Title: My Days In Haiku Post by: ER on February 10, 2020, 11:11:07 AM When I was away from home not long ago, I decided to try to encapsulate something about each day in haiku form, and send to my friend, but I gave up after a week or so. These are the things I wrote down as haiku:
As I was standing Outside tonight I looked up, Saw a shooting star. Learned new words today; Met someone who plays guitar; Saw laughing children. Bought a belt from a Man with one eye frozen with Ice-blue cataracts. Lying in bed I Accepted sleeplessness and Wrote my grandmother. On the road a boy Was herding brown-spotted goats, iPhone in his hand. Beneath the sky’s dome Birds circle above, heedless Of our stark peril. Title: Re: My Days In Haiku Post by: ER on August 17, 2020, 09:54:56 PM Today:
Contemplated the Effects of gravity on Moon-based aliens. Polished some shoes for An upcoming event and Bathed my two doggies. Impressed my son with Tales of some kid's show and tell Being old grenades. Saw a beautiful Sunset, its red hues spattered With glitters of gold. And just now beheld A white night-cloud centered with The most perfect square. It is the plain days That anchor the spirit to This fast-flowing life. Title: Re: My Days In Haiku Post by: Allhallowsday on August 17, 2020, 10:48:20 PM She is a wacko
I do not know why she's nuts But we love our kook Title: Re: My Days In Haiku Post by: ER on August 17, 2020, 10:53:07 PM She is a wacko I do not know why she's nuts But we love our kook Censored, censored, and Censored, censored, censored, and Censored, censored, etc. :smile: Title: Re: My Days In Haiku Post by: ER on August 18, 2020, 12:14:59 PM Drowned spider in our
Trash cans this morning, floating Like a drowned spider. (Can you handle a haiku that profound?) Title: Re: My Days In Haiku Post by: Allhallowsday on August 18, 2020, 12:57:43 PM She's going to Hell
And does not worry 'bout it Or does she really? Title: Re: My Days In Haiku Post by: ER on August 18, 2020, 01:07:57 PM My grandma says I'm
Hell-bound but I reject her Interpretation. Title: Re: My Days In Haiku Post by: ER on August 18, 2020, 01:17:40 PM Seriously, that's the dark side of Catholicism, my grandmother's thinking, the Church's saved/not saved outlook. I know this family who worries their son, brother, is possibly in Hell, where his mom thinks I helped put him, and get I recall having this conversation with him that in retrospect almost seems prescient and purposeful, in which he told me after reading the Book of Romans he believed, despite years and years of Catholic school, that salvation was only through unearnable grace and he said he quit worrying that personal conduct outside an acceptance of Jesus had anything to do with whether a person went to Heaven or Hell. I've told his family about what he said to me but it never seems to quite penetrate past their almost addictive pseudo-need to worry that he died damned because of mortal sin. So they pay for memorial masses and do all sorts of things to accrue enough vicarious grace to possible see he avoided Hell.
Title: Re: My Days In Haiku Post by: ER on May 26, 2022, 06:05:27 PM "I'm hot, you're pretty,"
Said my cousin one spring night. "But you'll last longer." Then she continued With a morose pronouncement I still remember: "There are few sadder Things than a former hot girl Who outlives her era." So she said that night When I was twelve, she sixteen. Her forecast thus ran. Thirty years passed by; She's still hot, so prophecy Stands yet to be seen. One night I will ask Why "pretty" lingers when "hot" Cools in its half-life.... Its embers dimming, Fading to dullness as if Cursed by a decree. Maybe she'll recall Her words from our younger days, Or now deny them. Title: Re: My Days In Haiku Post by: Allhallowsday on May 26, 2022, 09:30:29 PM She loves attention.
She'll do what she must to snag the spy of your eye. Title: Re: My Days In Haiku Post by: pacman000 on May 26, 2022, 10:29:54 PM Paul’s words can be hard
Be careful not to twist them To your destruction :bluesad: Title: Re: My Days In Haiku Post by: ER on May 27, 2022, 07:29:06 AM I once asked if nuns
Have tough knees from their kneeling In church all the time. Title: Re: My Days In Haiku Post by: pacman000 on May 27, 2022, 10:34:42 AM I suppose that nuns
Have some tough knees from kneeling Often through the day :smile: Title: Re: My Days In Haiku Post by: ER on May 27, 2022, 09:37:09 PM A jealous heart treats
Life with disdain, raises to Art all that's profane. |