Sunday, December 30, 2007

Just pretend I didn't tear your world apart

rainboots dusty
but not
forgotten

"I Can't Wait Until I Go to a Place Where It Rains Again!"


sharp intakes of breath
walking out in the cold -
fifty degrees

"They're Not Used to This Kind of Weather"



Christmas ham
reduced
to sandwich duty



The last one gets no title. So take that. Tucson's almost done, and Greenville's almost here! What mixed feelings.

Friday, December 28, 2007

I know I need to write more

that "this"
made me
flutter

"Eeeee!"

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Merry Christmas!

I got this sweet Haiku anthology for Christmas, so I thought I'd share some of my favorites so far...

unexpected news
she stands staring into
the cutlery drawer

-- Dee Evetts


I look up
from writing
to daylight.

-- William J Higginson (Emily, this made me think of you... and WM)


sun & moon
in the same sky
the small hand of my wife

-- Gary Hotham


he removes his glove
to point out
orion

-- Raymond Roseliep

Monday, December 24, 2007

apparently
warm weather
still breeds germs

"I Get a Cold Now??"


panic -
last minute shoppers
trample through sparse aisles

"Christmas Eve Shopping Should Be an ESPN Sport"


scattered friends
reunited for short spurts
i love technology

"I Love Technology"


MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE. Seriously.
boisterous voices
gossip over fast food
on china plates

"My Family Is So Weird"


paper bags with candles
and cactus wrapped in lights -
a desert christmas

"I'm Not Dreaming of a White Christmas"

Sunday, December 23, 2007

I like when musicians are friends and collaborate or mention the others in their songs. Like how Conor Oberst yelled, "M Ward for president!" on the Late Late Show, or how the Innocence Mission girl sings on Denison Witmer's album.

I'm starting to get bored... and I attribute this solely to me not having a car. I can only play Scrabulous so many times before I run out of turns, and I can knit only so many rows before I get tired of the monotony. Of course I'd start to anticipate school my LAST SEMESTER. Blah.

big white bed
time spent in dreams
whether waking or asleep

"My Room Has A Big White Bed"

Harder than it looks

winter reunion -
forgotten friends
tell far away stories

"Who Knew Rock Band Would Be So Entertaining?"


surprise chill -
when the light fades
so does laughter

"Desert Nights Are Cold!"

Two are all I can do tonight. Goodnight.

Saturday, December 22, 2007

oh life

I already need to catch up! Here are the two from yesterday.

barnes and noble
comforting, cozy, christmas -
flirting over harry potter

"I Would Marry A Librarian"


waking up sick
you'd think i would quit -
a decision is made

"Say No To Drugs"


Also, I told my mom I wanted haiku stuff for Christmas and she asked, "Like the poetry?"
"Yeah. I've decided to become obsessed with it."
"Ok." She said this as if it was the most normal thing in the world that I would randomly decide to become obsessed with something. And maybe it is. I love my family.

Friday, December 21, 2007

Cash prizes?

muddy, frozen earth...
memory of orion
when his belt alights us

"I Like to Think about That Night"

I first wrote haiku type #2 in the strict traditional Japanese 17 syllable way, but as I've been looking at more and more American haiku, I've begun to want to imitate their not so anal syllable count. Here I tried a more relaxed version, not obsessively counting the beats. I just might switch, but I haven't decided yet. This is only off by one syllable anyway, so who knows what I'll decide.

Also in haiku news, I subscribed to a daily haiku poem a day, and I stumbled across a haiku contest that I might enter. A British haiku website is hosting it, with entry fees and cash prizes! I don't have to enter any until May, though, so I might try to find one that ends a little sooner.

The other haikus are coming, don't worry.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

They Go Wild

#1

always on the go
food, friends, traffic, shopping, fam -
forget to survive

"Tucson Life Makes Me Feel Like a Grandma"

#2

nervous and anxious -
don't forget about me, or
think of someone else

"Sometimes I Get Worried"

#3

anticipation -
the mrs. enfolded us
with real life love

"She Missed Us, I Can Tell"

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Obsession

Watching Ace of Cakes on the Food Network is one of my many joys. It makes me wish that I was an indie-hip pastry chef that went to art school and could make lifelike armadillo cakes and shoot clay pigeons out of the sky with skill. Anyway. One of my favorites on the show, Anna (I know!), is awesome. Along with her amazing decorating abilities, she's also obsessed with Scrabble. Mary Alice, another fave, explained, "She had to become obsessed with something for a class and she chose Scrabble. I don't know, it was art school."

So this sparked a little idea in my own head. "EMILY," I yelled. "Do you want to become obsessed with something with me??" Her true friendship which has already been made official 50 times over received another badge of honor when she said without hesitation, "Yes!!"

She chose Clark Gable - I chose haiku. Our homework assignments over break are thus:

Emily:

- Watch a different Clark Gable movie every 3 days - blog a review
- Once a week write a blog on Clark Gable the person - who was he, what was he about, etc?


Anna:

- Write 3 haiku a day on blog -
Haiku #1 - About day
Haiku #2 - "Cryptic Away Message Haiku"
Haiku #3 - Specific moment in day
- Once every two weeks blog on history of Haiku - famous writers, where it originated, etc.

So here I go.

#1

face smashed against pane
recycled air stifling lungs -
home seems far away

"Don't Think You Can Catch up on Sleep on a Plane"

#2

i waited all day
so i could play in our game -
i shall dominate

"Scrabble is for Winners"

#3

viva wasn't there
my heart collapsed within me -
laughing, it arrived

"Sometimes I Have a Bad Memory"

Annnnd I'm a nerd, but this came to me on the plane. It's not a haiku.

if earth were a patchwork
it would hang on the wall of a navaho
whose face is carved in mountains