Haiku comment week continues. Today’s relatively small haul of half-baked haiku shows what happens when I prioritize my own blogging and going for a walk instead. Even without the extra effort to write haiku, it’s always hard to know how to balance writing with reading, commenting, and linking.
How can I separate
from the insidious desires
of the temporary self, that voicewhich whispers “today I want
warmer socks and a box of truffles
and praise from the people around me
and an easy shortcut
to everything I don’t yet know?”
It’s shine or shimmer,
sunspots on the camera lens
or my own shadow.
*
There are pomegranates in the refrigerator, untouched, and persimmons ripening on the tree. On Sunday a boisterous dog covered my shins in mud. She paid close attention to me in a way instantly familiar and wrenching…
Left in the fridge,
slowly turning sweet —
pomegranates.
*
We forgot to bring the Sibley’s Bird Guide with us (that and a bunch of other important things like the telephone, the modem, the cat’s kibble), so the new birds we are seeing in the creek are unknown to us. It’s like the good old days, when we just looked and couldn’t identify anything.
I like a café
where nobody knows my name:
I can eavesdrop.
*
Most important is the sea and a beach empty of people. Shorebirds wheel in the far distance trailing their shadows along the shoreline. The haze at the horizon suggests gannets or scoters tumbling into themselves above the breakers.
Shadows on the surf,
reflections on the wet sand:
black skimmers.
*
White stands for purity.
Maybe that is not appropriate.
Use a different color.
I myself would not use a plaid cloth.
The red pillow case
I use for an altar cloth
never shows the dust.
A meta haiku of the four haikus might be:
hearing seedy fruits
Impatient for deep wisdom
saying the word ‘plaid’
Heh. But if you go meta on my meta, one might well be tempted to wonder: what’s all that meta for?
Groaning out loud!
Thanks for the link Dave and the haiku!
You bet, Laura.