Haiku

[Bamagan]

Lonely, scrawny waif...
My help came too late for you.
Kittens should be round...

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Yeah I'm not a cat.
I don't go meow. I'm a cow,
Bitch, I go Moo-oo!

- Doja Cat, interpreted in Haiku

 

[Voboy]

Flowing forms, sprinting;
Two matched forces collided.
Albania drew.

 

[Voboy]

Heat-dome. A new term.
Swampy malaise descending,
Balls sticking to legs.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Lick her naked sole.
Clean off all the grime and sweat.
Tickle her big toe.

 

[Voboy]

The kind from Dover?
Or "alone?" That sort of sole?
Sole singers. Toe taps.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

It beats against dirt.
tail-swishes the arctic sea.
and belts songs out loud.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

My disc man and I
Jeff Buckley croons in my ears
Goodbye lilac wine

 

[Voboy]

Late-century days...
We had no clue they'd herald
An ugly new age.

 

[Bamagan]

Few people will heed
The prophets of doom and dread.
They lose, regardless.

 

[Bamagan]

Sticky Southern heat...
Stay inside from ten A.M.
to November first

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Wet apple orchard
Drip droppin' apples sweatin'
Autumn comin' soon

 

[Voboy]

No apples to bob,
No frost gnawing at the night.
Fall is faraway.

 

[lavendersilk]

5 Haikus

I erase the days--
to make room for the future.
My presence isn't present.


I am killing me.
Today I'll try to repair--
what I did before.


I've gotten so used--
to wearing this mask that I--
don't recognize me.


The miles are safe.
I can feel you from here just--
fine. Keep your distance.


Every drop of--
alcohol brings me one step--
closer to my dad.

 

[Voboy]

You fail. Bucket drains.
It can ALWAYS be refilled.
You are not your past.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

The night breathes deeply.
The sun rises each morning.
One day at a time.

 

[AlinaX]

this distasteful blood
is a proof, if nothing else,
that my heart still beats

~ meaning nothing more than trivial daily misfortunes

 

[ImpishSeraph]

Forever working
Sweet hexagonal patterns
Dangerously sweet

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Love like reckless youth.
Love like the thunder rumbles.
Love like endless rain.

 

[Voboy]

The new labyrinth:
Wires, spilling from the bass:
Colors blend, confused.


*I took "wires" as two syllables. I'm not sure I should have.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Plop! Frog dives right in.
I never see him again.
But ripples linger.

- "Froggy Issues" by Jackie Hikaru

 

[Bamagan]

Betting pool idea:
How long 'til that thread gets locked?
No wooden nickels.

 

[Bamagan]

If hair equals drapes,
and bush is carpet, then pits...
Valence? Window scarf?

 

[Bamagan]

I guess a bare mound
equates to a hardwood floor,
or maybe nice tile.

 

[Voboy]

Tastes change over time.
As years slur together, think:
"Shag:" carpet? Other?