Haiku a Day

A Scroll Threw Life

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My unreasonable expectations have often led me down the path of irrational exuberance.

  • Dig

     

    I was buried deep

    Only then could I begin

    To dig myself out 







  • Swallow

     

    Summer day bike ride 

    Found a wet cement pillar 

    At sun baked streets end

    City park bubbler welcome 

    At last a cooling swallow 







  • Plunge

     

    I’m over my head

    Taken the plunge and let go

    Awash in living







  • Gusty

     

    Gusty branches groan 

    Willows sway and start to bud

    Coaxed into new life







  • Fix

     

    Claim they can fix it

    But that’s because they broke it

    Conservative scams







  • Myopic

     

    seeing past our nose

    myopic psychotic sight

    tainted focus world 







  • What

     

    Words left unspoken

    Remain forever unheard
    Now that’s not absurd






  • Dash

     

    Add a pinch of weird

    A dash from my stash. Voilà ! 

    A folly dollop













  • Flocculent

     

    My big sheep costume

    Has a cotton ball glue skin 

    Flocculent Fuzzy

    Is my Tik Tok nom de plume 

    Like. 👍🏻 Share. ⤴️ My big baaa baaa boom 🐑







  • Fresh

     

    Fresh laughter erupts

    As each new grift is put forth

    But it ain’t funny







  • Review

    My timeline review 

    A tour of the great future 

    I have behind me







     

  • Bloom

     

    before you harvest

    the bloom of your desires

    sow them deep then reap







  • Cleave

     

    Head knows it’s better

    To cleave our bond asunder 

    But heart will wonder







  • Green

     

    Me out in the woods

    Playing red light green light game

    With a skittish deer










  • Shell

     

    incognito me 

    used to hide the hidden me

    shell for real me







  • Fog

     

    public spewed phooey

    in a dense fog of hooey
    head swine oinks “Sooey!”





  • Attach

     

    Build your own meaning

    Attach it to what you will
    Make sure it’s secure





  • Mortar

     

    grinding decency

    to a pulp in our mortar
    with heinous pestle






  • Cabinet

     

    Cabinet tchotchkes

    Emporium of the dim

    Displayed for the world

    Unctuous eunuchs submit 

    Kneel and bob in unison  






  • Outlier

     

    A morning lie in

    Telling more lies to myself

    A real outlier 






  • February 2025

     






    Seems like yesterday
    Had a group the geezer griped
    To no one but he










     


    No one’s a buyer
    Yet everyone’s a merchant
    Selling vaporware







     




    With my heart on Fir
    Woke with an oak in my head
    Pulled up my Birches
    Kissed my dear Maple goodbye
    Undid the door Larch and left








     




    Entrails have spoken
    You cannot argue with them
    Auguries broken






    Media portrays 
    Lifestyle goals to entrap you 
    In a web of debt







     




    The glide in my stride

    The cut in my strut told all

    My next bounce was nigh







     




    The cosmic catfish

    Turned violet under it’s log

    Trouble was afin





     




    worldwide levels of

    the milk of human kindness

    is in red flag drought






     





    one person’s border
    is another person’s brink
    before crossing, think








     




    One more on my tab

    A round of liberation

    Last call for freedom







     



    Strive to overstand
    While trying to understand
    Leads to understood





     





    My trusty blackbird

    Biscuit tied to bush nearby

    Dear to me, oh my








     



    Couch cushion trenches

    A fort of fluffy pillows

    Turn off the TV

    Tabernacle of TruthHold

    During siege on decency 







     





    social distancing 
    on social media brings
    quiet quietude 






























     










    Seize the day as one
    Cherish the day when it’s done
    You know you have won
















     





    Life in the jetstream
    Grooving deep in the slipstream
    Of my waking dream







     




    Day out for the boy

    Overcoat over the coat

    Two layers of joy







     







    the world continues
    without us says the distant
    domino falling








     







    the world continues
    without us says the distant
    domino falling









     




    evergreen towers

    over my old family home

    cover story told

    a long ago Christmas tree

    was planted there and took root







     







    ingredients bought

    for big recipe inspire

    until they expire






     






    Political speak
    Two geese passing in the mist
    A distant honking

     





    I never confuse

    A flurry of actions with

    Productivity 








     






    enormity is

    established after two steps

    off the bluff of time







     




    raw emotions are
    like raw data and raw books
    need to cook them first


     






    Two foot jump in muck

    So deep frog found itself stuck

    Now needs a toad truck






     







    News dazzle design
    Camouflage facts instead of
    Smooth contour of truth








     





    A morning lie in

    Telling more lies to myself

    A real outlier 






  • Contour

     

    News dazzle design

    Camouflage facts instead of
    Smooth contour of truth







  • Muck

     

    Two foot jump in muck

    So deep frog found itself stuck

    Now needs a toad truck






  • Raw

     

    raw emotions are

    like raw data and raw books

    need to cook them first







  • Bluff

     

    enormity is

    established after two steps

    off the bluff of time






  • Flurry

     

    I never confuse

    A flurry of actions with

    Productivity 







  • Mist

     

    Political speak

    Two geese passing in the mist
    A distant honking






  • Inspire

     

    ingredients bought

    for big recipe inspire

    until they expire






  • Cover

     

    evergreen towers

    over my old family home

    cover story told

    a long ago Christmas tree

    was planted there and took root







  • Slurp

     


    A frog on a log
    Obsess on a midair fly
    Ribbit Ribbit (slurp)
















  • Domino

     

    the world continues
    without us says the distant
    domino falling






  • Joy

     

    Day out for the boy

    Overcoat over the coat

    Two layers of joy







  • Slipstream

     

    Life in the jetstream
    Grooving deep in the slipstream
    Of my waking dream






  • Cherish

     

    Seize the day as one
    Cherish the day when it’s done
    You know you have won















  • Quiet

     

    social distancing 
    on social media brings
    quiet quietude 












  • Fort

     

    Couch cushion trenches

    A fort of fluffy pillows

    Turn off the TV

    Tabernacle of TruthHold

    During siege on decency 






  • Blackbird

     

    My trusty blackbird

    Biscuit tied to bush nearby

    Dear to me, oh my







  • Understand

     

    Strive to overstand

    While trying to understand

    Leads to understood





  • Liberation

     

    One more on my tab

    A round of liberation

    Last call for freedom






  • Brink

     

    one person’s border

    is another person’s brink
    before crossing, think