Saturday, July 15, 2017

Haiku-like poems from A Samurai's Sunset Twisted

A Samurai’s Sunset Twisted 

as if sliced with a blade sunlit clouds bleed crimson twisted truth of pollution 

Kind then Cruel 

Paper leaflets rain down with less substance than the ashes of a butterfly -but their potential holds more weight than the half-life of two doomed cities. 

Early Blossoms, Early End (maybe)

in winter’s center
sakura grow happily 
global warming neh 

 A Dirty Closest in Fukuoka City: ( headline from a Japanese  newspaper)

Fukuoka City, the temperate 
princess of Japan's southern 
most island can seem an arctic Hades from the confines of a 4X6 closet. 

Arachnids and a Jazz Pianist at Blue Note

Fingers white like hunting spiders stalk across contrasting keys while blue notes fall on a bleeding stage. 

New Year’s Ritual 

Shinto shrine glows
torii gates blooded anew 
white hands washed of past  

The Denial of Existence 

in Copenhagen 
reality often fails us 
 just ignore and calculate* 

*Note: the extra three syllables are only real if you are observing this Haiku 

Tanka for a Sociopath 

Boy genius pianist? Maybe. 
Something in those eyes 
speak of mutilated puppies

in the basement.

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