THE HOO OF HAIKU

Thursday, 28 February 2008

How come


Aren’t you smaller!?

You’re eating rotten apples!?

Hey, fieldfare, how come!?


Tuesday, 26 February 2008

On the spot


Jogging on the spot

In a skyscraper tumbling

Through an earthquake dream


Saturday, 23 February 2008



Saturday morning:

Sitting in the armchair and

Thinking about God...


Friday, 22 February 2008



Bobcat in the park,

On an abandoned backhoe,

Written in English


Wednesday, 20 February 2008



Piscean morning…

The tick-tacking thump of piles

Driven into earth


Monday, 18 February 2008



Across the shoulder,

I see it from the armchair…

Moon in the window


Sunday, 17 February 2008



Finally, they’re out:

As always, in the backyard…

Two little snowdrops


What?


What is a haiku?

A haiku is a haiku –

As simple as that


Saturday, 16 February 2008



Bright winter weekend –

The big café is so full

Of little children




The waitress shows me

A red orange cut in two –

Valentine’s day gone


Friday, 15 February 2008



A neighbour’s fatso

Wooed by a huge cat turns out

To be a female


Thursday, 14 February 2008



A scout exploring

The top of the dishwasher…?

Talking about ants


Wednesday, 13 February 2008



In the fireplace

The rising sun embraces

The unsteady flames


Tuesday, 12 February 2008



Just a puff of wind…

Changing the pattern of seeds

On the windowsill


Feel it


Eyes closed I feel it

Coming from behind a cloud

Into my cold room


Monday, 11 February 2008

Searching


In the small cellar…

Searching through the wooden crate

For rotten apples


The palm


Warm under my palm,

The handkerchiefs I iron…

Late winter evening


Sunday, 10 February 2008

His head


On the balcony,

His head following the birds:

My aunt’s tabby cat


Windows


Through broken windows

The winter sun falls into

An old factory


Shining


A sidewalk café –

The shining chairs and tables

Stand in perfect rows


Rights


A blue graffiti:

‘Are the rights of a foetus

Above the woman’s?!’


Me first


My old-aged father…

Showing me the first crocus

In the flowerbed


Lost


Under a shield cap,

Lost in dazzling winter sun:

Mongoloid child


Late


It is getting warm:

The woman holds her baby…

Like my late cousin


Friday, 8 February 2008

This, too…


This, too, is winter:

It’s smiling on the sidewalk –

My little puddle

Thursday, 7 February 2008

When I come closer…


When I come closer,

Its shadow begins to pale:

The budding cherry

Wednesday, 6 February 2008

Shadows of the fall


Shadows of tits fall

Into the kitchen corner…

Midwinter sunset

Tuesday, 5 February 2008

Jazz


Spring attempts at jazz:

Between my lips a primrose

Sounds like a trumpet

Monday, 4 February 2008

On the road


The kitchen window

View of the new traffic sign:

Wildlife on the road

Old


In midwinter rain,

Soaking wet on a park bench,

An old newspaper

Without


The morning is grey,

The rain is without colour,

The coffee is black

Sunday, 3 February 2008

A different God


A hell of a place…

Yet, from a different angle,

Here is God’s plenty

A Saturday show


Shrove Saturday show:

After a sham fight drakes shake

Water from their tails

Saturday, 2 February 2008



February rain…

The variations of tits

Come through the window


A bridge of secrets


A man sells his book

Of secrets of pyramids

On shoemakers’ bridge


Friday, 1 February 2008



On the riverside,

A crow stops for a moment

On a tall bare tree




My English teacher:

I learn of his epic life…

Now that he is dead




Lush Christmas cactus

Still blooming at the dentist’s –

First February