haiku
Haiku
Thursday, November 29, 2007
1. Haiku:
Counting already?
That's correct. 5-7-5.
Really quite simple.
2. Life:
Life is poetry.
What? Nobody mentioned this?
Take a look around.
3. The Bus:
Was riding the bus.
Crazy guy sat down nearby.
Began throwing sporks.
4. Children:
The kids are screaming.
It's seven in the morning.
Just glad they aren't mine.
5. Winter:
Cold nights, frozen toes.
Where's my electric blanket?
Post-modern Linus.
6. Holidays:
Christmas already?
Yearly consumer nightmare.
All the money's gone.
7. Technology:
My computer died.
Enjoy the schadenfreude.
I'll be breaking things.
8. Television:
Pharmaceuticals.
TV ads so full of them.
Many side effects.
9. Public relations:
No time to reply.
Too busy working right now.
All apologies.
10. Dreams:
That's me over there.
Shaking my fist at the sky.
The sky wonders why.
11. Time:
November's over?
You've got to be kidding me.
Was just about to ...
- Tim Sullivan, tsullivan@sfchronicle.com
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/28/NSM4TJ950.DTL
This article appeared on page G - 3 of the San Francisco Chronicle
5 Comments:
tim makes many words.
circular, thought provoking.
more words tim, more words.
Nothing so un-simple as poetry.
paradoxes are
sugar in the poetry
of my coffee
Be careful. The wind
will take your breath like the clocks
that chime in Belfast.
You write haiku, I
write fiction and here I write
nonsense. Blog away!
i think we will meet
but it's quite hard to say when
only time will tell
remember flowers
blooming in the desert night?
rewarding but rare
Post a Comment
<< Home