Haiku, early September 2009

And finally haiku from the last week; this takes the total up to an even 50, halfway through my personal haiku goal. I've decided to put them altogether into some kind of pdf or something at the end, and maybe there'll be between six and twelve that are half decent!

The difficult choice,
To do it on the morrow
Or to stay up late...


The rain keeps falling,
Vanish, like my tears, an
Evaporation


We preen and we pose,
For what? Life comes to its close
And nobody knows...


Evil moth sits and stares,
Pretends not to notice that
I have noticed it


Dumb dickhead chav kids,
Riding bikes and swearing lots
Because it's 'clever'


Funny smell on train,
Oh, but it's not me again;
Hmm, what is that stain?


As the train pulls in,
I think about pulling out
And what that could mean


I catch the train (just)
All out of puff, and shiver,
Then count my blessings

Haiku, August 2009

All but the last of the following were written while I was in San Francisco; a particular group, easily identifiable by their content, were written while I was waiting (momentarily frustrated) in the lobby of the Renoir Hotel.

I sit deflated,
Tired; am I sick? Hope not!
Have lots still to do.


And you lie to me,
And I let you, sweet smile,
Heart still skipping beats.


I circle your mouth,
Gently stroking and touching
With my fingertip


your hand is in mine -
I feel it - over here
in another land


In San Francisco,
I wait for the computer.
My sunburn tingles.


I know he's paying
But does he have to type slow?
And print out so much?


He left it at last,
But shut it down! Sigh - and sigh! -
The log off is fine


the power to change
how others make me feel
mine, and mine alone

Haiku, June and July

It's some time since I have shared haiku that I have been writing, actually since before I went on my road trip; but that doesn't mean that I haven't been writing them, far from it. In the next few posts I've collected together some of the haiku that I've been jotting down in my Moleskine over the summer, and eventually ending up in the first week of September. As ever, let me know if you like them! I'm not always sure that I do by the time I come to share them, maybe one in ten stands out at me as something neat or interesting.

A note: some of these are quite specific, and were obviously influenced by things going on around me at the time, so I think I might add some commentary in the comments at a later date (but one not too far in the future).

June

She always teases,
Pointing out my shortcomings.
I laugh, but she's right.


It is not a dream;
I never want to forget
This wonderful day

July

The mirror cracks wide,
I can't see myself inside,
The old me has died?


Fingers go walking;
It's spring down in the valley
I can't help myself.


Your nails rake me,
The sensation makes me gasp!
Your soft lips delight.


So... The Blue Man Group?
Or David Copperfield?!
But... Jerry Seinfeld!


An Angus Burger
Is dirty, but Taco Bell
Is really much worse...

(the latter two were written while I was in Las Vegas)

Haiku

It's been some time since I posted haiku, but it doesn't mean that I've not been writing them. Here are the recent ones from the last month or so, which takes us up to 27 in total now.

A trick of the light,
The smile I thought I saw
Was not meant for me


We gambled our love
For the sake of a bad debt
And came up snake eyes


The end of the world
Is different for each man.
A personal fate


Your reassurance
And then my ego is maxed!
I can play outside


Faster and faster
And faster, resulting in
Your own disaster

Haiku

I dress for summer -
A vain hope, I must admit,
Days with you are cold.


Be yourself! they say,
But how can I? I can't be,
Not so easily.

Haiku

You laughed, so tickled;
High summer, beach, sandcastles,
And me in my scarf.


It's a cold sunshine,
These days without you; you know
That the nights are worse


Departure clock ticks.
My watch was set fast, and I,
I wish you away


Holding my breath in,
I was desperate to know
What your answer was.

Haiku

The problem is mine,
I don't trust myself with you.
We dance; I tremble.

Haiku

While I've been solving maths puzzles, reading books and working on pieces of fiction, I've also been throwing a few little haiku around. Here are three.

Your smile dies out,
A memory taken now.
A fading picture

*

"I can wait," she says,
At Winter's Edge. I decline;
I know her too well.

*

I watched a while,
Then realised, too late - BLAM!
You knew where I was...

Haiku and a promise

Stitch her together
From fresh meat; my servant snarls;
We wait for lightning.

I don't know what that says about me, I really don't... But there it is. I guess I was thinking about zombie haiku the other day, and a little later this came to me. Something Frankenstein-y, mixed in with black and white movies from the 1950s (I watched the excellent The Last Man on Earth a few days ago, much better than I Am Legend!).

For a long time I've talked about flash fiction as well... And I've promised and promised to write and put something up. And every time I've broken that promise.

Tomorrow I will post my first piece of flash fiction, Five Cigarettes, as it is written and tonight I am just going to go through and see if there is anything I want to tweak. I finished writing it at the weekend, and decided to let it rest for a few days before I looked over it again.

In other news I have started learning C++, as in the absence of news on my corrections from my examiners and news of jobs I've applied for (I've pretty much settled in my head that I am going to go on holiday in September) I thought it would be good to keep the learning process going. Learning C++ is something that I think will be pretty good too, as it gives me some more skills for the future, and will also allow me to achieve one of my 101 things.

'Til tomorrow then!

Haiku

It's been a while, but yesterday having watched "Zombie Haiku" on Youtube (courtesy of a Boing Boing link, and by the way, I guess the link is a little bloody and zombie-ish, so reader beware) I was inspired to write a couple of haiku in the evening. The first actually is a zombie haiku, and is - in some ways - a bit of a cop out, but I think that a lot of fun could be had with it, especially if one was to illustrate it in a really interesting way.

brains... brains... brains... brains... brains...
brains! brains-brains-brains... brains...? BRAINS!!! brains...
brains...? b-b-braaaains? braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaains...

Let's leave aside the pedantic notion of whether or not zombies really go for brains, or whether it is just a general human flesh thing that they do. I quite like the idea of zombie haiku as a funny little thing, and the haiku in the Youtube video are pretty funny.

The second haiku that came to me is more of a story - well, not quite. Or rather, I was originally thinking of it as the starting point of a story (not in a haiku form, but in some kind of descriptive prose) but then I realised that perhaps the simple imagery of it - and everything that might be suggested by it, or one's own imagination could create from it might make it quite a nice little haiku.

The black box tumbled;
Blocking sunlight we saw it,
And all we knew changed.

That's all I got for now, maybe more later. I was going to go out trainer shopping, but I think that the shopping centre will be busy (and plus, no-one should ever go to a mall when they've been thinking about zombies, it's just wrong) and I can probably shop in more peace if I go tomorrow.

The rest of the family are all out now, so I might just use this opportunity to get some writing done that I keep putting off...