the plural of haiku is haiku (x 20)

Union Square holiday market (December 2013)

I recently posted about my poetry exploits and a few folks requested some of my verses. Next, I shared a silly group of haiku I wrote in 2011 and a video of me reading one of my poems in January 2015.

Now, it’s time for haiku overload — 20 haiku written over the course of my adult life (with a couple of my photos thrown in for good measure).

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you squint your eyes and

anticipate cool wind on

your face like a kiss

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seeds now mutant can

no longer comprehend how

evolution works

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you once seemed very

important but now you are

another four years

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bargains and sales and 

the smell of chemicals make 

cash registers hum

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in times of conflict

no one expects a slacker

to be a black belt

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sunken poetry

drown in a pool of f sharps

armageddon art

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the way i see it

unemployment insurance

is subsidized arts

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she kissed me a lot 

rather than listening to 

me talk all the time

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you have eyes to watch 

a bee fly no need to ask 

for its resume 

Nyack, NY (August 2010)

eat when you’re hungry

sleep when you’re tired make love

when you’re inspired

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my awareness has

been cleared of all charges but 

told not to leave town

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black mask gun barrel

silhouetted under a

zapatista moon

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filled with detachment

the dragon uses his breath

to warm up dinner

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the armies remain 

nothing left to protect but

people crave safety

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she wrote a novel

with a single raised eyebrow

chapter by chapter

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no correlation

the randomness exquisite

a hymn to chaos

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everyone falls at

thirty-two feet per second

some land on two feet

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i have seen the best

minds of my generation

destroyed by sadness

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truth spreads in pasture

we have more to fear from the

shepherd than the wolf