through lattices/what glues raindrops (two tanka)
1.
through lattices
this condensation
of phrases
the glimpses we veil
in silence
2.
what glues
raindrops to foggy
windows?
consider my hand
slipping away
LYNX February 2013
Nine for NaHaiWriMo (copying, rewriting some old haiku of mine)
National Haiku Writing Month (NaHaiWriMo)–that’s what’s going on. I don’t know if we have to sign up and join a ‘marathon’ but I’ve taken it up anyway. What I have here for the past nine days though isn’t honest, I mean, not fresh–freshened up is more like it. I scrounged around for them from rejects of submissions and buffed them up. And so, the kigo is mixed–there’s autumn, winter, spring and summer here. Still, I know some of them or most of them aren’t ‘good haiku’ but like most of what I write, they transform into something else after a while. I don’t really write a haiku a day; when I do, it’s often up to ten or more. So, here are my take for NaHaiWriMO counted from day one. I hope to make the kigo right for the month of February in the next two weeks.
1.
empty nest
scrapes an ivy wall–
broken silence
2.
crow cawing
over shuttered houses
pierces my thoughts
3.
delayed arrival—
a hat bobs over the hedge
the wrong way
4.
lit up skies–
so many darkened doors
shushed walls
5.
twilight–
she kneels
to smell a rose
6.
winter thought–
on a window
a trickle
7.
stalactites–
her stubborn reply
scribbled
8.
raindrops
on an evening window–
what’s unsaid
9.
crescent moon–
his silence
his droopy eyes
Suppositions (One Shot Wednesday)
I gape at turtles dip legs
in a pool the sun
just now deserted.
Tipping on rock
I sway on a shell of suppositions
whether
or not water not light
whets the eyes, whether or not to sip
not to see fills cavities of
empty cages, gaping hearts
that sullen suns disabled
when deserting lovers
dredged the pool
of its clarity and water ebbed
on man-made rocks
where I now teeter, nudging
turtles on rock-edge, my legs dipped
but short on water, my toes
a ginger-spread
stalking my origins
elsewhere.
I mind the rain drowning
in pools or falling on ginger roots–
soon juiced for life—
but I don’t mind it falling
on crackling fire where
raindrops sizzle, the sound of
dying doused,
which props me up still balancing
on turtle back
eternal suppositions
that stilled the pool where I
have gelled.
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haiku
against a grey sky–
the sparkle of raindrops
on leafless maple twigs
My “jornal”? $200 for my pocket.