Sympathy

Beware frozen hearts / and steely logical minds. / Feathered empathy / holds greater understanding / of wider meaning of Continue reading →

With Pen in Hand

Blind, deaf, I’ve shuffled / through daily routines without / pausing to process / my joys, pains, plans, memories. / Continue reading →

Endurance

Immeasurable / as an alien ocean / drowning blind pilgrims, / cancer’s reach is staggering. / Limbs exhausted from flailing, Continue reading →

Justice

Caged for a decade / within claustrophobic walls:  / when is my trial? / Presumed innocent and yet / punished Continue reading →

Loyal!

For this very special blog, I wanted to go onto Wikipaintings and find a cute (or at least very interesting) Continue reading →

Life Bulb

Some lives: arrow straight. / Others wander, jagged, yet / brilliantly burning. / And after that life has dimmed, / Continue reading →

Transformation

Once a ragged stone, / I am now glossy, gleaming, / having survived the / furious rapids of life. / Continue reading →

Cruel Crude

Innocent children, / stomachs swollen, eyes hollow. / Mothers raped, beaten. / Machete-crazed hyenas / mutilated, hacked limbs, heads.  / Continue reading →

Shhhhhh!

With hair disheveled, this friendly neighbor popped into our blogging neighborhood.  Her sudden appearance must be important – she looks Continue reading →

Birds: 2012

It’s simple – mostly – / to feed feathered lover – but –  / results may vary. // ←◊→ Because they mimic, / Continue reading →

Norway: 2011

Stealthy granite snake / slinks under cold gray mists to / drink from still jade lake.  // ←◊→ Red houses Continue reading →

Galaxies: 2010

Fishing from desert / humans cast their line into / ancient, fiery stream – / angling in the minnows but Continue reading →

Rituals: 2009

Pure, amid impure:  / faithful, not fearful, after / bathing in nectar. // ←◊→ First stroke, not so bad. / Continue reading →

Horses: 2008

Old as the mountains / we’ve galloped across men’s caves / and dignified crests.  / Memories pass to my son, Continue reading →

Follies: 2007

Between two towers / and over a castle’s eyes, / captured gargoyle screams. // ←◊→ Around central arch: / stones Continue reading →

Aurora: 2006

←◊→ Dancing irony. / Ribbons born in churning flame; / warmest rarely see. // ←◊→ Sun crouches, waiting:  / lion Continue reading →

pre•view (transitive verb \ˈprē-ˌvyü\)…

…to see beforehand; specifically: to view or to show in advance of public presentation.   First known use of preview:  1607.  [Merriam-Webster.] What do Continue reading →

Real Books Reign!

←◊→ How about you? Feel free to share. ←◊→ Update, June 3 2013:   Stephen King recognizes power of real, Continue reading →

Cloud Epic

Cloud Epic In sturdy canoes / we prayed with every stroke / for nature’s mercy. // ←◊→ No shields or Continue reading →

Mona Gertrude, Hank, and Kate

Wow!  This woman – whom I’ll call Gertrude – has a little bit of everything for sale.  Huge cabbages; cauliflower Continue reading →

Sexy Jeff Goldblum Badge

Sexy Jeff Goldblum Badge. ←◊→ Julie at Chicklitasaurus understands! If y’all like Jeff (and who wouldn’t?) grab a badge!   Continue reading →

Dragon Tag

Have you ever read Eyes of the Dragon by Steven King?  No?  Go get it!  Yes?   Let’s compare our visions, Continue reading →

Komainu

Pair in harmony / vowed from this day forward, and / ‘till death do we part. / Working in love, Continue reading →

Personal Favorites: Humptulips, Kinki, Tampon

“Ain’t seen ya before… / Where’d ya say yer from, pardner?” / “I’m from Humptulips … / and if ya Continue reading →

Body Parts: Penistone, Weiner, Titz

Once upon a time / penn just meant hill, nothing more. / Words seem to evolve. / My county, Franklin, Continue reading →

Insults: Ugley, Morón, Rottenegg

←◊→ Poor old guy, Ugga.  / Could have lived on hillside, streams … / chose woodland instead. // ←◊→ “Congrats!  Continue reading →

Fannies: Assawoman, Devil’s Arse, Butt Hole Road

One place on the trip / where distraction is vital / if you have a kid. / Kids forget cleaning Continue reading →

Shameless Behavior: Hooker, Intercourse, Bird-in-Hand

←◊→ Job application: / never reverse blanks for town / and occupation. // ←◊→ They love their baseball / and Continue reading →

Lukewarm: No Name, Normal, Dull

←◊→ Name?  Are you kidding? / We don’t need no stinking names. / Just move along, bud. // ←◊→ Over-achievers Continue reading →

Say WHAT? Un. Pro. Nounce. A. Ble.

←◊→ Fáskrúðsfjörður Hospital not bad / when my room has gorgeous view; / where’d you say I am?? // ←◊→ Continue reading →

Bodily Functions: Shitterton, Cape Foulwind, Puke

You can bet townsfolk / wish farmer left better name / by building outhouse. // ←◊→ “What an odd odor. Continue reading →

Disappointed Travelers: Boring, Disappointment, Why

Unless surname rocks, / should not name town after self. / “Charmed”, yes.  “Boring”, no. // ←◊→ Climbers, heads in hands, Continue reading →

The Dead Bird

Like matador’s cape / fluttering reflection teased / bird groom to charge door. // Delicate feet curl / while unseeing Continue reading →

Fantasy Haiku

Distant planet born / of nebula dust and hope sings with trees and stars. // ←◊→ Sunrise glances trees / Continue reading →

Meteora

Far from noisy hive, / lone ant, searching for eye-sweets, / scales living rock dome. // ←◊→ Following a scent Continue reading →

Black and White by Night

German band roars, stomps, / while delighted children prance: / grand equestrians. / One last dance under the lights; / Continue reading →

Choices!

What a predicament.  Caspar David Friedrich has painted a perfect dilemma.  One person (the boat) stuck between two rocks (two Continue reading →

The Diamond: Gems

←◊→ Exotic blossoms: / pastel agony born in / battle, hardship, sweat. // ←◊→ Void with blue-green floor: / memory, Continue reading →

Aquamarine: Gems

Water spirit trapped / in petrified sea column / is bold pretender, / promises travel and life / yet feeble Continue reading →

Mars!

Would you like to send your haiku to Mars?   Memoirs of a Dragon told me about this contest: “Send Continue reading →

The Amethyst: Gems

Elegant restraint. / Spires creep towards hearts’ desires: / wine dreams in ice feet. // ←◊→ Bring a chum or Continue reading →

The Garnet: Gems

Drum beats, blood and brown, / frame meandering puzzle:  / cryptic mosaic. // ←◊→ All of life repeats. / Neither Continue reading →

Turquoise: Gems

Starlit ocean waves/ surround the glorious prize:  / garland and collar. // ←◊→ Beautiful menace: / ice wave, suspended in Continue reading →

The Topaz: Gems

Like our heart, topaz / tastes the world around it and / chooses its color.  // ←◊→ Wasteland prospecting:  / Continue reading →

The Opal: Gems

Precious explosion: / secretive star blossoms into / hard supernova. // ←◊→ Persistent gold life, / undeterred by grumbling earth, Continue reading →

The Sapphire: Gems

Blue eye sizes me. / Key to budding ally’s heart? / Or sliver of ice? // ←◊→ Sly granite titan Continue reading →

The Peridot: Gems

←◊→ Newly budded leaves / boiled with sweet grass and honey / make summer candy. // ←◊→ Under lava sky, Continue reading →

The Ruby: Gems

Blazing dragon orb / assesses its proud captor: / fiery intrigue, caged.  // ←◊→ Under silent scrub, / rivers of Continue reading →

The Pearl: Gems

←◊→ Like the pearl, I am / smoother, brighter, more useful / after a life of / worry, pain and Continue reading →

The Emerald: Gems

Crystal forest drops / held captive in golden bonds: / hundreds of hours and / dozens of men have labored Continue reading →