Haiku

walking by flowers
the only one I gave her...
delicate pansy

Haiku*

a blooming white rose
what is wrong with your petal
little butterfly


*Anyone who has studied haiku should know the inspiration for this. In fact its more a tribute than anything.

Haiku

In a living room
the fly buzzes in my ear
--please close the screen door

Haiku

The Sun and the Moon
carelessly hide and go seek
while he trys to sleep

Haiku*

passing the flowers
ruining the honeymoon
silly bumblebee


*I've begun to draw on old material. Most of the haiku ending with "little ----" or "silly -----" are written during a period which I consider to be my Golden Age of Haiku; a time where my haiku were traditional and they came very easily to me. Ironically, they were written during a shakey period of my life in the summer of 2005.

Spring Twilight

Spring twilight;
Heavenly Bodies
make room
for Hers.

Haiku

an old Asian man
deflated expectations
Super Lotto Plus

s-n

like a child
it sets
when I ask
it to stay

Haiku

on a cramped Bluebus
lady don't sit next to me
hippopotamus

Haiku

Purim Mitzvah*
that went miserably wrong
(his teeth were rotten)




*Jewish holiday where you distribute bags of candy to homeless people

Haiku

like winter water
her toe darts from the asphalt
a solid red hand

Haiku

on spring zephyrs
flock of yellow leaves
crossing the street

logic hates ambiguity...HAH!

2006

Modern pain:
your lower back strain
high blood pressure is back
and you will surely die
of a heart attack

Modern pain:
your eyes strain
past the glare:
"SEX ENHANCER!"
your wife has cancer

Modern pain:
the elegant reason
paramount to treason
history's handsome fraud
belief in....

have faith
I am wiser than you
--what no faith?

nonlinear
I promise
is better

Modern pain:
can they recover
when we discover
it hurts more
than that of yore

Nihilist and Poet

"I sir, write about nothing!"

Nihilist and Poet

"How d-dare you create double meanings in a world where there is none!?"

Haiku

a computer desk
offers no inspiration
stupid idiot

Haiku

staring at the clock
wishing I had gone to sleep
four hours ago

Haiku

sitting across her
I should have just kept walking
the shuttle ride home

Haiku

the wavy moment
of the rippling round white flesh
ten pounds overweight

The pain is the pain killer.

Slouch

umbrella
cloud
rain
Asian girl
frown
slouch

Haiku

Even with myself
the late night conversations
sadly onesided

Haiku

enough already
please-- you're making me dizzy
little butterfly

Haiku

my old tennis shoes
make it hard for me to walk
--tripping over them

Haiku

Western Medicine…
"got just the thing for yer cough--
involves surgery."

Haiku*

Eastern Medicine…
"Ryu san, you broke yo’w neck—
I go buy you herbs."



*Please do not be offended as I wrote these about two years ago.

Poem

no more negative thoughts
no more negative thoughts
no more negative thoughts
no more negative thoughts
no more negative thoughts
no more negative thoughts
no more negative thoughts
no more negative thoughts
no more negative thoughts
no more negative thoughts
no more negative thoughts
no more negative thoughts
no more negative thoughts
no more negative thoughts
no more negative thoughts

Poem

She is no supermodel
but I still mutter marry me
under my breath
under her dark curls
looking up from my desk
her goofy Jewish smile
as she flutters by me

...like a Jew
she deflates my expectations
arguing with my logic teacher
throwing her arms in the air
"this is ridiculous"

this is ridiculous

Poem

The sun breaking apart;
Fall leaves
A chubby kid
with a dumb face
and slick moves
was playing tag
in a leaf shower.

Lazy, Yo

It seems to me that we should leave some mark upon the world and not just pass away, for what good can that do?

--Eleanor Roosevelt, age 14.

Stupidly grazing
the grey sheep stood

meh
mmeehhhh
mmmmMMEEEHHH

Fat cheeks
inflated
like a ballon
crumbs of grass

Common, I'm a good guy

"God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son"
....
"Father?" "Yes, my son?"
...
"but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"
...
He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
...
Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns

Haiku

The sweetest sunset
that these eyes have ever missed
sleeping through the day

Haiku

The calming blue light
of a humming computer
unable to move