Haiku and Hyperku
A few years ago I got into writing haiku. (Well, haiku-like poems to be precise. Real haiku is written in Japanese) I don't do it much anymore, but saved the ones I liked. Here they are:
Trade my fresh green beans
for your plump calamari
summer squid pro quo
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Remember the mills
that once lined these riverbanks
eating sweat and dreams
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Single pine siskin
in a flock of goldfinches
does he feel alone?
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Cosy as two mice
in a shot glass, we waited
for the rain to end
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I also played around with something I call hyperku, but I'm not sure I like the idea:
Click on words to find
our lost imagination
follow links, like sheep
I envy the fox
the ultimate Zen creature
always here and now
No new year's resolutions;
no need to start again, fresh
Trapped by possessions
we cry for freedom, for things
a fox does not want
Eat, drink, mate, sleep, that's it
for a fox this is enough
I envy the fox
but I want to be human
preferring to yearn.