February 2009
25 posts
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I can’t throw for shit!
A bitter disappointment
To my dog Harley
“Thought of the Day: Ancient pond. Frog jumps in. Splash!”
– David Lynch
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What can be said in 140 characters?
Some old Zen masters advised students:
“If you see the Buddha, kill him!”
Let’s use this technique on “haiku”,
particularly the “true” ones.
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On Wumenguan koan 33
Shankara spoke then
Descartes was struck by lightning
Just neti neti
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What can be said in 140 characters?
SCENE: Pickup passes blueheron w/ trekking sticks.
REDNECK: How can you ski in this weather?
BLUE: It’s all in the mind.
RDNK: Good answer.
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MANIFES-TOE
Micro poetry is not haiku,
or even taiku.
A new medium evolving to adapt to the twitter.com environment.
I call my tweets (not a word that my barbaric yawp should utter over the roofs of the world)
TWITTERKU
only in flattery to my micropoetry heros and lovers.
I write in the 5-7-5 format, not in ignorance or bondage, but because I enjoy chaffing
(& in homage to Issa).
Other micropoets...
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More Questions About Wumenguan koan 32 -
That word that Buddha Wouldn’t send the Outsider: Was it verb or noun?
morningporch:
Snowflakes make the wind visible. Who knew the yard was home to such complex currents? The anxious calls of a nuthatch on the far shore.
Last year
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Three sharp shotgun blasts
Just far enough to echo -
Raucous crows protest
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Spring day in Winter
Wasps beat against the window,
Quick black flames of hope
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Our nap much too long,
Old black tomcat licked my nose
Roughly with fish breath.
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“Just one for diner?”
Welcomed the roadhouse hostess
Cold winter evening
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Uncanny valley -
One neighbor’s yard is lush green
With pea soup lawn die.
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29 Scaup float,
Vanguard of the migration,
Bills tucked under wings
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Burst & blow open
The dim doors of perception -
Full moon at sunset.
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Something deep shifted:
Once dark with ducks & geese, now
Lake gulls screech alone.
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Waiting’s the hardest:
Frozen pipes below the house
Will thaw with a gush.
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Verse comes unbidden,
But not without receiving
Warm invitations.
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Stealing the canoe;
Now for the flawless escape -
Paddling in moonlight.
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“Panties in a wad
In the bottom of my purse.”
- Love to Joan Osborne
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I fuck you so hard
So that you’ll pay attention.
Was it good for you?
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openmicro:
First snow: not even enough to hide all the dogshit.
hatsu yuki ya furi ni mo kakurenu inu no kuso
Kobayashi Issa