a haiku year

“The person who tells you this is impossible is the person you should start a haiku challenge with.”

ecentipede: LXIII August 29, 2008

Filed under: ecentipede, sustenance — ecentipedehaiku @ 9:26 pm

moisture drips off just-
over-ripe plums onto cut
herbs, keeping them fresh

 

Tanglethis – Sixty-one August 29, 2008

Filed under: elements, sustenance, tanglethis — tanglethis @ 8:20 am

Apple bread and figs
this still, gray morning; gray cat
watches from the sill.

 

Tanglethis – Sixty August 28, 2008

Filed under: love, mood, philosophy, tanglethis — tanglethis @ 3:06 pm

Destined to repeat
the same three verbs over time:
yearn, retreat, lament.

 

ecentipede: LXII August 28, 2008

Filed under: ecentipede, fauna, sensory — ecentipedehaiku @ 12:22 am

soft picasso blur
our lashes intermingle
sweet sleep overcomes

 

Tanglethis – Fifty-nine August 27, 2008

Filed under: philosophy, tanglethis — tanglethis @ 10:14 am

The difference of
stillness from silence is one
of presence, waiting.

 

ecentipede: LXI August 27, 2008

Filed under: ecentipede, love, mood — ecentipedehaiku @ 2:17 am

your stress means stomping
words, silence. my stress means bruised,
quick-tender replies.

 

ecentipede: LX August 26, 2008

Filed under: ecentipede, metatext — ecentipedehaiku @ 2:11 am

a day floated by
as i watched for a moment
worthy of haiku

 

Tanglethis – Thirty-eight August 25, 2008

Filed under: metatext, tanglethis — tanglethis @ 4:54 pm

What happened to this
day:  did it shrivel up?  fail
to rise from the sand?

 

Tanglethis – fifty-eight August 25, 2008

Filed under: love, philosophy, tanglethis — tanglethis @ 4:52 pm

I don’t believe in
maternal instinct: only
patience, curiosity.

 

ecentipede: LIX August 25, 2008

Filed under: corporeal, ecentipede, mood — ecentipedehaiku @ 4:10 am

tenuous stillness
achieved, i reluctantly
severed the moment