Sour Grapes

rainy geese rising
cumbersome, flustered, singing
fox slyly giggles

Haiku Bones #3: regret

Funny how even animals will apparently show disappointment with seemingly odd behaviour. They do say that laughter is an interrupted defense mechanism...

Hot Inner Tube!

Grin, bicycle soul!
Deliberately hit leaves!
Warm asphalt swishes!

WANDERLUST #96 meme

Thinking of summer rides on my balloon-tire bicycle is happiness alright.

Tramp A-Sea

eager lucid cool,
cooks grumbling, ocean mewling,
tramp steamer travel!

One Single Impression wanderlust

This prompt got my travel planning stoked. Nothing like a tiny commercial steamer out of Liverpool kitted out with a few first-class cabins. Such congenial people you meet on this eccentric mode of travel. Dress for dinner, yes, but posh snobbery, no!

Wandernot

Wash out the nightmare,
Traipses of fluttering hell.
Lukewarm hotel tea.

One Single Impression wanderlust

"Wanderlust doth not have a hold of my puny vitals, for its terrors consume me." - Southwald

Jag

Cows wander grumbling.
Pure, kindhearted, sagging clouds.
Rippling, slowly, pale.

Haiku Bones prompt: regret

No, I am not a vegetarian, and even that is killing complex living systems - but I do regret the innate cruelty of the "circle of life" sometimes.

Afield

lovely rapid crow
tall horses push through the drifts
overcoat feels rough

One Single Impression: wanderlust

Freethinker

humble, feeble light·
cathedral acquiesces·
incongruent smile.

Haiku Bones prompt is regret

Memory

snowy bird gusting,
puddle clouds slide dimly back.
rain in sour tide pool.

Haiku Bones prompt #3 regret

Liriodendron

resplendent, rusty ·
copious bumblebee boughs ·
kneel singing, praying ·

For Haiku Bones I image the tulip tree as a temple

Farm Morn

gray solemn princes·
hogs rattling their human teeth·
smiling pale mist parts·

For Haiku Bones

They say that hog teeth are the closest to humans in the animal world. What princely animals.

Solstice

planet uncovers
replying redwood poses, gnarled
mountaintop pulsates

Haiku Bones prompt fleeting

Morning

crestfallen jay squawks
greedily, frosty deer huff
moaning noble oaks

Inspired by One Single Impression word junction

Here in my small yard I peer out my unwashed kitchen window and witness the grand junction of trees and sky, animals disturbing each other, or are they passing the news? and the hope of a clean new beginning.

Interface

Road, land, trees, clouds, sky
Ruts pass through withered grass tops
It can not see it

Thanks to Jeeves who posted "junction" as the prompt at One Single Impression

Goner

Orb of dry Swiss Miss powder
Inexplicably hovering on the thin liquid
POP! obey the law

The prompt word over at Haiku Bones is fleeting

Love the way this happens sometimes, a tiny bleb of dry powder skitters along in the mug, pushing aside whorls of steam like a tiny buoy in a fog. And then it's gone.

Brekky

50p. gets you
a fresh doughnut, a coffee
a quiet moment

Haiku Bones word for the week is "fleeting". And my morning breakfast at the bar parlor of the Dalesman is such a fleeting respite. Don't know what I'd do without it :-)

Glimpse

Dapple in Denmark;
Not one who's easy to hide !
Now I'll eat my hat ?

These magical glimpses of figure-ground illusion are so frequent and fleeting - which happens to be the Haiku Bones Prompt!!

Twins

Yeah I see it too.
A second shadowy moon!
Oh, it's just a cloud.

fleeting is the prompt for the week at Haiku Bones and junction at OSI. This haiku Twins works for both I think.

Seeing things wrongly, even if just for an instant is a great visual pleasure isn't it?

Creation

bubbles in bubbles
falling free universes
When did you snap this?

Haiku Bones prompt 2: fleeting

Dan Brown

What's The Lost Symbol?
Circumpunct's Symbol's symbol.
Just like Haddock's Eyes...

A pal lent me a nice fresh hardcover copy of Mister Da Vinci Code's latest thriller - a sort of lower-middle-brow Umberto Ecco book. I carefully removed the unspotted dust-jacket to the top of my TV armoire. Then I slipped a brown paper cover on. No, not to hide my shame, but to keep the book spotless and for a place to jot notes. Oh yes, the real symbol is revealed on the last page, and in turn it is a symbol for yet another symbol. Nice. I am going back to reread the White Knight's story in Alice, as referenced in the haiku ^__^

Small Play

Ten or eleven
Dirty Keds on broken glass
Conspiring fools

My 1st post for the new Haiku Bones meme game: wistful

Churchyard

Red rooves yellow wall
Green meadow slanting upward
No birds in the air

Prompt Haiku Bones N° 1 WISTFUL

Had I but started

Had I but started
Jemmy'd have two mittens now
Ha! Napoleon!

Haiku Bones prompt of the week - wistful

My happy gun

It haunts me sporadically
That single shot derringer cap pistol
Lost with childhood

Haiku Bones prompt 1: wistful

Billiards

Chimney glass dimmed with soot
Creaking tittering as the mantle shivers
Primeval atoms yearn for flight

Haiku Bones prompt 1: wistful

I love the idea of ancient trapped molecules in kerosene - created by the ur-Sun stabbing into ancient oceans and plants. Then bouncing around in a kerosene lamp flame, liberated and giving light on a windy coastal night.

Hoary Pane

Well see it yourself
It's a fair frosting tonight
An' I'm wait abed

Wheesht

Seep down into down
Tongue-clicking tasteless water
Laundry's stiff with chalk

fathomless

Club of Rome bigots;
Cling joyously to our doom:
Malthus is still dead

One Single Impression: Prompt 76: Ocean

I'd say we've got oceans of breathing room:

Deliver to me, dripping wet on the mat, the 100 billion humans who have ever lived in the last 50,000 years.

And now weigh up all the dinosaurs which ever lived over a quarter billion years (that's 5,000 times longer by the way).

Hyperspectral

It must've been Mies?
Nah, it's more Philip Johnson:
Mondrian x Pei

One Single Impression: Prompt 75: Windows

It's a mysterious 50 foot tower behind St. Mary's 06830. 1960-ish. Brown brick dead walls North and South. And between, vertiginous titanium girders with glass sheets like a Brobdingnagian collection of saturated theater gels.

Diner

Bacon's soft fragance;
Fresh coffee, hot rye toast, eggs:
Sun-warmed newspaper

One Single Impression: Prompt 74: Fragrance

Friends

Slush drools mute floorboards:
Sunday dreads Sam's addled tongues;
Our Clerk scowls grimly

One Single Impression: Prompt 73: Inner Voice

Lipchitz

Towards a New World:
bronze banner snaps silently;
rain stipples pebbles

One Single Impression: Prompt 72: Thinking

Prell

actinic green flares;
and with a sucking blorp's gone;
gristmill bather swears

One Single Impression: Prompt 71: The Stranger

sunshower

"Devil's gittin' hitched",
great-grandma grins to herself;
we keep picking peas

One Single Impression: Prompt 70: Blue Rain

Buddhabread

fuzzy snowman sprawls;
full whorled Julia atlas:
Gautama declines

One Single Impression: Prompt 69: Assimilation

teacher

dime store turtle basks;
plastic palm tree counts the hours:
greasy ground meat waits

One Single Impression: Prompt 68: Walls

yearning

so bewildering;
thruway wasteland cuts my street:
ghostly lives hiss by

One Single Impression: Prompt 67: Intersections

treachery

un noeud complexe;
une vieille, bizarre, jaloux roi:
tricheur ou honnête ?
* * *
a difficult knot;
an old, bizzare, jealous king:
cheater or honest?

One Single Impression: Prompt 66: Denouement

I always thought that Alexander the Great cheated when he cut the knot of that madman king Gordius_!_

dropped

a mutt's mutt - Pup-Pup
panting mid smeary litter:
those were the good sheets

One Single Impression: Prompt 65: Dropped

acceptance

tidemark sand castle;
moats, walls, shells, seaweed fences:
endure and submit

One Single Impression: Prompt 64: Tolerance

Gurga

Haiku's poverty,
Oddness, lack, and tang are strengths:
Contrary suchness.

Haiku: A Poet's Guide

Евгений

mothers are leaving;
gray armies bleaching into light:
dread is a strange book

One Single Impression: Prompt 63: What's It Like?

e-book

in the bus stop queue
faint mist gathers; bends pixels;
still craving print's touch


NY Times: Will Plastic Logic Save Newspapers

One Single Impression: Prompt 62: Tactile

form

morpheme and sentence
guard its flanks, dripping meaning:
don't look too closely!
One Single Impression: Prompt 61: Word

plain

try and write this way:
all words (not names) with one sound.
at times, less is less.

One Single Impression: prompt 60 - One Word

The book "Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable", started my game of writing this way (excepting proper names). The goal of these One Syllable titles was "[books] adapted to the use of the
youngest readers". But in practice, these books are tough going for children. It makes a nice word game, especially if you add the rule that the result must read naturally.

breathless

uncle wheezed "try some,"
"a scant dram of usquebaugh":
cause follows effect

One Single Impression #59: Live Water

My first impression of whisky was more firewater than Live Water.

hypervigilance

nano-fog settles
each sigh heard, stored, analyzed:
true security
One Single Impression: Listening

Laurie's perfect moment at April Wine inspired me to envision a scifi moment of perfect Hell, misconceived as total freedom.

punk

drag the spice sweet tang
through bamboo joss stick fiber:
eightfold minus one

One Single Impression: Smoke

Levittown

Quivering billow of sun
Reflects from picture window:
Sidewalk aged yellow.

One Single Impression: Equals

boneyard

obelisk towers
on its plinth with no mortar:
faint nausea stirs…

One Single Impression: Farewells

duality

circus elephants
brumously march through my house:
what the hell, de Broglie?

One Single Impression: Fork in the Road

boathouse

rainbow soap bubbles,
lawn's captives, reflect french doors:
reeds hedge the peach moon

One Single Impression: Circles

pagoda

iron lantern flares -
fireflies slowly blink hello:
singed violet skies


One Single Impression: Twilight

hovering

the room is turned twice;
or's there a half turn also?
such a poor liar


One Single Impression: Prompt 51: Spectral

~ for me spectral conjured a childhood game ~ imagining floating up in the air from bed ~ then spinning the room ~ but with a child's twist of playful self-delusion ~ so that there would be a double shock on peeking !¡! ~

flowing

thumbnail's sun jewels
jitter with each heartbeat:
indra's dust devils

One Single Impression: Movement

~ this week's prompt is movement ~ try this and see if it works for you ~ view your plain thumbnail up close and out of focus in bright sunlight ~ you will see rainbow-speckled orbs hovering just above the surface ~ and as your pulse beats they judder and swirl like tiny whirlwinds ~

stalingrad

mother motherland
billows across the hilltop;
flasks crack underfoot

One Single Impression: If Only I Had Time

brownie

bakelite kodak
found in a summer house drawer;
pale child drips ice cream

One Single Impression: Fading Memories

cicada

empty eye shields glint;
crisp shell soaking in singing:
one fat raindrop falls

One Single Impression: A Summer's Day

harvest

chickadees peck fat
flayed deer hangs in farmyard tree:
hieronymus smile

One Single Impression: skin