– below are haiku and senryu written by “dagosan”, this weblog’s Editor, David A. Giacalone. most have been on the Home Page, some are outtakes and rewrites. each is a work in progress. i hope they show improvement over time and encourage others to try writing haiku –
– click here for dagosan’s archive index –
8th birthday –
she wants a diamond
and new cleats
[for Lissa, July 31, 2005]
another summer
infatuation
orange daylilies
[July 30, 2005]
fasting for a blood test —
the phlebotomist
puts down his doughnut
cute receptionist —
handing her
a Medicare card
[July 29, 2005]
cooler after the storm —
a smile from
the neighborhood scold
[July 28, 2005]
one more
razor nick —
she kisses the whiskered cat
[July 27, 2005]
July heatwave —
the hardhats grieve over
lukewarm coffee
[July 26, 2005]
lawn seating —
we hear
the clouds float by
[July 25, 2005]
perigee:
the moon
closer than you
[July 21 2005]
open window —
summer breeze
blows right by
a lot less humid
choosing
the sunny side of the street
[July 20 2005]
mid-July —
the weatherman
explains dew points again
[July 19, 2005]
toweling off —
why do I always
start here?
[July 18, 2005]
sultry Sunday
freezer pops and
blue tongues
[July 17, 2005]
harvest moon
a cartful
of groceries
[orig. Sept. 26, 2004,
edited, July 16, 2005]
rush-hour red light —
every car but ours
airconditioned
[July 15, 2005]
just past sunset —
faded daylilies
more orange than before
[July 14, 2005]
the gull we shooed —
watching and
watching its flight
[July 13, 2005]
tawny
crescent moon –
the curve of her tan line
[July 12, 2005]
an oak shades
the newly-waxed Saab —
sparrow scores a bull’s-eye
[July 11, 2005]
Sunday dawn —
yawning
all the way back to bed
[July 10, 2005]
sudden downpour
wet t-shirts
show much too much
[July 8, 2005]
summer laundry —
the colors pile
half the size of the whites
[July 7,2005]
not until we’re married!
he invokes
the kissing loophole
just as much fun
with our dentures out
his pop-fly
kisses the moon —
heading to second
the bedroom spider
gets clemency —
not the mosquito
[July 6, 2005]
parked on the shoulder
in a driving rain —
our flashers dim
[July 5, 2005]
fireworks –
in the crowd
one dog wimphers, one howls
!!!!!!!
finale
f
f
f
f
f
f
f
f
fireworks
town hall fireflies
keep working the crowd
[July 4, 2005]
bedroom cricket —
she wants it caught
and brought outside
[July 3, 2005]
breakfast alone
a cricket
in the kitchen
double-play:
baseball and fireworks
called on account of rain
[July 2, 2005]
July downpour —
a tiny dry patch
on the porch
lightning storm —
the constant flashing
of digital clocks
[July 1, 2005]