Haiku a Day

A Scroll Threw Life

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

  • Formula


    Profound formula 
    X-rays times Y-rays equal
    Ludicrous thought rays


  • Utopia

    Photo by David Bartus on Pexels.com

    Pandora's Box was
    hidden in a safe under
    the base of the place
    called Utopia; but still
    it was found by the humans

  • Flip

    Craiyon
    a fortuitous 
    well timed flip can make or break
    society's yoke

  • Withdrawal

    A.I. image generated from tanka text of human figure scrunched up on a couch
    Craiyon
    I write small poems
    While next to me on the couch
    World's thrashing about
    In night sweat terror detox
    Reality withdrawal

  • Garden

    Large metallic sunflower sculpture in a tangle of natural growth prairie grasses. 
    It's the gardeners choice
    On the type of garden grown 
    If peace or strife's sown

  • Ring

    A.I. image generated from haiku text of a watch with wheels within wheels
    Craiyon
    so much happening 
    nothing said seems to ring true
    wary world watches

  • Cry

    Photo by Marte Nyhammer on Pexels.com
    as the earth leans in
    cry not for shrinking daylight
    embrace the darkness

  • Cynic

    Photo by Ron Lach on Pexels.com
    Geezer cynic shouts
    "Let's get ready to grumble!"
     Complaining ensues

  • Excuse

    A.I. image generated from tanka text of an abstract human figure seated at a table with hand over heart it's with a child on each side
    Craiyon
    Excuse for being
    proud of my humbleness and
    character flaws with
    wanton whimsy because of
    so much salt rubbed in life's wound

  • Realm

    A.I. generated image from haiku text of a metal coin with an figure head imprint
    Craiyon
    Once beyond the pale
    Becomes the coin of the realm
    Frenzied fiat force

  • Cathartic

    A.I. abstract creature
    Craiyon
    Not so cerebral
    My taste more towards cathartic
    These things I cherish

  • Soup

    A.I. image generated from haiku text of circular viscous spark
    Craiyon
    primordial soup
    a little dab'll do ya
    greasy kid stuff spark

  • Surprises

    A.I. image generated from haiku text of person with eyes closed
    Craiyon
    I keep my eyes shut
    Reverse blink on occasion 
    Surprises abound

  • Doyen

    A.I. image generated from haiku text of snake like critter with a imperious face
    Craiyon
    "Got em riled up good."
    The Doyen told the Doyenne
    "Time to slither out"

  • Shed

    A.I. image generated from haiku text of loose skinned naked human form
    Craiyon
    naked and displayed
    murder primates of earth have
    shed their human skin

  • Shape

    Craiyon
    Each choice. Each moment.
    Molds a moment of its own.
    Shape-shifting streaming.

  • Vessel

    grounded corporeal
    vessel on shopping mall reef
    of consumerism

  • Skin

    Photo by RDNE Stock project on Pexels.com
    I've noted that when
    a conservative bangs on
    about having skin
    in the game it's always our
    skin in their rigged corrupt game

  • Creep

    Craiyon
    creep, the creeping creep's
    cootie constellation choir
    croaks conspiracies

  • Blurring

    Future blends with past
    Appreciate the blurring 
    Moment by moment

  • Chaos

    A.I. image generated from haiku text of an abstract anime type person with fibrous tentacles out of mouth filling the space around.
    Craiyon
    better to transcend
    a cherished life of chaos
    than to rewind it

  • Tome

    A.I. image generated from haiku text of person seated under a great big book with tentacles of fire suggested in abstract background
    Craiyon
    seems when I uplift
    reality windshear sends
    a tailspin tomb tome

  • Ouch

    A sketchy stick figure blue bike drawing
    my first full size bike
    pieced together from spare parts
    rolling chimera

    a full sized Schwinn frame
    spray painted sky blue, leopard 
    print banana seat

    high rise handlebars 
    a big rear view mirror clamped on
    for my first test ride

    looking in mirror
    and not where I was going
    fell off, mirror broke

  • Spring

    A.I. image generated from haiku text of a stylized tubular spring
    Craiyon
    test the tensile strength
    of a spring that will become 
    a long hot summer

  • Winona

    Frame house on a tree filled lot on a city street circa 1930 
    Mother was forty. 
    Father was fifty when I 
    was born. The caboose.

    He worked on railroad.
    All the livelong day. Math says
    I was his present.

    Gift given on his
    fiftieth birthday. That was
    my moms family joke.
      
    Siblings said I was 
    left on doorstep by gypsies.
    Children seen. Not heard.

    Not the center of 
    anyone's universe then
    Except for grandma

    Mother went to work
    At factory down the street
    Never felt neglect

    Nor did I feel poor
    Hungarian grandmother 
    watched over me well.

    Six of us lived in
    Two bedroom home. One bathroom
    One tub. No shower.

    Time dragged at young age
    Yet house cleared out soon enough
    Siblings move on out.

    Leaving me alone
    Youngest still fifty years on
    Still not seen or heard

  • Splinter

    A.I. image generated from haiku text. A sort of stylized digital mandala in reds and blues
    Craiyon
    words splinter into
    bytes then spew into the maw
    of quantum a.i.

  • Cough

    Photo by Gustavo Fring on Pexels.com
    mental cough known as
    a scoff will expectorate
    airborne balderdash

  • Fly

    A.I. image generated from haiku text of three insectile type images on a slat wall.
    Craiyon
    transparency for
    some means swatting every fly
    on the wall to quash

  • Enormity

    Photo by En Turista on Pexels.com
    enormity is
    established after two steps
    off the bluff of time

  • Marrow

    A.I. image generated from haiku text of a very nasty looking snarling bone yard dog crayon.com
    Craiyon
    In dog eat dog world 
    Feel the boneyard hounds snarling
    Deep in your marrow