Haiku U

[drown]

grandest ambitions

arrest the mediocre

you
must be
john galt​

 

[darkerdreamer]

Eighty-Sixed by David B. Feinberg

AIDS epidemic,
through the eyes of one gay man.
Lots of sarcasm.

 

[Tzara]

Story of O: Pauline Réage

Here she is: O, penned,
prodded, flayed. She finds this nice.
Stephen likes the end.

 

[sellthecookie]

Mrs Dalloway -Virginia Woolf

clarissa fusses,
party, party, party,
inside people's minds



[-thanks for this thread ]

 

[drown]

myrna minkoff rocks
in a world gone mad each day
who here be the dunce
?​

 

[drown]

man confronts nature

a boat
the sea
and
the fish

parable of will​

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

The English Patient ~ Michael Ondaatje

Illicit affair
Canuck cares for Crispie Count
World War Two ends. Fin.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Fried Green Tomatoes ~ Fannie Flagg

Reminiscences.
Secret recipe, gourmet ribs
Whistle Stop Café

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Mustard Seed Garden ~ translated by Mai-mai Sze

Rice paper and ink
Practice, practice, practice, tao
Finally, bamboo.

 

[darkerdreamer]

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Shepard questing for
fortune. Finding wisdom then
a woman, riches.

 

[clutching_calliope]

Roots - Alex Haley

.....

 

[drown]

lying in a heap
thirty feet of good trout stream
brautigan was drugs​

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Orlando ~ Virginia Woolf

transformational
a life four centuries long
written for Vita.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Ariel ~Sylvia Plath

Daddy's girl she's not
suicidal poster girl
40 of her best

 

[skittles_lm]

Not a book to read.
Four pencils, two pages later:
Six, how I hate you.
*

this is fucking great
Sudoku, love or hate it
try it with a pen

 

[clutching_calliope]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

.....

 

[darkerdreamer]

Chief’s in the machine.
Billy Bibbit was badder.
Jack is El Zappo.
*

I you. Please have my manbabies?

 

[clutching_calliope]

A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews

.....

 

[skittles_lm]

The Dark Tower series~Stephen King

An epic journey
dark saga of life and death
over and over

 

[clutching_calliope]

Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk

.....

 

[clutching_calliope]

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling

.....

 

[Tzara]

Finnegans Wake: James Joyce

River. Ladder. Sleep.
Neologisms. More puns.
The start's at the end.

 

[Tzara]

Angels and Demons: Dan Brown

Fly Langdon to CERN.
Guy missing eye. Bomb stuff gone.
Vatican—bye, bye.

 

[Tzara]

Casino Royale: Ian Fleming

My testicles hurt.
I'll take a card. Look, I win!
Vesper's hot, but odd.

 

[Tzara]

Macbeth: William Shakespeare

Hey, let's kill the king!
Fuck this conscience thing. Kill more.

.......Weird. The forest moved.