Some Haiku I Have Written

[atiguhya padma]

Sea-swept beach-like clouds
Across ocean-cold deep sky
Static, small am I

Haemorraghing sky
Cloud suture, wintry care-kiss
Killing time in me

Slow car, fast river
Fording place a whoosh of buzz
Safely we sit still

Frozen sky, slate clouds
Skeletons stuck in the mud
My warm heart feels green

Opaque raindrop falls
Tears of life, tears of pleasure
Enter the unknown

Our Universe:
A faceless face, eyeless eyes
Sees all but itself

Skylark hovering
Like love in the human heart
Singing "short is life"

Trees crash into cars
Loves and lives like stars explode
From debris comes life

A weather warning:
It might rain and trees might fall
Just life as it is.

Darkness smothers earth
We are like fish in Ocean
A billion stars

Rotting cadaver
Earth death. Meat for hungry ghosts
Maggots dance with life.

Reality is
Total impermanence
This will never change

Yoga class today
But I'm stuck in the station
Not still, not moving.

[azmuse]

got out of shower to turn computer back on.
i hope you have the decency one day to get yourself published.

...liked "skeletons stuck in the mud" best. at first didn't like everything put out at once; would have preferred to absorb each alone, like a gourmand. then realized they all make a chapbook atmosphere when given in handfuls.

[atiguhya padma]

Azmuse,

Thank you for your appreciation. Yes I can see the chapbook idea. I used to like reading aphorisms, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and Samuel Butler were my favourite writers of these sometimes witty, sometimes deep and occasionally wise thoughts. I think haiku (and chapbooks) are similar. It is often difficult to not let logic or bias interfere with the creativity process. Haiku forces you to play around with logic, syntax and structure. It is probably the concise nature of the product that ensures creativity in the production.

I've never really thought of publication. Its far too courageous and hard-working for me! Maybe one day I'll generate enough energy to give it a bash.

Once again, thanks.

Atiguhya Padma

[fayefaye]

I think one day we should publish the best 'personal poetry' poems from the site, with permission from the authors, of course. azmuse-you're drifting... should be in there for sure! along with this poem, padma.

[azmuse]

*no comment due to extreme embarassment and envy of emily d.

But! (never shuts up for long) publishing poems from this site is an excellent idea, faye :)

[Anna G. Appel]

"Sea-swept beach-like clouds
Across ocean-cold deep sky
Static, small am I"

I do like this one alot, it really catches the off proportion of objects. In this case it is you to everything else. Very nice.