“Tree”

“Tree” [or “Wood Floor”]
Dead wood beneath  feet–
Once living home to creatures
Soaring over heads.

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[After this one, I promise to post no more mock haiku…at least not for a while…]

–Paul

“Mourning Dove”

A pun-filled haiku devised to make you cringe;)

Mourning Dove, cooer

of mournful low and high coos–

subjects of haiku

Soul-Destroying Sounds of Archaic Lamps

3 Minutes, 3 Parodies
I hope this post won’t come off as mean-spirited. My targets are not all free verse poets but rather those free verse poets who– without knowing much about formal meter or literary history and conventions– write off all formal verse as old fashioned. These parodies are supposed to be fun… feel free to laugh at them or to ignore them, but please do not become upset;)
I.

Papercut-thin

slicing my soul

each time she looks me in the eyes

and punctures my mouth with

swords of whore rebel dragon

tongue.

II.

Those wide-eyed youths

thinking they’ve earned life experience

with their passing knowledge of Hume, Nietzsche

other heretics I’ll see burning

from the burnished, embroidered

seat inscribed “Righteous prevaileth over skeptics”–

reading they missed when buried

in thin tree remnants

dried cold bits of bark

lacking life

lacking truth

worm-eaten.

I’ll sit

next

to

my

Maker

the Earth’s Maker.

III.

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Aural highway exorcising

impious silence

Robins and Goldfinches

Two haikus inspired by some of my favorite garden guests:

“Robin”

Freshly fallen rain

in black plastic flower pots–

the robins’ birdbath.

 

“Goldfinch”

Goldfinches on trees

Yellow flowers that adorn

early afternoon.

 

 

“Moments and Impermanence”

Cosmic labor push

Bringing forth a universe

Reborn each instant.

 

a 2nd pathetic attempt at haiku (by Paul Burgess)