizonThe night wind followed
Haiku:Shapes but not facesThe dark smoky glass looks likeA window in Hell
Haiku:Shaking fist at street...Pimpled driver stares unfazed...Stupid "boom-box" cars...
Haiku:Shape of a shadowMoves, sinuous and soundlessProwling alleycat
Haiku:Shopping at car lot...As the mouse is to panther...I to a salesman...
Haiku:Shiny green tendrilsStretch for the sky greedily...
Mowing time again...
Haiku:Shooting at heroMovie gun goes limp with fear
Missing at five feet
Haiku:Shredded and witheredBeaten before I begin
Still, I trudge homewardHaiku:Show me with your eyes...The world that you populate...Far-off Flickr friend...
Haiku:Shrapnel in the woundForever laceratingEven though it healed
Haiku:Silence and darknessWeigh upon me from aboveLike objects with mass
Haiku:Shrieking its hunger...Bird cracks its orange beak wide...Tiny mother feeds...
Haiku:Shuffling their cars...With wicked expectation...Car lot re-invents...
Haiku:Sit gazing upwardsThe moon's mesmerizing stareGazing back at me
Haiku:Silver turquoise ring...
Left-over St. Elmo's fire...From Creation's birth...
Haiku:Since boys will be boys...
A bordello with burgers...Real men have to eat...
Haiku:Sitting on back porch...
Watching the dawn develop...Over my coffee...
Haiku:Sitting in desertLaughing at the moonBrother coyote
Haiku:Sitting in my chair...Fog of sleep began to creep...Tendrils surround me...
Haiku:Slow traffic summons...Rage of a rabid jackal...Honking cars swap lanes...
Haiku:Sleeping so soundlyA deep susurrus of surfFrom bedside machine
Haiku:Slider doesn't workFast ball can't find the strike zoneUse your change-up pitch
Haiku:Smell of barbecueMentally savoring tasteHinted on the air
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Haiku:Small diner waitressPouring out verbal syrupWith the apple pie
Haiku:Small talk has no charm...But weighty subjects bore you...Better to stay mute...
Haiku:Sniffing messagesFrom hydrants to the fencepostsPuppydog texting
Haiku:Smokers on the porchPause to take in the new dawnSix A.M. beauty
Haiku:Sneakers so white-brightAppear to be radiantPoke from ragged jeans
Haiku:So many assholesCould buy group health insuranceGet a block discount
Haiku:So big and wickedUnreal as the weaponryOf Schwarzenegger
Haiku:So hot with my shame...It would not surprise me if...Grass flamed beneath me...
Haiku:Social-working chefAdjusting the seasoningOn overcooked thoughts
Haiku:So often have to...Swab earwax from aorta...Listen with my heart...
Haiku:So quiet the night...Traffic light controls go THUNK!...Changing red to green...
Haiku:Some mornings my faceFissured as glaze on antiqueCome to think of it
Haiku:Softly casualWith trimmed-and-scrubbed sloppiness
Sharp creases in jeans
Haiku:Solitude of sky...Playing tag with jutting clouds...
Earth a memory...
Haiku:Soothing waters form...A palace for the spirit...
Soaking in the tub...Haiku:Sometimes I can be...Stupefyingly stupid...Now, for example...
Haiku:Somewhere for us allAppointment in SamarraMade without consent
Haiku:Soul-less cities build...Heartless canyons of design...With drones in a hive...
Haiku:Sorrow can possessA depth that goes deeper thanBottom of the soul
Haiku:Sorting nickel bags...Hands made to play concertos...Modern tragedy...
Haiku:Sparkle of the chrome...Washing off encrusted dirt...Luster of the paint...
Haiku:Sound of drums and flutes
Floats up out of kiva roofCeremony night
Haiku:Spare me the lectures...
Shoot me, get it over with...Or leave me alone...
Haiku:Spiraling seashell...
Like auditory canal...Does it hear us think?...
Haiku:Special place insideUntouched private cathedralNobody can find
Haiku:Spiders down the spine...Possibles and other ifs...TV analysts...
Haiku:Squawking with anger,Bluejay chases squirrel off...Female rests in nest...
Haiku:Sprays of silver coinsArc and sparkle in the nightIn garden fountain
Haiku:Springing from the page...Words bring pictures to my mind...Lived a thousand lives...
Haiku:Staring at the wall...Waiting a word of comfort...The phone never rings...
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Haiku:Standing on mesaNothing fills horizons voidEmpty blue distance
Haiku:Stared at me blanklyLike he cant assimilateThe fact of his wound
Haiku:Stones cannot nourishWords cannot bring back the pastNor sand slake a thirst
Haiku:Startled by a yapFrom elsewhere a bark, a woofQuarrelsome chorus
Haiku:Startled from my dreamsHelicopter rotor blades...Whopping in my sleep
Haiku:Stranger on the phoneNo, I really would not likeDeal on a new loan
Haiku:Straight-haired blond 'Barbie'Basks at ease in glow of friends...Dark-haired, waitress toils...
Haiku:Straining through the clouds...Hours above the horizon...Almost hear sun sigh...
Haiku:Struggling with the aches...Life has troweled upon him...One stair at a time...
Haiku:Streaming crimson lightFrom edge of horizon castsSoft dusky shadows
Haiku:Struggling slowlyI make my way in this worldWhy must I fight it?...
Haiku:Suddenly set freeTo loop and turn and tangleString of a balloon
Haiku:Studdingsails flyingBlood splashes the quarterdeck
Ships of oak novel
Haiku:Sudden shock of eyesWarm but enigmatic blue
Husky yawns and stares
Haiku:Sun-baked gazebo...Greenery-scented shadows...
Backyard paradise...Haiku:Sun slowly slides toAn irreversible deathDays promise fading
Haiku:Sun through thick clouds hasThe dirty iridescenceOf lights in prison
Haiku:Sweating yet freezingThe aftershock of a dreamRotors in the night
Haiku:Sun-blasted landscape...Shacks sliding into ruin...Forgotten highway...
Haiku:Sunset horizonGlowing with iridescenceTrapped behind earth's rim
Haiku:Talent for disguiseA genius for deceptionGood in spy not guy
Haiku:Sweetness supplanted
By a dysfunctional rageSimmering anger
Haiku:Swiftness and boldness...
Around new girl in office...May lead to coldness...
Haiku:Tank on battlefield...
Grim implacability...If it is angered...
Haiku:Talk between old friendsStringing words and silencesInto sentences
Haiku:Tall and stately oakBows to earth on shattered knees...Windstorm in the night...
Haiku:That which you may findSo lovely in the moonlightMay not stand the day
Haiku:Taste of honeydewThe sweet fragrance of jasmineNo warning labels
Haiku:Teens feel bulletproofDrop lighted matches in gasWithout consequence
Haiku:The blue of bottles...Of old Milk of Magnesia...Dragonflies darting...
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Haiku:That's where I work at...Down below Hospital Hill...In Jackrabbit Flats...
Haiku:The atheists scoff...Who began the beginning?And the time before?
Haiku:The fluid quivers...In the hollows of my spine...Colonoscopy...
Haiku:The crap they sell hereA more refined qualityThan crap at WalMart
Haiku:The face of burn-outPaper held too close to heatWrinkled from within
Haiku:The shuffle and dealOf life turns not on a cardBut on the dealer
Haiku:The lowering moon...Futilely resists the dawn...Fading in the sky...
Haiku:The shuffle and dealOf life turns not on a cardBut on the dealer
Haiku:These things exist in...Sovereign kingdoms in my mind...With no trade treaties...
Haiku:The thousand yard stareBrought back from places one shouldNever revisit
Haiku:The true leaders roleMinimize the sacrificePlanning and not luck
Haiku:Thin is the veneer...Coating our civilized selves...In football season...
Haiku:Theseus agreesDescribing the labyrinth
Is the easy part
Haiku:They always call itCoincidence when God acts
Anonymously
Haiku:Threat of violenceImplicit in their staring
Thumping down the streetHaiku:Things I could have been...Were not strangers to ourselves...Only try to be...
Haiku:Things that are not trueFind easier acceptanceThan the humble truth
Haiku:Through camera's lens...Visions of wonders unknown...Dance before my eyes...
Haiku:Threat of violenceImplicit in staring eyesBottle hits the street
Haiku:Three groups get you killedPencil-pushers, amateursAnd idealists
Haiku:Time is a river...Let the current pass me by...Live upon its banks...
Haiku:Thunder crashes loud
Causing cries of deep dismayIdol on the tube
Haiku:Thunder overhead
Niche of weather-sculptured rockShelter for rabbits
Haiku:Tiptoeing around
Black hole of uncertaintyAfraid to peer in
Haiku:Tiny backwoods bar...Men of sour disposition...Friendlier than girls...
Haiku:Tiny whirls of dustA languid breeze had uncoiledCurling through the streets
Haiku:To go home and face...Nebuchadnezzars furnace...Within or without...
Haiku:To get out of bedMust believe in destinyOne that is golden
Haiku:To get through morningAspirin, Vitamin BAnd mouth spray
Haiku:Todays modern girlsSeem so damned self-reliantEqual not better
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Haiku:Today and future...Meet at the midnight divide...Transfer of power...
Haiku:Today was his dayPerfecta and quinellaAt Hialeah
Haiku:Too-cute sailor-suits...Giggling children pass by...On the way to school...
Haiku:Toiler in the nightTrying to remember ifBlack can go on red
Haiku:Too long memoriesGrant mercy without pardonHardest to forgive
Haiku:Trapped inside my groin...A greater brain than Hawking's...One amidst billions...
Haiku:Torn and threadbare laughEven though the house had wonFrayed, but not afraid
Haiku:Tortoiseshell glassesPants three inches from their shoesWeed-whacker haircuts
Haiku:Trimmed into flame specks...Lowering suns crimson rays...Votives in garden...
Haiku:Traveling at night...Things I have not done in life...Commonplace to me...
Haiku:Tree-filtered sunlightTurns the leaves to golds and greensLike emerald rings
Haiku:Trying to work fastYet not so fast I screw upDeliberate speed
Haiku:Trying to light upWith hands suddenly shaky
Still half in my dream
Haiku:Trying to stave offMadness of desperation
By writing haiku
Haiku:Twisted without strain...Suppleness of silk ribbon...
Artistic dancer...Haiku:Turning the sky to...Inverted sky-blue cauldron...Pressure-cooking sweat...
Haiku:Twenty-somethings boastMore aspiration than realHoping for magic
Haiku:Typical subjectsPolls, policies, patronageWashingtons Three Ps
Haiku:Twisting in his sleepRed-black geysers of fire burstShrapnel of his dreams
Haiku:Two things to treasureA decent cup of coffeeAnd a decent wife
Haiku:Under kitchen door...Thinnest breath of a warm draft...Carries yeasty scents...
Haiku:Ugly isn't fair...
People tend to think the best...of those beauty-blessed...
Haiku:Unblinking stars start
To darken, brighten, darkenUnseen cirrus clouds
Haiku:Unfinished filing...
A tsunami building its height...Silent and deadly...
Haiku:Unexplained angerSome secret savage splinterFlamed to infection
Haiku:Unexpressed angerUlcerates the work outputLike a running sore
Haiku:Unpalatable...Some pictures hurt the eyes like...Curse offends the tongue...
Haiku:Unfocused, adrift...Like a wandering shade, I'd...Let go of this world...
Haiku:Unfortunate factInept at spotting mistruthsWorse at telling them
Haiku:Unwanted image...Keeps rising like a dark sun...What I should have done...
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Haiku:UnrhythmicallyLike eight-cylinder engineUsing random five
Haiku:Unusual friendsHad neither same historiesNor common origins
Haiku:Vainly attemptedTo cover a thinning scalpWith old baseball cap
Haiku:Usual choicesThe improbable versusThe most unlikely
Haiku:Utter lightlessness...Burnt-out cinders of dead stars...Unblemished blackness...
Haiku:Virtuous womanI see your hands in the dirtLifting others up
Haiku:Video arcade...Endless kingdom of wonder...Children stand wide-eyed...
Haiku:Violent red skyThe brush of God tints to goldPainting cross the sky
Haiku:Walked upon the moon...Sailed a sea long since vanished...History Channel...
Haiku:Voices sounding like...Carnival barkers with strep...Heavy metal band...
Haiku:Waking fever-wetThe reflections of a dreamClinging to your mind
Haiku:Watching as my handsLike synchronized spidersWrestle for the wheel
Haiku:Walking for my health...Eyes peeled for groups of Homies...
Less well-intentioned...
Haiku:Walking side-by-sideThe clopping of a Clydesdale
And her trotters clip
Haiku:Waving like a handPeachtree limb moves out of synch
Flash of blue feathersHaiku:Watching the clock spinSeconds turn to centuriesWaiting to see you
Haiku:Watchmen on the walls...Homes and kin so far away...Got MY T-shirt, too...
Haiku:Way up on the hillBugling elks challenge echoesAcross brushy slopes
Haiku:Waving pampas grassLike plumed tails of proud horsesCorrals attention
Haiku:Way out in the grove...Ancient Ford rides concrete blocks...To rust and ruin...
Haiku:We may lack richesBut what lies in our hearts isThe greatest fortune
Haiku:We all have a role...
Part of the great mystery...Learning where we fit...
Haiku:We all live our lives...
Twixt transcendance and terror...Our daily tightrope...
Haiku:We who must go on
In the name of those who fellPermit ourselves hope
Haiku:We tend to exist...In parallel dimensions...Rarely intersect...
Haiku:We were foolish thenConvinced we knew the futureInvulnerable
Haiku:Weird? How weird am I?...Meter to measure weirdness...Melts under my tongue...
Haiku:Weathered canvas tarpThreadbare, with grommets missingForms a kitten nest
Haiku:Weight fell on my eyes...So heavy it tilted head...Lunch-induced coma...
Haiku:What degree of grace...When street bikers volunteer...To build a new church?...
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Haiku:Were I to be watchedA rational observerWould find no new sin
Haiku:We're the sum totalOf what we have done and beenGood and bad alike
Haiku:What you once would beRight below mirror surfaceFloating just beneath
Haiku:What I should have done...Drown insistent image in...Swamp of memory...
Haiku:What worlds do we see...As we journey in our sleep?Other planes of life?
Haiku:When I see these eyesI hear a childs laughterEcho in my heart
Haiku:When folks think youre niceHave to act accordinglyNot so, S.O.B
Haiku:When I closed my eyesBreakers brushed across a beachIn a coral cove
Haiku:When we are kicked down...Insincere friends gossiping...Feed upon despair...
Haiku:When she looks at youEternal depth in her eyesYou become a child
Haiku:When the smoke has goneGunfire's bitter pungencyLeaving grief behind
Haiku:When you are in loveEverything you do IS loveShown in a new way
Haiku:When we have it made...Worm in apple of the heart...
Makes us doubt our luck...
Haiku:When you are in love,All the things you do are love...
Shown in a new way...
Haiku:Whether go to bed...Risking dreams of mad demons...
Or stay up with one...Haiku:When you realizeWhat a lonely world it isFuture looks scary
Haiku:Where rebel soldiersClad in ragged uniformsHide at edge of sight
Haiku:Whispers of heartbreak...Nodding at friends I once knew...Now only figures...
Haiku:Whining down asphaltCar of teenage girls rolls byNoisily wrong gear
Haiku:Whipping past my faceSwallow dives pursuing bugsNo collisions, please!...
Haiku:White clapboard house...Periwinkle blue shutters...Flash of memories...
Haiku:Whistling like a flute...
Melancholy desert wind...Calls up dust devil...
Haiku:White as sun-bleached bone...
Whiter than flour in a cup...Bright Shasta daisy...
Haiku:Why does it hurt so?...
I had not asked to be born...Only to be loved...
Haiku:Who could speak the wordsNow that the Fire God was dead?...New crisis of faith
Haiku:Who says things cant change?...Eagles wing bends will of windTo rise above it
Haiku:Wind runs up mountainsClouds quickly torn into ragsAnd then flung away
Haiku:Wind beneath my wingsPeople who know me quite wellLike me anyway
Haiku:Wind like drunken mobWhistling, hooting, raspingDrifting, eddying
Haiku:Wind-waved limbs break up...Undulant curtains of light...Spangles of sunshine...
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Haiku:Wind rushing through pinesA thousand hissing voicesDevils in the wind
Haiku:Wind-broken tree droopsPaying obeisance toLaw of gravity
Haiku:With a demons cryFilled with voices of chaosWind lashes shadows
Haiku:Wise and yet naive...Diploma brings new freedom...Brains and innocence...
Haiku:Wishing that I were...More persuasive in my faith...Oh, the friends I'd save...
Haiku:With my long-lived genes,Is sixty years still too young...For mid-life crisis?
Haiku:With a rushing soundEvening breeze comes off the beachNature's long exhale
Haiku:With flick of the wrist...Daily News flips through the air...Landing with soft thwop...
Haiku:Wonder if I'm mad...But, if I say No, I'm...Totally bugshit...
Haiku:With uncanny skill...Appliances don't break down...Until kick-off time...
Haiku:Without your friendshipLife has suddenly gone dryThirsty in my heart
Haiku:Working in a spaceOthers consider commonOrderly mind hurts
Haiku:Wondered if crazyI am totally bugshit!
Issue resolved
Haiku:Words that sour the tongue...Storm flashes in fevered eyes...
Thunder tsunamis...
Haiku:Would it be so badTo live in a museum
Touching history?...Haiku:Working under car...Exhalations of sour smoke...Not the car - from me!...
Haiku:Worry at edgesLike tongue at a broken toothNervous confidence
Haiku:Writing isn't pain...Psychic chemotherapy...Removes soul tumors...
Haiku:Wrapping themselves in...Cocoon of indifference...License bureau clerks...
Haiku:Wringing their hands orCalling the A.C.L.ULiberal pastimes
Haiku:You both get dirtyWhen you wrestle with a pigThe pig enjoys it
Haiku:Yards of Versace
Darted, tied and fitted wellJust to hide a thong?...
Haiku:Yellow ball furnace...
Boiling some blue from the sky...Leaving it faded...
Haiku:Youve got to move on
Elvis is there or hes notBut no time to look
Haiku:You might say we have...Turbulent relationship...Like gale and windstorm...
Haiku:You say I don't care...Rip my heart from bleeding flesh...See the anguish there?
Haiku:Your true age insideAn inescapable truthUnhidden from you
Haiku:Your presumption isYou have got the right to sayWhatever you wish
Haiku:Guarantee intrigueWith hinted things left unsaidAnd a half a wink
Haiku:Knows no boundariesThe world is his to exploreOr his to exploit
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Haiku:Trying to hide theirNasty improprietyWith a veil of lies
Haiku:Offices housed inAn imposing brick GeorgianMy wallet cringes
Haiku:The management mixBlithering idiots andIntellectuals
Haiku:Tiny in personPossessed an infectious grinA virulent imp
Haiku:Never forgottenThe rigorous tutelageBible-reading Mom
Haiku:Looked at my garageA daunting propositionFourteen years of junk
Haiku:A woman possessedFrenetically movingKids get out at three
Haiku:Sleazy profiteersBidding low but getting wellOn improved designs
Haiku:Some would ridiculeHis unorthodox lifestyleBut it worked for him
Haiku:A crowd is scaryFurious or euphoricChange in a heartbeat
Haiku:Women watched him passAs did some envious menShirt over shoulder
Haiku:My heated outburstWas nearer the truth than notInstantly sorry
Haiku:A bibliophileOf just modest addictionOnly one book bag
Haiku:Dirty little liesIndiscreetly vented byDrunk executive
Haiku:Skills, nerve and accessThe qualities of gem thievesAnd politicians
Haiku:Grille lights and sirenKind of useless effort onCrown Victoria
Haiku:Seeking a measureOf personal redemptionFixing own screw-ups
Haiku:Luminous black eyesFramed in a madonna faceIn refugee camp
Haiku:Having once more foiledPotential apocalypseTime to go to lunch
Haiku:Had to spend some timeWith the rich and obnoxiousEnjoy PEOPLE now
Haiku:Munitions trainingA lethal kindergartenWith no urge to fail
Haiku:Epic crusadersAgainst the truth and the lightJihadi lawyers
Haiku:He appeared quite madRagged clothes and shopping cartTill you saw his eyes
Haiku:Simple thank-you cardTruly appreciatedArtistry at life
Haiku:A city filled withMonuments and mockeriesHard part: which is which?...
Haiku:Washington disease?...UnceremoniouslyRetired for ill health
Haiku:Rear-echelon typesSat safely behind your desksMy ass on the line
Haiku:Perhaps I am moreComplicated piece of workThan they bargained for
Haiku:Valley fills with hazeThe smoke of supper cookingCoal dust from the mines
Haiku:A good ideaOverly-complicatedBy the desk jockies
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Haiku:Career seat warmerNever took a risk besidesLeftover coffee
Haiku:Got to di-di, manMore new neighbors every dayIts time to move on
Haiku:Self-deprecatingI figured I should alwaysBeat them to the punch
Haiku:Village loses faceStucco and plaster nightmareSaving energy
Haiku:Almost as if stagedEach of them had a fixed roleHe'd played many times
Haiku:Dante's ninth circleHas a chair reserved for meBottom of the ninth
Haiku:The broken mufflersEchoing hollowly fromPotholes in the streets
Haiku:As white as meringueHis thick hair looks trowelled onAnd then baked in place
Haiku:Not mean-spiritedBut take care of businessOr you die laughing
Haiku:RationalizingHow one cherry pie each monthWont harm my diet
Haiku:Standard young mans dreamA two-bedroom stucco houseWith three cars in front
Haiku:Sun broken and redCloud creases across its faceAs if tired of day
Haiku:A nervous tic, likeBee buzzing around his eyeBetrays inner fears
Haiku:Yes, shes pretty butYou never want to meet upWith her BIG brothers
Haiku:Might have to blow DodgeShe said shed heard about meAND accepted date
Haiku:Slightly out of phaseLike formal dress on a pigMe wearing a thong?...
Haiku:Sign your friend won bigPolyester and loafersAnd not booted jeans
Haiku:Exists in us allBelly laughs and gentle heartsIf we but seek them
Haiku:Face netted with linesThe sea has impressed on himThe mark of his trade
Haiku:That war hero shitDoesnt buy box of PampersIf you should get home
Haiku:Treadmills full of girlsHard-looking as ceramicWith baked-on finish
Haiku:Whitened-cheekbone skinSeems too tight for his bodyNotched up by anger
Haiku:Her smile magicalFilled with the delighted joyOnly children know
Haiku:Cold winter moonlightSuddenly became surrealGreen curtain in sky
Haiku:Wind gust tumblingNewspaper past iron gateNot on entrance list
Haiku:Cracking tired smileIn weary confirmationBasket bottom bare
Haiku:Open door to streetRush of heated air filled withCarbon monoxide
Haiku:From his tractor seatPinching glare out of his eyesPraying oer his fields
Haiku:Eyes of smoky greenVeiled with smoldering fireSeemed the mirror shook
Haiku:Car lights flowing downWide bend in an expresswayFlashing through my view
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Haiku:Guy in the mirrorLooking older than he wasSmiling back at him
Haiku:You can tell she triedDeal with the devil and lostShes dating my friend
Haiku:Squeezing the grease outWincing in the flare of smokeOver backyard grill
Haiku:Bartender listensWashing mugs in old tin sinkDeciding cut-offs
Haiku:Clad in DeBeers bestHer blue-collar attitudesCame out when she drank
Haiku:Tied to win bottleNeed became my personaIn vino, lostness
Haiku:Not just disrespectIt's a form of arroganceWhen you name others
Haiku:Public radioLess complicated erasStill available
Haiku:My grandiose wordsSounded foolish when I spokeLike teenage bragging
Haiku:Retreating againBottle with a chrome nippleBecame his lifeline
Haiku:Comic innocenceDachshund dives beneath the couchFind imagined cat
Haiku:Faces of limestoneWind-sculpted place in desertLike alien gods
Haiku:Would you buy a car?...No amount of rhetoricEases oily feel
Haiku:Cased like a sausagePeroxided and perfumedTragic grasp for youth
Haiku:Flaming sky softensPink of flamingo's wingFlying into night
Haiku:Once a vibrant tanBleached color of a biscuitIn stucco ghetto
Haiku:Marked by privationI was ready to partyOr flee at a blink
Haiku:Must have caught me atAn irritable momentSorry if I snapped
Haiku:Blue and full of lightThe sun, unrisen, still fillsMorning with delight
Haiku:White-painted plank fenceNothing fancy, but for meIt lined out my space
Haiku:Born to politicsAll grins and loquaciousnessSnap off like a light
Haiku:Spanish ironworkScrolls and little curlicuesUseful, but fancy
Haiku:Marginal peopleUnnoticed, edge-of-your-sightTheir stories untold
Haiku:Hummer limousineSeems absurd and grandioseA land battleship
Haiku:Clipped with garden shearsBlow-dried with a propAn old bush pilot
Haiku:Soft and harmless glowPistol flare dying in mistOutposts quiet end
Haiku:He was entitledHad paid more dues than I hadLet him open brawl
Haiku:A feral adversaryBare knuckles, all-or-nothingImplacable foe
Haiku:A bar-room brawlerThe knuckles half-mooned with scarsNext to the pool cues
Haiku:Unforgiven sinsLike blood spatter on the soulNot easy to cleanse
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Haiku:Venus in blue jeansSea shell now a wave riderChatting on cell phone
Haiku:Canopy of oaksStretching all along the driveAn old money thing
Haiku:They had it so roughSailing down into the KeysWhen kingfish running
Haiku:The air smelled like saltAnd concrete when first rain hitsA nose-burning smell
Haiku:Hot smell of the streetBurns my nose as door swings wideAsphalt, oil and fumes
Haiku:Mist gray and swirlingThick and damp as wet cottonClinging like cold sweat
Haiku:Everything todayExtremely copaceticMoving as on rails
Haiku:Still the violentChaotic, immature manSome women took home
Haiku:Soft gray-green outlineStartling solidityTank instead of bush
Haiku:Grandpa was greatSplashing through rainwater poolsChasing behind her
Haiku:All of my darned lifeBeen a special kind of foolWhere beauty concerned
Haiku:Standing on the dockTranslucence of green JelloSeemed to go down miles
Haiku:Children carry withA warm fragrance like flowersSmell of purity
Haiku:Seems that I shall soonLose the sunlight in my lifeAnd its all my fault
Haiku:Just an aging foolTrying to regain lost youth?...Is there still magic?...
Haiku:I knew that I wouldDrown in luminositySee her eyes again
Haiku:His serenityBorn of inner convictionA potent weapon
Haiku:Hunting through hotelIn pastel-colored reachesFound him on the phone
Haiku:Summer hailstones rangLike coins bouncing on gold plateOn the tin-roofed shed
Haiku:Smarting with her slapHis face felt hot and swollenAs though stung by bees
Haiku:He had discoveredThe secret of sanityAll were somehow mad
Haiku:Classic tea and sconesAt linen-covered tableNot bad for beach kid
Haiku:Turns and walks awayMouth bitter with aftertasteOf hot words unsaid
Haiku:Ignorant rednecksGreatest fear and enemyKnowledge of themselves
Haiku:All day at keyboardHands thick and stiff and uselessFeel the muscles twitch
Haiku:Bringing back to mindA story of ancient godsFlute plays in canyon
Haiku:Spending his eveningsKeeping the gargoyles awayOne drink at a time
Haiku:Heavy-bellied cloudsThe color of scorched pewterClimbed above the peaks
Haiku:Knew he was dirtyLike touch of a soiled handAll we need is proof
Haiku:Home to me becomesForeign and disconnectedAs if intruding
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Haiku:Soldiers developSame false sense of confidenceSurviving battle
Haiku:Lighting flash outsideCaught inside a cobalt glowFades slower than light
Haiku:One twitch of the wheelWas roller-skating on icePraying for soft end
Haiku:Parting purple cloudsFringed with violent yellowsRed sun fills blue hole
Haiku:Unfairly accusedBitterness overcame meNo longer a lamb
Haiku:Transforming by theMetaphysics of natureTree into shelter
Haiku:Smother-and-rejectNever knowing which would beThe lead-off that day
Haiku:Desert yucca forms..A shadow figure capped withMoonlight silvered spikes
Haiku:In predawn shadowsListening to the quiet voiceOf an absent friend
Haiku:Tumbled in their bedsTousled hair and twisted sheetsSleeps soft carelessness
Haiku:A small grove of treesSingle steeple, single streetA rural enclave
Haiku:Lightning flash outsideCaught inside a cobalt glowFades slower than light
Haiku:Soldiers developSame false sense of confidence
Surviving battle
Haiku:Frantic energyBarks and yaps around my legsMe or groceries?...
Haiku:Heavy-bellied cloudsThe color of scorched pewter
Climbed above the peaksHaiku:Bringing back to mindA story of ancient godsFlute plays in canyon
Haiku:Knew he was dirtyLike touch of soiled handAll we need is proof
Haiku:Navajo sayingEven still wind has a voiceIf you will hear it
Haiku:Spending his eveningsKeeping the gargoyles awayOne drink at a time
Haiku:Home to me becomesForeign and disconnectedAs if intruding
Haiku:On a love dietJust enough to maintain lifeJust one kiss per day
Haiku:Waking, strugglingWith incipient panicThree A.M. phone call
Haiku:Her beauty keeps meStill focused or fixatedWhile her brains ticking
Haiku:Bedeviled capriceMade him buy a CadillacAs OPEC went up
Haiku:Wakened twice from napTact developing fissuresBarking into phone
Haiku:Scintilla of hopeTiny as a bankers heartSparks me to stay on
Haiku:Seemed awful quietDevoid of relationshipsCloset romeo
Haiku:Ash-tree skeletonsLike specters line the skylineOf wintered prairie
Haiku:Wind of mob voicesHowling drunkenly through streetsCursing corners
Haiku:Trying to get homeThe afterglow of sunsetFilling pinkish snow
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Haiku:I remember backFriends and I on county roadsRooster-tailing dust
Haiku:Dim, wind-twisted shapesRemnants of a farmers groveFrom tornado past
Haiku:Shiny yellow carBut lined with grayish mouse furA discordant clash
Haiku:Blue shadows stripingYellow-gray of autumn grassPleasant prairie grove
Haiku:Patternless chaosWrenches amidst scattered boltsSon under the car
Haiku:Typical bossesActions without any causePoltergeist-possessed?
Haiku:Borrowing sunsetRose and pink caliche flatsDress up for the night
Haiku:IncongruitiesStand on grassy prairie atGeronimos grave
Haiku:Neighbor fixing carAn obbligato mixtureOf smoke and curses
Haiku:Sudden twitching ofBushy yellow chamisoRabbit or a rat
Haiku:Mad Miss Meg againShrieking curses at the windWrestling shopping cart
Haiku:Shallow arroyoFilled with loamy earthPrairie dog palace
Haiku:A rusty windmillGreaselessly grinding awayPumping only dust
Haiku:Whipping and dyingDirectionless wind sniffingFor leaks in my clothes
Haiku:Had been home to himNow only cold and hostileShelter without love
Haiku:A worthy challengePacking for a weeks visitIn one carry-on
Haiku:Quick, inquisitiveImpatient intelligenceLocked in a poodle
Haiku:He fought a long fightBut at last, as Zunis sayCompleted his path
Haiku:Pourers and swizzlesFelonious clienteleHave stolen the spoons
Haiku:Leaving cap at homeUnhealthy white man pallorSlowly catching tan
Haiku:Couldnt really sayHeard he might be the victimOf vaguish rumors
Haiku:No trend-setters, weA very exclusive clubLost, lame and lazy
Haiku:Stark against the skySoftened palette of eveningOutlined broken cliffs
Haiku:Heavy, rolling swellsSensing the nearing beach, riseTip-toed to see it...
Haiku:I handle the tasksThat actually matterLike coffee and pay
Complete as of 9 Oct 07