Titles Longer Than The Poems: Three Haiku

Mixing My Orientalisms With My Mafiaisms: A Haiku Koan After Further Pondering My Viewing Of The Godfather Marathon On AMC

Why would anyone
Not risking taking gunshot
Leave the cannoli?


Of Apples And The Trees That Bore Them: Conclusions Reached On This Day Of Mourning

Funeral and wake
Doubtless, knowing their daughters,
Two wonderful men


Wishing I Could Determine The Exact Hour Of Standard Time I Lose And The Exact Hour Of Daylight Savings Time I Gain Back, Or Vice Versa, Whatwhichever: Not Buying The Enforced Arbitrariness Of Springing Forward And Falling Back

Sun rises sun sets
Heedless of our tinkerings
I want my hour back

Short Day, Short Post

Winter Solstice Haiku

Longest lines here, there
On shortest day of the year
Patience me, Santa




Whaiku?

Because it's so short
And I'm a Kerouacked drum
Beat beat beat beat beat



The Byrds-Why

Poetic Diplomacy

I don't think it made the nightly news shows, but about a year ago I invented a new form of poetry, limericku. A merging of two great poetic traditions, the limerick and haiku, limericku is my small contribution to bringing harmony to the world, an attempt to bring together two great cultures in a literate, whimsical, and best of all, very short, manner. Nominations for either the Nobel prize in literature or peace are not necessary, but would be appreciated. Take a minute, memorize one of the following limericku, and then you'll be ready; the mark of a cultural sophisticate, naturally, is the ability not just to quote poetry from memory, but to be able to recite an entire poem. Limericku are very easy on the memory muscles.

Limericku


Man from Nantucket
Perverse whaler descendant
Craves Red Sox ducat.




Drunk named McMoto
World’s first Japanese-Celt sot
Can’t snap clear photo



Gal from Tokyo
No rogue she, loved my brogue, see
Kismet, don't you know


The Pogues-Sayonara

Cibo Matto-Know Your Chicken

Whaiku

Seventeen sylla-
bles, image, no narrative
something done no time

Aaliyah-Are You That Somebody?