Thursday, September 24, 2009

2009-09-23


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@HappiForever: the hawk cried three times / before diving down into / the field of cut hay #haiku

@sylmobile: A fly has arrived. Its square wave dance distracts me. My hand subtracts it. #haiku

@alotus_poetry: after I mowed the lawn / a bluebird plays tag / with grasshoppers #haiku #senryu

@morganabag: the greyness / sucks poetry / from my brain #senryu

@alotus_poetry: news of suffering / autumn blooms of kisses / from mosquitoes #senryu #haiku

@nibblesandbits: sexy cyber tryst / sparks across the internet / Googley eyes #haiku #haikutherapy #playonwords

@ldwilkinson: This poem / was written / after deleting / an even / worse one. #micropoetry

@wqueens7: @wqueens7 http://znl.me/JYFRK - Its always a treat/ to take manhattan by foot/ watching jersey drive/ #haiku

@marshaikus: it is her anger/ that drones throughout the hallways/ in the schoolyard fights #haiku

@marshaikus: so quick to dispose/ you throw your souls from the roof/ to the streets below #haiku

@mamasanta: through the bird skull whistle of wind #haiku

@alotus_poetry: so red / against this manicured lawn / a cherry popsicle / melting / on a maple leaf #tanka

@InkyLecim: #haiku / truth guides the journey / i'm just thorns without the rose / me cook chiken good

@alotus_poetry: summer ends with my unbraided hair and a friend's short temper #senryu #haiku

@bonshaiku: Bottlenose dolphins / playfully nudge bathers to / hotel guests' delight. #haiku

@Tobuno: early morning walk/ the fog tangled with tall grass/ they made up, at dawn. #haiku

@Naumadd: Naumaddku: "Blossoms - waving in the breeze ... Me! Me next! Bees!" - #haiku #poetry

@anyothercity: under /whale bone cloud /and barren limbs / my neighbor rakes / golden leaves #tanka

Spinland: Work was a real pain. / I feel like smacking something. / Would you please hold still? #haiku

@mamasanta: the size of a sleeping pill full moon #haiku

@alotus_poetry: last night's sudden chill / I miss you less / with the embrace / of your army jacket / while dreaming of you #tanka

@@mamasanta brother's prized marble / down it goes / into the wishing well #haiku #senryu

@mamasanta can't sleep / the moon / has a smudge #haiku

@mamasanta: old prostitute / petting / the alley cat #senryu

@VerboseComa: The Elephant Girl / Walking down a crowded street / "Take my tusks for free." #haiku

@dengary: dead-end alley / darker than vacant sky— / yowl of a cat | #haikunoir #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

@dengary: mid-air catch— / three-legged dog / and his old frisbee | #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

@Grenhilda: With wicked laughter / my batteries are recharged / ready getset GO #haiku

@mamasanta: The balloon man's pot belly / if only I had / a pin #senryu #haiku


@omeuxeito: Belleza sin fin / que tus mejillas lave / querría crear. (Beauty Endless / your cheeks flush / would create.) #haiku

@dengary: free at last / bright against black storm / yellow balloon | #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

@NYHaiku: waves of blue and white / caress the horizon's edge / September mornings #haiku

@Grenhilda: Now in this moment / existing in contentment / a perfect second #haiku

@dengary: at this ancient well / the old bucket handle shines / deep and green the moss | #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

@mouseofzen: ºoº rain forest mangled | this river in a circle | begs for its freedom ºoº мσυѕє σƒ zєη #haiku #disney

@haikunut: Marginalia, / a mishmash of dream fragments, / casual cursing, / forumulae, fish bate, a bit / of Elvis in black pencil. #tanka

@kesterize: sees beetle swirling in whirlpool in sink while dish washing. Saves beetle. Traces #haiku &appreciates reverence &d moment.

@alotus_poetry: 9/23: heavy rain-- / acorns / chasing a baby squirrel #haiku

@gennepher: Two mounted police / The new bobbies on the beat / Patrol neighbourhood. #haiku

@gennepher: No bobbies on beat / Dixon of Dock Green long gone / Think I'm getting old. #haiku

@MercurialMe: See ... the heavy leaf/ on the silent windless day .../ falls of its own will Boncho #haiku

@wildthingmoishe: Unexpected sprouts Hidden under noodles Murder my Pho Ga. #haiku #haikuthursday

@Alismcg: #haiku learning from spiders / cycle threads 'cross inner worlds / pilgrim acrobats #haikutherapy @Dr_Wes @nibblesandbits

@nibblesandbits: On thin, shaky limb / I tightrope across life / without a safety net #haiku #haikutherapy

@mamasanta wind / a snow-ghost skates / across the yard |#haiku


@ruinedXfinery: my precious Mathilde-stricken and brave/I never thought to check on how many /cat lives she has in queue #haiku NOT

@ernbrn: Cough cough cough cough cough/sniff cough cough hack sniff sniff cough/ah ah ah ah CHOO! #experimonth #haiku #achoo

@symphonist: customer submerge/ in sea of no clarity/ customer surface #haiku #haikuchallenge #clarity

@urbancrafter: his solipsistic -- love bore no competition - - except from mirrors. #haiku #kaihu #haibroku

@Eternal_Spring: Sunset, a window / Opens in the Southern sky, filled / With phantasmagoric clouds #micropoetry

@bonshaiku: Squirrel rummages / through corn husk compost / at harvest time. #haiku

@thalgyur: splash! / an old frog disturbs / the clarity of water // #senryu #clarity #haikuchallenge

@ldwilkinson: Your Buster Keaton / philosophy: / however hard you fall, / pick yourself up and / don’t show them it hurt. #tanka #micropoetry

@LivenbothWorlds: Swirling, reflection/ water pool vibrant with life/ frogs sing songs of love... #haiku #haikutherapy #life #environment #frogs #healing #love

@mamasanta: floating through galaxies / of Queen Anne's lace / a white moth #haiku


@mamasanta: The cat / has moved onto / another yard -- / the cardinal / still crying for her mate. #tanka

@monkeybrigade: Surreality. / Balloon slips off the kid's wrist / And he floats away. #haiku

@Eternal_Spring: Inland waterway, a mossy / damp board on the white sand / waves bouncing into ripples / at its edge #Micropoetry

@Eternal_Spring: Goodwill closes / A new psychic opens / With a neon sign. #Haiku #micropoetry

@Tetsubishi: fierce clarity - / ribs my husband cracked still ache / one year later #haikuchallenge 'clarity' #senryu

@NYHaiku: HD TV sets / provide unmatched clarity - / unless wife blocks view #haikuchallenge #haiku

@NatureSpirits: #haiku Crows sound my alarm, woodpecker drums me awake—heron flies me up.

@mckra1g: Chlorophyll retreats/leaving her scarlet blush wake/autumnal coquette. #haiku #poetry

@bzrd: i know silly boys/ with childish remnants attached/ to their youngish skulls #experimonth #haiku

@mamasanta: sparrows lifting my soul #haiku

@mamasanta: old woman / with shopping cart / pushing the wind #senryu #haiku

@poetryelf: our breathing flickers ~ the lone candle sitting on ~ the bedside table. #haiku

@KrisLindbeck: A rain-shining street / sun warming my back / Rainbow! | #haiku

@Brevity24: Vultures circle, descend / the carcass lies open / an empty parking spot. #haiku

@michelleshy: Oakland street greeting // Afternoon, Motherf*cker // Then nod and walk on // #senryu #Oakland

@wqueens7: commence. Precise beards, exact/ High-heels, march across in gowns:/ New York graduates/ #haiku (pic) http://znl.me/E67AG

@mamasanta: corrugating / the gold fish pond / a small breeze #haiku

@Adamfyre: Muse is slumbering ~ curled up like a lynx kitten ~ purring so softly. #haiku #senryu

@EliznMaeve: look: a tiny toad/ among the morning glories/ leaps from leaf to leaf #haiku #twaiku #smallpoem

@urbancrafter: You sing my soul's song, -- calling me like a siren; -- luring me to you. #haiku #love

@urbancrafter: Dreams Arising, I -- find myself fluttering by -- the garden of you. #haiku #love

@Tetsubishi: Dawning clarity - / this bright, blank space in my heart / is no one's but mine. #haikuchallenge 'clarity' #senryu

@twitwrit: brittle, fragile leaves / work all day to clear the yard / child jumps in pile; laughs! #haiku #haikutherapy

@urbancrafter: The sun makes the rose -- blush pink and blossom into -- her exquisiteness. #haiku

@BrentWoodcox: Eye-crossing boredom / Suddenly understanding/ Death as sweet release #haiku

@RavNLynx: turbulance rises/ relax in the flow of Love/ Angels stir the sky #haiku

@Christwitery: Once upon a time / in a land far, far away / close your eyes and dream /// #haiku

@wqueens7: Six elegant cracks/ Dance across the porcelain/ Matisse's toilet/ #haiku

@DigitalSalon: roaring down highways / eyes focusing straight ahead / see nothing at all #micropoetry #twaiku

@ScottC10: I sit in dialysis...all day thinking of these things...now of nothing else #haiku

@Etsujin_Haiku: Peace is not a myth / Love is not a fleeting thought / Joy has not vanished #haiku

@mamasanta: The nurse calls my mother / It's time, she says / to say goodbye / as my father in a coma / asks for his hat #tanka #kyoka

@verycosmic: The sun comes up as // I go down, but both of us // cast shadows on dreams. #haiku #poetry #nocturnalhaiku #micropoetry #goodnight

@Tetsubishi: before sunrise / yellowjackets huddle / to warm each other #haiku

@dougal: Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain. / Rain, rain, rain, rain, flood. Sunshine! / Crap - here comes more rain. #atlflood #haiku

@gavindecuir: Three pink mushroom clouds / hit the ceiling of the sky— / another sunset. #haiku

@Yojinbo: Autumnn in the air / Making summer's angry voice / A gentle whisper. #haiku #autumn

@verycosmic: the value of words, // the value of flesh, value // of perspective: mesh. #haiku #haikuchallenge

@morganabag: cloudmaker / has taken / my blue balloon #senryu

@wqueens7: http://twitpic.com/ixewe - Pride sometimes intrudes/ That bell cannot be un-rung/ "All is vanity"/ #haiku

@Paiku: One corner of goal / Tentatively defended / By spider’s web / #haiku #micropoetry

@AshiAkira: Haikus are arrows/ pierce through heart, not body/ Non-violent weapon #haiku #poetry

@AshiAkira: Walking in darkness/ guided by something within/ Strange power of poem #haiku #poem

@Tiny_Fiction: The value of Pi / signifigantly less than / the value of pie #senryu #haikuchallenge (value)

@Mamad: Hits the road running./ Moon nestled in clouds,/ setting in the west. #haiku

@Margybargy: Too soon wasps finish/ exploring rotten apples/ Summer turns away #haiku #micropoetry

@gennepher: I well overslept / Cats gave up, caught their breakfast / Rabbit on menu! #haiku

@edoowado: dry branch white flower / windmill on the horizon / sleepy butterfly #haiku

@djolder: A silence so deep / tonight the rain is a song / hanging by a thread. #haiku

@chaosincolor: Acid rain showers. / Toxic floods and hurricanes. / Ants down in the loo. #haiku

@Yojinbo: The truest measure / Of one's life is not its length, / But, rather, its depth. #haiku

@George9Writer: Night dark, thunderous/ Wondrous that all it reveals/ Are airquakes,long lights | #poetry #haiku

@poeticmindset: Pondering silver / word flow and pocket change clang / spend it on coffee #senryu #poetry

@poeticmindset: I lean in to her / a breath, long and deep, she turns / grabs bouquet walking #senryu #poetry

@gustoblusto: open window // curtains billow // morning sweet #haiku

@gustoblusto: outdoor dunny // cat's claw overgrown // kids on roof at sunset #haiku

@gustoblusto: Mum washing floor / on her knees / the only time she sang #haiku

@gustoblusto: Everything covered // in fine layers // of yesterday's dust #haiku

@matsuo_tako: artificial forest / so close to city streets - / still a relief #haiku #poetry

@urbancrafter: I wished on a star -- and it had the nerve to fall -- right out of the sky! #haiku

@johnniebgoode: #haiku Took mutts to park / Cutest lab puppy was there / Her heart bleeds for fetch

@gustoblusto: paper // unfolded // origami potential #zen #haiku

@Christwitery: On a windswept beach / gulls feast on gourmet litter / teatime at Torquay /// #haiku

@Bill312: reading in bed... / the cat's / wet nose | #haiku #senryu

@Christwitery: Shooting star flashes / fades out halfway through the night / dandelion wisps /// #haiku

@Christwitery: Dusty snake creature / picking yourself to fly to / distant locations /// #haiku http://bit.ly/pcmB8

@Lawrencejiko: ~ Pissing / watching / a Waterfall // #haiku #GarySnyder

@aileen2u2: you were never mine / to lose to the summer wind / my sad fickle friend #haiku

@aileen2u2: you are surfactant / wash away life's dirt and stains / you keep my heart clean #haiku

@wqueens7: http://twitpic.com/ivg1x - once upon a time/ There was a little princess/ In family business/ #haiku

@Lawrencejiko: ~ the Moon / had a cat's mustache / for a second // #haiku #Kerouac

@DigitalSalon: soft damp grass / dog rolling in moist green joy / the night air is warm enough #micropoetry

@poeticmindset: Asphalt jungle looms / with tin cans attached to hands / night sky, empty beds #senryu #haiku #poetry

@poeticmindset: Arms across stomach / lips painted red and puckered / somber eyes drifting #senryu #poetry

@AshiAkira: Cool air into lungs/ Sparrows chirping orders for/ fresh worms for breakfast #haiku #senryu

@Naumadd: Naumaddku: "Mist - through the meadow ... river without voice." - #haiku #poetry

@cre8tivkj: I'm drawing circles / While you're measuring your squares / Incompatible #Senryu #haiku

@individualchic: Memories of dust / wiped clean by bluest clear skies. / Now Sydney sparkles. #haiku #twaiku #Sydney

@KrisLindbeck: Toward sunset / that golden thunderhead / grows a silver crown / Shadow spans the sky / like treeshadow spans an avenue |#micropoetry

@BlinkTrinket: Nothing we value; the space inside the window; the hole in the jar. #haiku #haikuchallenge #senryu

@poeticmindset: Her eyes, cold and gray / whispers behind clouds of smoke / her brush strokes ease pain #senryu #poetry

@DavidRoe01: / sparkling sky / my heart beats / midnight / #haiku

@PaulinePelmet: Your beautiful sons / Their bodies ravaged by war / Their brave hearts intact #haiku #wounded #helpforheroes #afghanistan

@morganabag: the sky / swarms mosquitos / buzzing rain #haiku

@morganabag: she sleeps / in the open window / obsessed with the sky #haiku

@mplardie: I love haircut day. / I am glamorous until / tomorrow's shower. #haiku

@TaoWizard: I stand at the edge, The abyss unknown, unloved, Naught to do but jump. #haiku

@NYHaiku: the iron horse roars / faster and faster it goes / screeching to a halt #haiku #NYC #newyork

@dengary: cat / in the clock-- / no cuckoo today | #haiku #haikunoir #micropoetry #poetry

@haikunut: Between the pot pie / and the port, you taught me to / refuse even you. #poetwist #senryu

@twitwrit: Sydney Opera House / dust creeps into everything / silences divas #haiku

@dengary: my wordless neighbor / working long after dark /burying his old hound / the shovel biting the dirt / like a falling ax | #tanka #micropoetry

@dengary: back alley / milk truck and local cats / dawn parade | #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

@Tobuno: Seed of bodhi tree/ miniature tree within/ consciousness at rest. #haiku #Zen Buddhism

@dengary: autumn roadblock / the rutting stag / claims both lanes | #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

@ldwilkinson: First date— / she wears a Freudian slip / and Achilles heels. #senryu #micropoetry

@Naumadd: Naumaddku: "Whispers in the leaves - the Buddha ... of sweepers." - #haiku #poetry

@gennepher: Neighbour and bin-man / Each with puffed up chests, argue / Bin-man doesn't collect. #haiku

@gennepher: Two lorry drivers / driving in opposite directions / stop to chat. Tailbacks. #haiku

@franscud: I truly value / your opinion, it's just that / I like mine better ~ #haiku #haikuchallenge (value)

@Naumadd: Naumaddku: "Yellow bee, yellow be - we three searching ... for autumn." - #haiku #poetry

@mamasanta: Rufus, I tell my cat / in your next life / you'll come back as MY valet #senryu

NYHaiku: like yellow jackets / swarms of cabs buzz about town / stopping for nothing #haiku #NYC #NewYork

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