Sunday, December 03, 2006

Poem 6 -Five Unrelated Non-Haiku

I successfully avoided the temptation to issue a Christmas poem, but will undoubtedly post one soon.
Here are five poems that should be in haiku form, but I don't like to write in iambic pentameter or use end rhyme, so I think it's only fair that I piss on another culture's arbitrary conventions by not counting syllables.
I had fun punctuating these.


a.
Fourteen horses:
murmured sleekness,
brown grace on the earth.

b.
The moon knows no grass,
yet grass shines back;
here is breath.

c.
A four year old,
knowing her raincoat is yellow,glows in the downpour.

d.
Rain dragging down the gray:
we wash the streets; we wash
apple blossoms

e.
The sun on a soccer field,
students with bare feet –
they are deciding.




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