TURTLE DOVED TULIP HAIKU

Turtle Doved Tulip?

Dew Glistening On Your Green

Stem Where Have You Been?

GIRAFFE'S BUTT HAIKU

Like The Eiffel Tower

A Giraffe's Long and Sleek Legs

Buck Up Its Big Butt.

FACE TO FACE IN THE TREE TRUNK HAIKU

Stuck Inside This Tree

We're Two Faces In The Trunk

Unable To Bark!

STRIPED TIGER HAIKU

Striped Tiger Tiger

Sitting On A Big Tree Trunk

Where Is William Blake?

RAINBOW-LIKE SUN HAIKU

A Rainbow-like Sun

Girdles A Mountain of Pines

Beneath A Dark Sky

OPHELIA'S HAIKU

Contemplating Death

What Did Ophelia Feel

Underneath the Stream?

TREE LEGS HAIKU

The Serpentine Roots
Of Hairless Bony Tree Legs
On A Nature Walk

COUNT THE FLOWERS HAIKU

Don't Forget To Smell

The Flowers Or To Count The

Hours In This Hell

DARK HAIKU

Not Getting Too Dark

Yet The Sky's Looking Pretty

Angry At Man (Kind?).

BILLOWS OF BIG CLOUDS HAIKU

Oh...looks like a storm's

Brewing billows of big clouds

White as Mary's lambs!

CERULEAN SKY HAIKU

Above Earth's mountains
Painted by a Pine tree's brush
Cerulean sky

OVER THE RAINBOW HAIKU

Over the rainbow

There ain't no pot of gold though

Just a pretty song

THE OCTOPUS

A cephalopod---

The writhing octopus---

Is utterly odd

And truly marvelous.

It will give you a

Friendly wink

Then squirt you with its

Murky ink.

Its jumbo peeper is pretty piercing

Whenever

It opens

To look at all of the other ocean

Denizens.

Its favorite meal the

Crab

Is something it will promptly

Grab.

A Cephalopod---

The writhing octopus---

Is utterly odd

And truly marvelous.

ARBOREAL BONES HAIKU

handiwork of gods

edifices of tall stones

arboreal bones

ETYMOLOGY OF ORCHID

Lovely Orchid

Whose name comes from

Greek Orkheos

&

Literally

Means Testicle!

Your root looks like

A testicle!

That is a

Ballsy name!

Or maybe it's

A name of shame!

But encomium

For your beauty is

Not diminished by

Such opprobrium.

HAIKU OF ODYSSEUS

I'm Odysseus!
This is my Kingdom's Doorstep!
Its Doorbell is this Wave!

TENTACLE-LIKE WEEDS HAIKU

TENTACLE-LIKE WEEDS
OR THE SPRY LEGS OF SPIDERS
WATCHED BY ONE WHITE EYE

VARIATIONS on In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound

I.
The ammunition of these guns in the war;
Corpses on a bleak, red earth.


II.
The appreciation of these buns in the oven;
Wieners on a warm, soft dough.

III.
The plummeting of these yellow leaves from the tree;
Blades on a dusty, brown ground.

IV.
The blooming of these petals in the foliage;
Faces on the soft, green grass.

CHILDHOOD RIVER HAIKU

TWIN-TOWERED PINE TREES
MIGHTY POUDRE RIVER FLOWED
THROUGH MY CHILDHOOD

SILKY DOMICILE HAIKU

GET THAT CAMERA

OFF MY SILKY DOMICILE!

I'M NO CHIMERA!