For the longest time, I just listed my haikus on my Other Published Works page with my poems and other stuff, but I started posting more haikus – to eventually, hopefully, fill out a collection – and it seemed like a good idea to just make a separate page for them.
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I don’t know what 2024 political candidate I could be talking about here.
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It’s easy coming up with excuses to not write.
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This was a variation of another haiku I had written.
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I don’t know why, but often when I have a splitting headache I’ll decide to relax by watching a movie, which you’d think would make things worse. But sometimes, it doesn’t.
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It’s been years since I wrote this, but I’m going to guess that I was trying to come up with something to write a haiku about, and my feet were wet. That’s probably where this came from.
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I probably wrote this while I was sick, and only had enough energy to watch movies and shows.
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I can’t remember, but I think I wrote this after some bland meeting where I used to work.
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Pretty self-explanatory.
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Not that long ago, if you told someone “I binged an entire season last night,” they’d have no idea what you were talking about.
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This is my default Fourth of July haiku.
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I was looking for a haiku to post around the Fourth of July, and this seemed to fit. I don’t remember the original reason I wrote it.
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Somedays, you just have to work with whatever embers you have.
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Unfortunately, this is an all-too-common occurrence for me.
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It’s probably a safe bet that I came up with this sometime while I was under the weather.
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A nice, poetic view of dreams, I guess.
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Somedays, the sentences do become novels. But most days they barely count as sentences. But life continues.
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For some reason, the phrase “unpaid assassin” came to mind, and I knew I needed to use it in something.
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The opening of many movies.
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I’ve had too many days of just going through the motions.
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I think we’ve all, unfortunately, have experienced this.
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This has happened … many, many times.
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What kind of accident would do that?
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It’s not the best, but what do you expect for a last minute Earth Day haiku?
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My “To Read” book pile would agree with this.
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I wrote this years ago. I don’t remember what exactly led to it, but I was probably stuck at work on a nice day.
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I wrote this at work. I don’t think it was raining, but my coworker was in a mood, for justifiable reasons.
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Given that this year April Fool’s Day was the day after Easter, it seemed obvious to combine the two.
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I do think writing is an attempt at immortality.
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I was on my lunch break at work and I was trying to ease my aching back. So I wrote that down, and it didn’t take long to finish this.
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A sadly accurate view of too many.
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This sums him up pretty well.
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Every four years.
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I think a lot of people can relate to this.
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Some years ago, a writing group I was in put together a little collection of stories, poems, and artwork. I ran out of time writing a story, so I submitted a couple of haikus. This was one. I’m trying to post more haiku, but I don’t have that many new ones, so I just reposted this one.
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It seems like half the websites I go to show me ads, while the other half are like DISABLE YOUR AD BLOCKER, OR ELSE!
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I first posted this some fifteen years ago on MySpace. I figured it deserved a reposting.
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A somewhat spooky haiku for the spooky season.
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I can’t remember when I wrote this, but it was probably during a power outage.
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It was the Fourth of July and I remembered I had a firework haiku, so I reposted it.
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I used to work in a lab, and one of the things I enjoyed doing was running some test that took twenty minutes where I didn’t have to do anything, so I’d just go outside on nice days and walk around for a bit before going back to work.
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I wrote this because it was a warm spring and I wanted to get started gardening. And then it rained for a week.
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Life imitating art?
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It would be faster to just read it.
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If you don’t have a Project Mushroom account, here it is: temperatures rise / fires and storms and flooding – but / the economy
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It would be faster to just read it.
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Ew, a political haiku.
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Probably an accurate description of the internet.
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The writing group I’m part of has started putting together a little collection of poems, artwork, short stories. I wanted to do a short story, but I ran out of time so I just submitted two haiku.
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The writing group I’m part of has started putting together a little collection of poems, artwork, short stories. I wanted to do a short story, but I ran out of time so I just submitted two haiku.
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I was in a coffee shop to do some writing, and this just came out.
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This was just something I came up with after thinking about working in the garden.
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One of the writing groups I’m in had a poetry reading event that started a few hours after the bombings in Boston. This was just something I whipped out that night.
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The writing group I’m part of got the idea of putting together a little collection of poems, artwork, short stories. I wanted to do a poem relating to writing, and I came up with this haiku.
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This stems from a real – and somewhat unpleasant – experience.
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I have too many ideas, thus I wrote a haiku about that.
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My internet often goes out when it is windy, but I was unsure if other people had the same problem. So I switched it to cable.
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What else do you do when there’s a “deep blanket of snow?”
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We’ve had some storms lately, and this seemed to fit in with that and Halloween.
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My internet connection isn’t always reliable. There are days where it seems it connects for a couple of minutes, only to lose it for five or ten minutes. It’s annoying, and at times extremely frustrating. So I turned part of that into a haiku.
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I had just returned from a bus trip out west where I saw numerous mountains not capped with snow but at least with some snow on them and there were a few times where I had a nearly dead camera battery
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I was having lunch at Subway trying to think of something quick to write for my newsletter. The AC was on a bit high, and I joked about it was freezing my ideas. So I came up with this.
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I needed to write something quick for my newsletter. Given the weather, this is what I came up with.
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I had the idea of leftover turkey coming back to life, so I wanted to do something with zombie turkey.
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It had been a rather rainy month, so I wrote an haiku about it.
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The other day I was watching a marathon of episodes of this one show that I watch for fun. What sucked was that every commercial break they had a promo – or two – for their latest “reality” show. It made me feel a tad bitter because I spend so much time crafting stories with plot and character, whereas these schmucks just get drunk and yell at people and make it on TV.
And now – as I’m typing this – I’m somewhat watching a movie that’s beloved by millions. I probably haven’t seen it for ten years, and it’s not that surprising because it sucks. I mean there are more holes than plot. Here I am, trying to write good stories, and crap like that is on TV.
Now if I could turn my bitterness into words on a page.
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Have you ever woken up one morning to realize that it was the end of the month? That happened to me. I never got around to writing a story for my newsletter, and I didn’t want to do nothing, so I took five minutes and wrote out a haiku about not having enough time.
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Some time ago, I came up with the phrase “brick and steel leech” as a poetic description of a place of work. It’s not that I hate my job, but it feels like so much of my life is being sucked away by this ominous … thing. And recently at work we had things “shuffled” and I was moved to a new lab. I’m not complaining (as such) but I was comfortable where I was. I mean, I knew how to look busy and how to hide my mistakes. Now I have to relearn all of that. So this month I was feeling kinda down about work and started working on a story dealing with the “brick and steel leech” idea, but I didn’t really get that far with it. On an entirely different matter, I was going through a book of Ansel Adams photographs. As often happens with me, the two ideas fused, and since I was short on time, I wrote a haiku.
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This just shows a fear I have of life getting in the way of my writing.
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These are just four haiku I put up on my MySpace page.
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It’s a scifi haiku. What can I say about seventeen syllables.
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I was just playing around, trying to write a Fourth of July haiku, and this is what I came up with. Since it is so short, I’ll just put it here.
Brilliant sky flowers
Breaking the still, silent night
With blooms of thunder
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