April 29, 2011

haiku - NaHaiWriMo ~ doors

NaHaiWriMo prompt for April 28 was "doors"


revolving doors
I am not the one to tell you
to decide

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revolving doors
it was never a question
of if

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revolving doors
I slip in an out
of a dream

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revolving doors -
the world is
and is not

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revolving doors -
I too am rooted in
perpetual movement

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revolving doors -
dandelions grow and die
in the quantum field

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revolving doors
this time I can't both
stay and leave

April 24, 2011

haiku / ku experiments

Updated: "funhouse" - experimental hai(ku) - click here or use the "Funhouse" tab

April 20, 2011

haiku / ku experiments

Updated "Series" with "crows eye" - experimental (hai)ku - click here

For a Danish version click here

April 19, 2011

haiku - NaHaiWriMo ~ wind

NaHaiWriMo April 19: wind


making good for my absence
I curl a wind
around a graveyard dafodil

:::

spring wind
in a pink housecoat
the neighbor flips fags into the pond

:::

carried by the wind
the noisy arrival
of the first commonswifts

:::

April wind -
I'm through reporting
your whereabouts

:::

making room for the wind
I clear a table
with a view

:::

April wind ...
it could be
this simple

April 16, 2011

haiku - NaHaiWriMo

NaHaiWriMo prompt for April 16

"birds of prey"

buzzard
now I'm glad
I'm not a mouse

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an eagle
in our Coat of Arms -
this land of sparrows

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funeral bells
the kestrel takes off
before the sermon

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sleepless
the owls, I imagine,
hoot in morse-codes

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by the rails
a young buzzard sizing up
the 2 o'clock train

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lunchbox of tofu-tuna
vegan peguins
trying hard

April 09, 2011

haiku - NaHaiWriMo ~ music

I've been participating in NaHaiWriMo (National Haiku Writing Month - which seems to have turned out a rather internal event). Each day there's a given subject. Today the subject was "music". I wrote more than I published on the Facebook site, so here they are:

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night had a voice -
now even darkness
is a little darker


(Indian singer Bhimsen Joshi passed away January 24 2011)

Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhimsen_Joshi
Sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gGkUboxv8E


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walking the rain dogs -
Alice in red shoes
on Skid Row

(Tom Waits)

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disintegrating cities -
to be sane in an
insane world

(Einstürzende Neutbauten)

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Lachrymae Antiqua -
I've got recent tears to
pull on your string


through the lachrymal canal
we dance a pavane
of the slowest kind


(John Dowland: Lachrymae Antiqua / Flow My Tears http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkRrzAo9Wl4 )



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Tiger Mountain -
am I an airport in
another green world



Neroli -
I am a stamen
catching echoes



thursday afternoon -
driving in Dali's car
for the equatorial stars

(Brian Eno)

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nothing out of place -
I hold up a mirror
for the sun

(Haydn: Die Sonnen-quartette op. 20)

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head over heels -
I draw angels
from a milk calf skin

(Cocteau Twins)

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lost river -
I catch a sound
and it changes


unmapped
this coiling river stream -
now: a starfall

(Tangerine Dream: Rubycon)

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the right side of the moon
a Bach Cantata
embedded in silver foil

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the moon in a tux -
I'm way past
speaking

(Tuxedomoon: In a Manner of Speaking)

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rivers of blood
a future cathedral built
with five voices

(Carlo Gesualdo, late renaissance Italian composer:Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Gesualdo ,
Sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZAs9LjJAHU&feature=related used harmonics otherwise not seen/heard until the 1920's. Killed his wife & her lover, mutilated their bodies and hanged them on the outside wall of his castle)

April 08, 2011

April 07, 2011

Basho & Zappa - haiku

Zoot!
damn frog
won't jump or sing!

:::


smoking with Basho
Zappa notices the lack
of wah-wah pedals

:::


not quite into
tribal etiquette – Basho headbangs
to a Zappa concert

:::


12-note jam -
Basho and Zappa wait
for the rats to cool

:::


absentminded
Basho and Zappa hauls herbs
into a saxophone

:::


Kyoto
Basho and Zappa can't use
Mastercards


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Dansk version her

Danish version here

April 03, 2011

haiku - penguins

forming a flesh-wall
penguins smile before
a G8 summit meeting

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April fools day -
penguins line up
War Council photo shoot

:::

signing papers
before Armageddon
smoking penguins

:::

sleeping
in softdrink vending machines
guerilla penguins

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Creation is accomplished
in three shifts
hardworking penguins

:::

paranoia follows -
the mass of copulating
penguins

:::

pulling the strings
of big politics
incognito penguins

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taking their revenge
on jelly-bears - penguins
raiding a candy store

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