One haiku, every day, for a year. Maybe two years, if I can manage it.
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i can't figure out which way to work this haiku. please tell me which one you feel is the best.
(the blank lines are on purpose.)
10/28/2008 haiku
aborted babies scream
ants cast shadows on stone walls
10/31/2008 haiku rearranged (attempt 1)
ants cast shadows on stone walls
aborted babies scream
10/31/2008 haiku rearranged (attempt 2)
(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
ants cast shadows on stone walls
aborted babies scream
10/31/2008 haiku rearranged (attempt 3)
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ants cast shadows on stone walls
aborted babies scream
10/31/2008 haiku rearranged (attempt 4)
aborted babies scream
ants cast shadows on stone walls
.. ... .. ... ..
10/31/2008 haiku rearranged (attempt 5)
ants cast shadows on stone walls
aborted babies scream
.. ... .. ... ..
10/31/2008 haiku rearranged (attempt 6)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
ants cast shadows on stone walls
aborted babies scream
Posted by changc on November 01, 2008 12:10 AM | 1 comment | Permalink |
real, substantial posts coming soon - not that you don't love haiku :)
10/17/2008
lunch settles defiant
gurgle burp stomach groaning
this is food service
10/17/2008
shaking anxiety
the moments before the storm
happens every time
10/18/2008 – the long weekend
Clean Access Agent
"Wrong username or password"
FUCK I.T. BULLSHIT
10/19/2008
terminal disease
quiet, trembling, screaming burdens
people call this life
10/20/2008
Shower line haiku
self-referential and doomed
beautiful, somehow
10/20/2008
facebook picture screen
almost had you, big brown eyes
now we're all grown up
Posted by changc on October 20, 2008 8:54 PM | 0 comments | Permalink |
10/13/2008
I'm ten kinds of hurt
the day I hear about your
father. No hugs. No light.
10/13/2008
The poet seeking
inspiration; he takes swing
and worlds are shattered
10/14/2008
"Come wander with me"
I'm staring into her eyes
She's gone tomorrow
10/14/2008
I remember when
you – and you – and you – all eyes
were looking at me
10/14/2008
I would write something
profound, but I only got
six hours of sleep. Yeah.
10/15/2008
Rockets in the sky
star streamers, five fingers spread
wondering if it's war
10/15/2008
dollar-store notebook
you're falling apart on me
ripped paper grinning
10/16/2008
Frankenstein looming
two papers, the kitchen sink
why's college so hard?
Posted by changc on October 17, 2008 1:37 AM | 0 comments | Permalink |
10/10/2008
I'm waltzing towards God
and I think he's in the notes
of Claude Debussy
10/10/2008
David and Taryn
old couple milling in bed
dinner's at six-thirty
10/10/2008
Today's saturday
well not really it's friday
guess I'm doing fine
10/10/2008
90's snowman melts
Campbell's soup commercial casts
nostalgia goggles
10/11/2008
John Lennon's saying
nobody loves you when you're
down and out. He's right
10/12/2008
We can't stand New Sex
and its old cliches, telling
us how to suck face
Posted by changc on October 13, 2008 8:23 AM | 0 comments | Permalink |
The other day I was hanging out with some friends in the Berea SENS house. Basically it is this house that people live in, and it is set up to be green and environmentally sound.
Someone had left an old chapbook (i think the date of publication was 2003?) on the coffee table in the middle of the room. It was called "365haiku", by the (now famous) slam poet big poppa e. For an entire year, big poppa e and two other friends wrote at least one haiku (or senryu) every day. When I checked out the website for the 365haiku project, there weren't any updates since 2004. After finishing the original 365, the members of the project had run out of steam.
It seemed like a simple enough idea, but then I started to ask myself if i could do that too. One haiku, every day? Well okay, I'll test myself.
From now on, i'll be posting a haiku, or a few, every day. If I make it to the 365 mark, I'll shoot for two years.
Posted by changc on October 13, 2008 8:10 AM | 0 comments | Permalink |