The Haiku Project 2015
Thursday, December 31, 2015
31 December 2015
Another year ends.
I'm another year older.
But not yet wiser.
31 December 2015
Beginning to tomorrow, I'll be opening up the
Haiku Project 2016
, at the
link
.
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
29 December 2015
As we ate breakfast,
We watched snow falling gently,
Melting on the lawn.
29 December 2015
Saturday, December 26, 2015
26 December 2015
Constant rain falling,
Grey skies, gusting winds, and cold.
All matching my mood.
26 December 2015
Thursday, December 24, 2015
24 December 2015
Once in a while I wish
I could believe in something...
...Almost anything.
24 December 2015
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
22 December 2015
To share Yorick's fate
Would be good--to have a skull
Worthy of honor.
22 December 2015
Sunday, December 20, 2015
20 December 2015
My hair has turned gray
But my spirit still moves to
That old sixties beat.
20 December 2015
Saturday, December 19, 2015
19 December 2015
Not a Christmas tree,
But a poinsettia bush
Sits by the window.
19 December 2015
Friday, December 18, 2015
18 December 2015
At home the whole day,
Reading, playing with the dog,
Talking with my wife.
18 December 2015
Thursday, December 17, 2015
17 December 2014
Just last night, I watched
The clouds drifting slowly past
A pale crescent moon.
17 December 2015
(Unfortunately, my camera
did not cooperate.)
Saturday, December 12, 2015
12 December 2015
Awake in the dark,
Thinking of long-past loves, and
Waiting for the dawn.
12 December 2015
Friday, December 11, 2015
11 December 2015
Miles and Trane trading
Solos on "Blue in Green," and
My spirits revive.
11 December 2015
(Listening to "The Best of Miles Davis
and John Coltrane, 1955-1961."
Thursday, December 10, 2015
10 December 2015
Even while asleep,
I seem not to be sleeping...
Strange dreams trouble me...
10 December 2015
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
9 December 2015
A mountain of leaves
In the yard is just waiting
To be hauled away.
9 December 2015
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
8 December 2015
I like winter trees--
Their structure reveals itself
Against the sunset.
8 December 2015
(Taken about 4:00 PM today.)
Monday, December 7, 2015
7 December 2015
Atop the pine tree,
A cardinal keeping watch,
Red against blue sky.
7 December 2015
(Little bugger flew off
before I could get my camera,)
Sunday, December 6, 2015
6 December 2015
Sitting in my car,
Waiting for it to clear off--
Frost on my windshield.
6 December 2015
Friday, December 4, 2015
4 December 2015
Above my desk, this:
A print, "Complicity," there
Just to remind me.
4 December 2015
(by Lawrence Gipes, done in 1995)
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
2 December 2015
I turn off TV.
I turn away from the web.
I still find no peace.
2 December 2015
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
1 December 2015
I'm tired of hate,
And tired of violence.
But they never end.
1 December 2015
("All you need is love."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKiqthx0GKw)
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