Haiku 5

rusty canon balls
meadows alive in night
spirits trapped in war

blue sky dreams

a walk in the woods

no bird cries

all roads lead somewhere

thicker in the forest

delusions in silence

skeletal trees clack
like pool balls
walking in wind

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Hey all,  I decided to post  haiku because I am going to send two batches away from my year in haiku book. I never finished typing the poems. Now I am going to finish typing them and I will send a batch to two different haiku publishers. Maybe I will throw Frogpond  in there because they published me once before.  Enjoy

Haiku 4

frozen roast
pot is cold
pizza for dinner

boardwalk on the fly
wheelin and dealin
collect two hundred

technicolor dreamin
dust dancin in light
kickin back

stars call for darkness
mind full of mud and mosquitos
moon glare licks wounds

It's been awhile since I posted some haiku. These were written in the end of February and the begining of March. Okay, you got me, it's been awhile since I posted anything at all. I am going to try to post more things on here. I have the time. And we will get into that story another time.

The snow is falling here and it is a perfect day to curl up and read some haiku and then read them again.  Why not, do you have something better to do?

With that let an elf take your shoes and fill them with stardust and fly to the moon with your phoenix.

The End of This Salacious Life

Well on December 31, 2012 I wrote my last three haikus for This Salacious Life. You may or may not remember I started last January 1 and I was to write 3 haiku everyday all year. Okay I tried my best if I missed a day then I would write 6 the next. I was dedicated to this project and I stuck with it. Well in December I slacked off a lot more than normal but the end was coming and I did make up all haiku I missed. However on the last day I made sure I wrote the last three. I did the math and I wrote at least 1100 haiku. Wow that is a hell of a lot.

I want to share with you the first three haiku I wrote and the last. Enjoy them and I will post some more here and there when the mood strikes me.

January 1, 2012

evergreen morning
woke up to a greatness
today begins all

I saw her blow smoke
ice laden fog surrenders
wanton hunger

malicious ocean
storm tossed memory disguised
as mountain fury


December 31, 2012

last day
the world changes
too fast in my universe

what is dedication
366 days
for what I love

this is the end
not goodbye
the world waits for me

Haiku 3

one extra day
who cares
time moves on its own clock

stationary light
pierces obsidian
full moon night

small moment
ensnared by words
poem

dismantled derrick
displays dollar store doll
demolished

In honor, of my recent happy email, I decided to post a haiku series. So what is this awesome news? I am getting a haiku published in Frogpond, the Haiku Society of America's journal. The haiku will be published in the winter edition of the magazine. How awesome is that. I am so glad because I am starting my way on fullfilling my life long dream as being a published writer. Slowy, I am moving upwards but going up slow is better than going nowhere fast.

I still don't know what my next poetry project will be for the upcoming year. This idea kind of hit me and I had to run with it. With almost a month to go, I have been slacking more but I catch up. I must stay dedicated because I just do. I start a lot of projects and many of them are unifnished. So actually finishing something is a big deal.  I haven't decided if I want to edit my book down to a manageable level and try to have the book published. I would like to start perhaps sketching some pictures for the haiku. I suppose that will make it more of a haibun but still the same principal.

Enjoy the haiku, love to hear what you have to say.

And this road is paved in gilded words, beautiful words that glitter in the darkest of days.

Haiku 2

cut cobblestone path
calm, white plantation
bodies hang from cypress

it titubates
cotton candy on the tongue
surprise snowfall

prismatic eye
from shadowy corridors
straight jacket peril

where laugh begins
where it dies under cloud fall
ridged life

Its been awhile since I added to my online collection for This Salacious Life.  Most of these were written in February. The first batch was written in January through the beginning of February. I have a lot of haiku to choose from. I select ones that I want to send away for printed publication, those bad boys you won't read until they are published. The ones I select here are the ones I may have sent away at one time, or I like a whole lot. There are plenty that are bad and they will stay hidden in the actual book document.

My goal to publish in order is because I think I gotten a lot better with this form. I should hope so, I am  almost done with my poetry project for the year.  So the next  time I post some on here they will probably be written from March through April.

I would love to hear what you have to say. The comment box is always open.

As always may your coffee cup be brimming with hot WAWA coffee.

Haiku 1

assaulting dandruff
from naughty earthen angels
obscure winter’s night

once again I find
myself soaring high
a mouse to the ground

scintillating breath
awkward moon phases
to find freedom’s door

yellow metal diamond
dancing deer
next three miles


Just a little note about these haiku and many more to come... At the beginning of this year I decided that I needed a project to write more. Sure I could have said I want to write a novel (which I was working on a novel but I, for some reason, don't seem to stay too dedicated to it) but I went with something smaller- way smaller. I decided to write 3 haiku everyday from January 1, 2012 all the way to December 31, 2012. About 90% of the time I do write 3 haiku everyday, sometimes I may skip a day but I write 6 the next day.  My poor notebook that I write these haiku in is incredibly battered, filled with coffee stains and faded pencils marks.

The project is entitled This Salacious Life and the preceeding was a selection from it. I have plenty more to post, so if you like haiku and like those I hope you come back in the future.