i can't do this. i
want nothing to do with this.
i've been here before.
so leave me alone.
i will take my ear/eye/nose,
edify elsewhere.
because i am weak.
because i am so alone.
i just don't need you.
why aren't you gone yet?
get away, get a life, go
grab someone who's game.
but you're iron sent
to cure my anemia.
throat/knee/rib at last.
(have we seen/posted these before? my brother emailed them to me this morning...)
CAT HAIKU
You never feed me.
Perhaps I'll sleep on your face.
And that will show you.
You must scratch me there!
Yes, above my tail! Behold,
Elevator rear.
I need a new toy.
A black dog's tail keeps good time.
Pounce! Good dog! Good dog!
The rule for today.
Touch my tail, I shred your hand.
New rule tomorrow.
In deep sleep hear sound
Cat vomit hairball somewhere.
Will find in morning.
Grace personified
I leap into the window
I meant to do that.
Blur of motion, then...
Silence, me, a paper bag
What is so funny?
Want to go outside.
Oh, no! Help! I got outside!
Let me back inside!
The mighty hunter
Returns with gifts of plump birds
Your foot just squashed one.
You're always typing
Well, let's see you ignore me
Sitting on your hands.
My small cardboard box
You cannot see me if I
Can just hide my head.
Terrible battle
I fought for hours. Come and see!
What's a term paper?
Kitty likes plastic
Confuses for litter box
Don't leave tarp around.
Small brave carnivores
Kill pine cones and mosquitos
Fear vacuum cleaner.
Want to trim my claws?
Don't even think about it!
My yelps wake the dead.
I want to be close
to you. Can I fit my head
inside your armpit?
Oh no! My Big One
has been trapped by newspaper.
Cat to the rescue.
Humans are so strange.
Mine lies still in bed, then screams!
My claws aren't that sharp!
Litter box not here
You moved it on me again
I'll go in the tub
The Big Ones snore now
Every room is dark and cold
Time for "Cup Hockey"
You will be so proud
When I bring you a rat at
The head of the bed.
Cats meow out of angst
"Thumbs! If only we had thumbs!
We could break so much."
funny how your dreams
penetrate and permeate
before they break ranks
and implode too close to home
for fate to be the culprit
framed water under bridges
under pipes, through dark
and light. Days are past
and then they turn to night.
the pictures freeze in winter
words that burn and stick upon
our ear. comprehend and know
that we've been at it for a year.
Wed Haiku: March 19, 2003
Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Two years progressed.
Away, frozen, done
We will meet again, 市郎.
- きしょ
Tomorrow, today's offspring,
gives birth to another.
Big family.
- 市郎
Wednesday, June 18, 2003
The Spirit has continued
Above the void, across the deep
A Face.
- きしょ
Found humility.
Not in selfabasement,
but in selfdenial.
- 市郎
Wednesday, June 11, 2003
Bright spots of sunlight
Reflecting on cities,
Offices, glad workers.
- きしょ
Lessons continue
changing me slowly.
Fruit harvested over time.
- 市郎
Wednesday, June 4, 2003
Contemplation ushers in evening.
Streetlights ignite, flicker
Go out.
- きしょ
Daily vanity
expresses eternal purpose.
My Life is His.
- 市郎
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
Weary morning.
Tired determination grows.
Today is the goal.
- 市郎
Autumn ends old constants
Shutting the past away
In a wooden box.
- きしょ
Wednesday, May 21, 2003
Daily troubles annoy.
Ideas sink deep.
Growing now with deeper roots.
- 市郎
The noontime haze lights
Over the foothills and stands
A little too close.
- きしょ
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
Routine crumbles away
When the midday passes
Others become more.
- きしょ
kumiko left.
ichiro will watch the moon.
neither seem far away.
- 市郎
Wednesday, May 7, 2003
Gray wash of sleep
Rises now, then disappears
God of second chances.
- きしょ
Life is vain.
Solomon's conclusion:
Carpe deum corum Deo.
- 市郎
Wednesday, April 30, 2003
What is not yet,
May one day be.
We are happiest when living now.
- 市郎
The presence of summer heat
Overwhelms and releases
Human breath.
- きしょ
Wednesday, April 23, 2003
In the twilight, a crowd forms
Conversations begin
Orange turns to blue
- きしょ
Though distance has brought pain,
the well of joy is deep.
Deeper still when shared.
- 市郎
Thursday, April 17, 2003
Today is Thursday.
Haiku a little late.
Should set an alarm.
- 市郎
Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Headlights illuminate the streets,
Tension is falling apart.
Work stays.
- きしょ
Shining sun on head,
Soon bells will no longer ring.
Fat Lady warms up.
- あきお
Wednesday, April 9, 2003
Cold wind and rain
Striking my face in April
The summer is closer.
- きしょ
Bigger World.
Shorter days.
Kumiko's returning.
Big haiku.
- 市郎
Wednesday, April 2, 2003
A voice in silence
Rending the stasis of midnight
"Come higher up!"
- きしょ
Kammer wants a palm.
Found one yesterday.
Powerful toy for the price.
- 市郎
Songs of whales in spring,
One-eyed monster eating time,
Another work day.
- あきお
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
All of Life is His.
All things good, His gifts.
Grace and Love surround; self dies.
- 市郎
You can hear it.
Can't you hear that?
Clouds racing overhead
On our backs.
- きしょ
Wednesday, March 19, 2003
Bible Conference
sit under cherry blossoms
but there is rain now.
- 市郎
The labor of sleep
a male cat, crying destroys well
I am awake.
- きしょ
Highways are broken racetracks.
still a finish line, but ends
over a few million horizons
The speed gains as the sun rises
And we stopped wondering
And consciously threw ourselves
into the race.
uprooted, grafted
juxtaposed with everyday
barley and routine
both hands working to the bone
both eyes pilgrimaging home
sirens -- that's what's bad
about the river district
sirens the motif
about to pierce your nightmare
sirens singing something worse