Dew

Life
ethereal
as morning dew

For Haiku Heights

Blood

violence in
the graveyard
blood on the crypts

For Haiku Heights - Prompt #309

Prophecy

radioactive seas
the prophecy
is complete

Parade

toddlers walk
like ducklings
under blazing maples

Upside

70s in October
the upside
of global warming

Autumn

Autumn near at hand
V'd geese head south by southwest
for sweet nisparos

For Carpe Diem - Prompt 307

Chrysanthemum

"To Life!"
as he drinks from
the Chrysanthemum cup

For Carpe Diem - Prompt 306

Summer's End

tractor in the barn
already bundled
the last straw

For Carpe Diem - Prompt 305

Opportunists

gulls sideling up to
a girl on the seawall
with a sandwich

Sex-Starved Squirrel

he'd rather play
with his chestnuts
than bury them

For Carpe Diem - Prompt 298

Genji's Song

evening face
darkened
by pyre smoke

For Carpe Diem - Sept. 15 - Distillation

Becoming

on the cushion
becoming who I am
outcome unknown

Snowstorm

snowstorm
the only time things
are black and white

For Carpe Diem Sept. 11

Elsie

bovine love:
something in the way
she moos
attracts me like
no udder lover

Impermanence

a cloud
there just a moment ago
a life

Getting Old

ancient Monadnock
you've vanquished me
and shown me my age

For Haiku Heights

Post Road

newly laid asphalt
the car glides
through granite hills

Arachnoid Travel

a single silken thread
drawn across the windshield
spider road trip

Senior Housing

head-sized Hybiscus
bloom outside
while they wither within

Quasi

chill out Quasimodo
don't get your
back in a hunch

For Woven Dreams - Prompt 23

By The Sea

alone at the beach
like a wave
mind turns in on itself

For Haiku Heights - Prompt 267

Sabbe Satta

gray-centered puffs
robin-egg sky
may all beings
be happy

Eat Up

unguarded bag of chips
dinner bell
for gull nation

Buddies

toddler reaches out
from his stroller
low five

Companions

walking in the woods
gnats, mosquitoes, bees
are my entourage

4-15

pressure cooker bombs
flesh rending shrapnel
Christ was not the last
to die for our sins

Printed in Four and Twenty - July, 2013

Impermanence

snowflake world
never the same
twice

Printed in Issa's Untidy Hut - July, 2013

Deja-vu

my long-dead uncle
alive again at the beach
right down to the nose

For Haiku Heights - Prompt #267

Truth-teller

no need for robes
the cricket chirps
the Dharma

The Gift

red-streaked
clouds at dawn
insomniac's reward

Butterfly

butterfly
in the living room
outside in

Hot Dog Horror

startled 5-year-old
the hot dog plucked from her hands
seaside scavenger

Gull Speak

when flight
is not an option
glide
the gulls say

More of Less

no 'more'
no 'less'
no 'thing'
to be either

For Sunday Scribblings - Prompt 379

Intuition

it's more than a feeling
a degree costs thousands
in tuition

For Carpe Diem - Prompt 255

Faith

heaven is the next
(life, moment) stop
it's not up to
some vengeful god

Mind Songs

my internal radio
it won't need batteries
until I do

Time Trilogy

time creeps forth
   yet flies
and is always on my side

time diminishes everyone
   but it ravages only those
who see it that way

who has
   the time
for time

Haiku Heights - Prompt time

Transformation

to turn curds into cheese
and 'no way' to 'yes, please'
all you need is a squeeze

For Haiku Heights - Prompt 265

Wrinkle

daylight savings
a wrinkle
in time

For One Single Impression - Prompt #280

Swing

from heaven to hell
I am
the king of swing

For Haiku Heights - Prompt - Swing

Bone

haiku:
cutting to
the bone

For Sunday Scribblings - Bones

Summer Rain

a blessing
cool summer rain
beyond measure

For Haiku Heights - measure

Demon

when demons come
make friends with them
they hate that

For OSI

Sand

late afternoon
the gulls reclaim the sand
from lobster-skinned tourists

For Haiku Heights - Prompt 'Sand'

The Myth

separate selves -
the myth
of fingerprints

Haiku Heights Prompt - fingerprints

48th Anniversary

Her: Are you ready to trade me in yet?
Me: Of course not. I can't drive the
        new models.

Firefly

the firefly blinks on ... off ...
childhood semaphore
for joy and wonder

For Haiku Heights - Prompt 260
Accepted for Four And Twenty - Aug. 2013

The Monk

the old monk asked:
have you settled the matter
of your death?

Autumn

Autumn near at hand
V'd geese head south by southwest
for sweet nisparos

For Carpe Diem prompt 234

Sunflower

cobalt sky at dusk
sunflower turns moonflower
lonely lake loon calls

For Carpe Diem - June 29

Omniscience

know-it-alls
are rarely
omniscient

For Poets United

Perfume

salty, sweet sweat
the pungent perfume
of passion

For Woven Dreams - Prompt 20

Wrinkles

wrinkles
the roadmap of a life
well-travelled

For OSI - Prompt 2777

Processing

in the process
of processing
truth often becomes
something else

For Woven Dreams - Prompt 19 - Processing

Move

the small boat moves downstream
drifting leisurely on the slow current
sightseeing on the river

For Poets United

Haiku Heights Prompt 256 - Ripples

principal's speech
boredom ripples through
the Class of 2013

6wordchallenge

she's angry
he smiles
bad move

Dash - OSI Prompt #276

the dash:

without it we could never be

over-anxious or under-appreciated.

Woven Dreams - Prompt #18 - Memories

memories
misshapen fragments
of the life
I think I've lived

Haiku Heights - Prompt 254

Some say it's really not moral
for one to have wives that are plural
   but it seems to me
   it's about what you see
it's fine if you live where it's rural.

Haiku Heights - Prompt 253

Fascinated by her ovum
they called her
egg-centric

The Truth

the truth
is always
hit or myth

Insomnia

wide awake
the night storm rages
inside and out

Concert

high school concert
the screech song
perfectly played

Life

windblown
just passing
through

Grass

smell of a newly mowed lawn
just can't get enough
of that cut green stuff

He's Weak

his bladder is weak
some help he should seek
in order to stem the leak

Pretty Girl

naked arms clothed
in thin, white scars
she's left-handed

Flow

Florence moved effortlessly
across the dance floor -
it was the flow of Flo

Beach morning

a Siren
on the seawall
sings to the sea

The Cause

hemorrhoids -
likely caused by having
your head too far up your ass

Desire

house dreamin' -
give a left arm
for a second bathroom

Spring thaw

turquoise cascades
freed from winter's grasp
on their way

For my Honey

Swatting the air
in vain
let it bee

Retreat

silence so thick
I can hardly see
my ego

Gull-ible

perched on the seaway
Jonathan
is that you?

Poseidon's Tentacle

arching over the seawall
   shattering
spewing salty flesh on my check

On the Beach

On a rocky New England beach
the waves recede
to the sound of applause

Smokin'

a joint at dawn
here comes the sun
doobie doobie

For R.D.

straight talk
   ironically twisted
you left us your soul

Placing an Order

eggcream in the South
   the question: sunnyside up
or over easy?

Writer's Dilemma:

is there anything
   to say?
am I the one to
   say it?

Last Sounds

hospice
   singers
Freebird!

The Error

Gun
   unattended
life
   ended

The Buzz

swatting the air
    in vain
let it bee

Julie

Vermont fields
     echoed
in her eyes

For Lefty

missing:
    one white paw
and their hearts

The Old Newsman

My phone vibrates in my pocket
another tweet coming in

I keep it near my testicles
it doubles the pleasure

at my age, everything helps.

I don't tweet out, at least not much
I mostly tweet in - CNN, Seacoastonline -
AP, The Dalai Lama, Holy Rascals

It's an old newsman's habit;
I keep in touch so you don't have to.

"Spring into Summer"
   the worn sign on the old motel says,
but I'd rather Fall

faux-piphany:
     when you finally realize
what everyone else already knows

fingers in pocket
     counting off the syllables
beach-walking haiku

dad died
communication
unchanged

Printed in From the Gean - July, 2013