Tag: haiku

  • Timing life’s cadence

    How in the middle
    Of nowhere uncertainty
    Resolves in silence
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 09/25/07

    Learning to listen
    To the rhythm of breathing
    Timing life’s cadence
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 09/26/07

    Guidance comes when it
    Is given through listening
    To your direction
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 09/26/07

    The eyes cannot see
    What the soul reveals each time
    Breathe flows in and out
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 10/15/07

    I must be like you
    Listen to this whisper always
    A sound of thunder
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 12/25/07

    He too is some stream
    Thought in early trickle if
    Rain is like water
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 12/25/07

    Honor the present
    completely accepting now
    no then or future
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/26/08

    every day we find
    Spontaneous confusion.
    is there any other kind?
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/26/08
    12:50 p.m. based on page 26 of a General Theory of Love

    Play Saying one thing
    is physical poetry
    meaning another

    1:10 p.m.
    we earn our keep as
    trusty assistants ever
    watchful here and now.

    1:20 p.m.
    I’m gonna kiss it
    and make it better for you
    that’s what I should do

    1:34 page 30 of a General Theory of Love

    abstraction invents
    possibility of a
    mental future

    3:53 page 37 of a General Theory of Love
    feeling deeply is
    synonymous with being
    alive for humans

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/30/08

    night thoughts drift past dreams
    or was it more likely that
    dreams drift past night thoughts
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/21/08

  • Haiku about people and such

    Life is imperfect
    People do what they think right
    Live patience calmly
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 04/13/04

    Those ones who observe
    Watching justice slide away
    Undone by process
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/11/04

    Memories come unbidden
    To the victims of Katrina and Bagdad
    Memories come unbidden

    NOT a HAIKU
    To the displaced
    the failures of the leaders is remembered
    Regretfully, sporadically
    Recovery wrestles with regret
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 03/29/06 (copied)

    Can you explain it,
    Intelligence, by the way
    Thoughts show on the face?
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 10/15/07

    I learn things really
    fast because days grow shorter
    patience reflected
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/25/08

    Neither here nor there
    Stones in time bend to nature
    Souls are gone from stones.

    Jay Cross’ graveyard photo on Flickr Sunday
    CIMG0270.JPG
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/03/08

    Aldous Huxley
    optimistic concurrence
    we want avoidance
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/06/08

    A freeway canyon
    Over Santa Rosa creek
    Is what we have now
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/16/08

    Traffic sputtering
    Around the old courthouse square
    Drive away instead
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/16/08

    Bicycles blazing
    Catch the imagination
    Of Santa Rosa
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/16/08

    Throughout my whole life
    I have made it a habit
    To give away things
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/20/08

    The budget process
    A mock might equal amuck
    Keep slogging anyway

    Today’s Haiku – inspired by Nick Honey’s budget description @ all staff meeting

    Mach six is money
    Running really fast in the
    Wrong direction, oy.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/21/08

    Things are what they are
    So pay close attention to
    Complicated things
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/27/08

    Teenager secret
    Affirmative denial
    Just keep them guessing
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/28/08

    A haiku for her.

    attitude and joy,
    such a great combination
    in a little girl.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 04/11/08

    Keep your eyes open
    Keep your mouth shut, all the time
    Keep your hands moving

    Attributed to Cindy Wolf
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 04/12/08

    Reflected image
    Of love’s hidden light in dreams
    Revealed in you
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/15/08

    She is lost in thought
    The light of the future glows
    In her potential

    Haiku for you
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/allenowen/2547325334/
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/02/08

    The pervasiveness
    of fear – it’s like poison on
    anyone’s weary brain
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/23/08

    Q-tips kleenex bags
    plenty of paper products
    on a shopping list

    (don’t really need this – it was an old shopping list on the back of this morning’s haiku)
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/23/08

    Smiles flashing boldly
    Moments of pure joy in life
    Like a mockingbird
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/15/08

    Transfer behind a
    Temporary intention
    Lack of commitment
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/27/08

    Life and light
    More and less
    Talents and gifts
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 09/24/08

    Leadership level
    Categories spelled out
    Do they capture soul?
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/04/08

    Too tired to talk
    Life just keeps plugging along
    Now what will I do?
    (by Anne)
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/04/08

    Get your cute ass home
    Consider evening light and
    those ones who love you

    or

    Tell all those who grouse
    to be quiet like a mouse
    then close office door
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/04/08

    Barak Obama
    Hope embodied in a man
    A new president
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/06/08

    Pictures of a room
    Another classroom landscape
    Student space to learn
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/07/08

    Deliberate haste
    Is moving quickly slowly
    Barak Obama
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/07/08

    Our Acquisitions
    Are not Transformational
    Relationships are
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 04/24/09

    the blessed get to
    pay for the mistakes of the
    well off and the poor
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/08/09

    Friends in Sonoma
    Found a field of wine and grass
    Caballos blancos

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/althewop/3526195573/in/pool-33701253@N00/?addedcomment=1#comment72157618803046926
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/25/09

    I can suffer fools
    By listening carefully
    To their drip drip drip
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/09/09

    Suffer fools suffer
    You were born to it because
    You are so stupid
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/09/09

    Suffering all fools
    Is a way to leadership
    At times all are fools
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 07/09/09

  • haiku does not wait

    haiku does not wait
    for feeble distracted mind
    a Palm remembers
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    Just imagining
    an uncopyrightable
    monosyllable
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/18/08

    Ask about our roof
    My house still there up above
    Creaks but later here
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    I can’t help myself
    It just comes naturally
    Seeing things this way
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    Five five five five five
    Seven seven seventy
    Fifty five fifty
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/28/08

    Broken derailer
    It is a rough ride sometimes
    Pedaling nowhere
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 03/23/08

    It’s not possible
    To be wrong about haiku
    Except for the length
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 04/07/08

    Toes at attention
    Eyebrows are slightly furrowed
    Haiku on the way
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 04/07/08

    Weta bobosee
    Seba tewabo sese
    Bowe webo se
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/22/08

    Pungent smell of smoke
    Lingering of lightening
    Expressed as fire
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/15/08

    A moment of joy
    Every day it happens too
    With everything else.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 10/15/08
    Pickles pickles pick
    salty spicy I love it
    plenty of pickles

    Pickles all day long
    lunch dinner even breakfast
    Oh I love her so

    [from the bus ride]
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 11/06/08

    I give away things
    most valuable to me
    Altruism is good
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 12/20/08

    dark shadow and light
    green clarity goes to blue
    lack of clarity

    leaf

    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 01/04/09

    Angels in our heart
    Stayed in the foggy ground
    Memories hold true
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 05/28/09

  • Haiku with a theme of children

    I learn things really
    Fast because days grow shorter
    Was a child’s wisdom
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    Child you could know life
    With only some happy thought
    Wander to your dream
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 02/24/08

    Where has childhood gone
    ah, it grew up too and fled
    Simple pleasures gone
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 03/04/08

    Nowhere is now here
    a non space is now a place
    For children to be.
    <><><><><><><><><><><><><> 06/19/08

  • Haiku written while Chris drove me to work

    Lexi line the street

    Hillside denizens walk home

    pavers come today

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    I can’t help myself

    haiku just come to my brain

    and burst out anyway

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    California

    land of myth and mundane both

    cal-i-for-ni-a

    06/19/08