Better not piss off Vikings

 It is Greenland not

Iceland. They will take umbrage.

Play nice with Vikings.

Why fight with allies

anyway? And why suggest non-    

sense, just to maintain

fame of one man who

cares only for himself? Better

not piss off Vikings.

Haikusannette 3 Appled Science

 "Take a Granny Smith

on your journey, you might need

something to chew on

as you consider

your way to the next pastor.

Green, though it is ripe

with meaning; it's sweet

enough to get you

there and back again.

It's not knowledge fruit,

so no worries there." she, smiling,

said kindly to me. 

I took the apple and felt its shelter

by planting the core further down the road.

What is the sound of no Trump tweeting (A Haikusanette/Koan)

 Imagine, if you will, 

calm: no conflict, just listening

and comprehending.

Then reality

cannot be far behind. This

is thoughtfulness forged.

Burning in the mind;

just before the idea is hammered;

our eyebrows get singed.

This is the future 

when Truth Social will post

only Haikus. Thus.

Happy Birthday, Gomez

 When i think back on days gone by

bright moments rise in my mind's eye:

sunny rays on a worn porch floor

warming us as we explored chords

to a new song while children played

ping pong and puppies chase

each other and woodchucks 

near the cairn with pluck. 

And while we strum our friend

walks in with some new chore

that becomes a game that builds

a pier, or shed, or oven fired

with fondest memories. Inspired

thus, we made them all; afterwards both proud and sore.

And at day's end, having made all these,

with instruments we gathered round and sung ourselves to peace.

Haikusanette 2

The hardware clerk said,

"Oh, i just sold the last roll!"

with mock dejection,

when asked for duct tape

that would prevent lips of power

from speaking lies and

stop ears of meek ones

from hearing them and children

from seeing them. No

amount of irony 

helps heal understanding's lack.

The project remains

sticky. So, i buy the monkey wrench

statue banning evil by ignorance instead.

Haikusanette 1

October 7, 2024

 I have no idea if this form has already been invented, however, my proposal is that a new hybrid form called the Haikusanette (Hi-koo-sonn-ett) be practiced. The form is this: Four Haikus followed by a two-line Koan. The idea is to combine the best parts of the Elizabethan sonnet and the Haiku. Please note instead of using a couplet to tie the poem up in a kind of textual bow as Sonnets often do, the Koan opens the package to reveal a paradox upon which to meditate after the poem is over.

Here is my first attempt at a Haikusanette:

A tree falls without

witness and i pretend to

care until i'm caught

etching my love for

you in its bark. i try to

claim ignorance, but

everyone knows. 

And meanwhile i dissemble

with sappy knife in 

hand: "But love heals sin,

right?  Besides the tree was dead"

 And your reply:

"A simple 'I love you,' would have been fine."     

 Can i get a witness of thought, word, and deed?

10-4-2024

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Tootle on and vigorously, be of that mind and tootle to

the beat of your eternal toot oh tootle, tootle on.

When you were one, you tootled fair.

You Tootled here you tootled there.

So tootle now with all you are heart oh tootle, tootle on.

Tootle on, you myrtle you, you Maple Tree, Inhale we you.

Tootle through the eons do, oh tootle, tootle on.

Tootle on and vigorously, be of that mind and tootle to

the beat of your eternal toot oh tootle, tootle on.

When we are one, we'll tootle fair

Round Jericho and in the air.

We'll tootle right back to the start, so tootle, tootle on.