INSOMNIA HAIKU 11

night food / morning crumbs

legs & arms 

are amps & volts

frozen river time

HAIKUS

MOVIE HAIKU #1

one car chase

french connection style

killed my nasa chances

MOVIE HAIKU #2


robert duval

saves the picture

suck it he says

punch ups in the rain

MOVIE HAIKU #3

her smile was

a stretched paint of thanks

his proposal hung

a tumbleweed away

after their glasnost wind

photo Widescreen Rain from the Dagenham Archive

 

FRIDAY O CLOCK HAIKU

good book in bath

tells me things i know 

we
kidnapped evicted veg


~


white cat on back step

sleeps sat up

cold air comes inside

foodcrumbles.com

TREE HAIKU

winter trees strip 
beautiful 

rooted
in the cold clay

the monkfish strains at sea

from huffingtonpost.com

PICASA MADRIGALS, ILL & DONT FLUSH

1.

it would be easier

to get well

if i wasnt ill

2.

soviet era tranqs

monitor

17 lines

of freeze dried coffee

haiku falls out -

dont flush

MACEDONIA 2 / HAIKU

i wrote a petal

called macedonia

tho
i
flower
been

from flowermeaning.com

COLD BABY DREAMS

       i dreamed 
   of a new years eve 
in a deep indigo forest

 me  ridgwell  a whole bunch of us writingslobs 

  unsettled and itching
  riding warm air updrafts 
into a rich 
        blue 
         cloudless night 

 drifting up almost close enough to the stars 
          to know 
      if theyre the worn holes in black velvet
  where the light 
      of a kind of lost heaven 
 filters thru 
  like a tease

we all have soft palm pod screens 
they roll open like vine leaves
     we share 
     haikus around 
     like wine

  or something similar to haikus - they were experimental 

          of course

           and 
  heavy on accurate punctuation

i struggled to finish mine
unable to find the right last line
     about the planets 
  being the dead used fossils 
    of the old gone gods

we found a baby up there

  a sky boy 

   he is 
like a magic boy we said
   he is 
like a superman boy we said

we all wrote it all down in our vine leaves
   heavy on accurate punctuation
   and we took turns 
  to keep him warm 
    inside our coats 
      as we flew him down 
        to get a foil blanket
          from 
          the 
  st johns ambulance team
     parked 
     by 
     the 
   tea and scone tent

in the clearing is a wedding
crowded and cramped and crazy
in the deep indigo forest night

someone has done something bad there
we felt the friction of it singe the air

 and all the trees outside the arguments
  are gold like cake decorations
 and the mad seagreen monsters
     with kind donkey eyes 
        are 
 lined up on wooden benches
    patiently waiting a turn
    at something
  we cant yet see

and us writingslobs are sky bound again
aiming for the sky holes again

     vainglorious 
   like a race in myth

pic from bolgernow.com

4th ANNIVERSARY GUEST BLOGGER 1 - LISA CRADDUCK

AUGUST 

by

 Lisa Cradduck

tourists of summer
aquaplane in slick flip-flops
moist cardigans steam

 from webmd.com

RAIN (sub haiku)

i wait on the sun
cos it rains on us sometimes
and
it takes time to dry

 from hellawella.com

KUBE 4

with eyes like Hubble

the 
writer
rides
days
hard
and

blows midnight around

from thecaferoyal.wordpress

KUBE POP 2

sweet 
baby 
riches

that life lame glorious

whispers promises

from watershed.co.uk

ILL POP

illness fascinates
the patient in his boredom
pills rattle like rain