brown yellow crimson / candy coated drowsy limbs / our eyes delighted

lonely October / all my summertime poems / packed away till June

the routine returns / summer pleasures are over / new delights arrive

it is sad / when there is no time / for a new game

I have found my niche / if only food and money / would float by this shell

all catawampus / I looked at her obliquely / she aslant looked back

stepped on a spider / watched the clouds turn into rain / noticed life's passing

incredible stars / countless celestial points / for minds to ponder

stone heart of killick / anchors me to your moorings / the rhythm of time

risque with no hat / that's a very daring move / almost indecent

what on earth is it / melting ice this choking air / only our legacy

what on earth is it / melting ice this choking air / our foul legacy

the AC is off / windows open wide by day / furnace on by night

auto-looting off / try to overcome the odds / struggle avatar

purple painted door / nothing changed on the inside / crossing threshold

autumn in Maine / multicolored roadside trees / tourists come to see

welter in rich blood / wanting deep involvement / with swimming in dough

after a week of rain / bountiful soaking wet grass / wild turkeys roam

open car window / sudden wind shakes some branches / a leaf blows inside

dog owners heed this / please clean up after your pet / my shoes will thank you

teeth press together / such vulgar alternatives / food chain totems

white ball on green grass / six boys and a coach running / soccer practise

online character / it doesn't have to be false / it just has to be

wedding odyssey / materializes / distant from alpha

honor my auger / origins penetrated / purity flowing

I am never bored / there's always my computer / and social networks

fragile nosegay / giving them all my tulips / getting back dogwood

chilled rain and wind / in a day it all changes / pine needle coating

wind fluttered flag / rippling abandoned lake / beckons winter come

direction searching / extrapolate the unknown / never finding home

shinny up the tree / reach for shiny red apple / grin from ear to ear

falling down a hole / not following a rabbit / but number crunching

working side effect / entirely too tired / to be depressed

determination / winter rushes towards me / late bloomer

no vows broken yet / avulse your vestment more / no promise is made

fire crackling / golden roasted marshmellows / it gets dark early

fire crackling / golden roasted marshmallows / it gets dark early

broom our surfaces / so we don't slip and slide / on life's bananas

almost sunny day / wind ripples the lake surface / we chat about birds

a beast in the mist / broken bones and bloody cries / moose against machine

checking my status / translucent screen shows me / I forgot to save

definite blue fish / drained using a mazarine / I said blow not blue

feelings gone berserk / panic attack excited / anticipation

first snow almost gone / pumpkins had white hair last night / water drips everywhere

women chattering / green expanse in front of me / a cold wind blows

looking for a home / seeds flutter like butterflies / I almost miss them

a gentle breeze / the occasional leaf falls / overall gray calm

small camels and bears / the playground is now empty / animal crackers

I trust my insight / you are not that intuit / you need solid facts

lost times and loved ones / having moved beyond the now / complicated still

sparkling white smile / by dental masocism / teeth cleaning session

a winding pathway / draws me ever closer to / my last arabesque

forty five people / all applying for this job / my chances are slim

coiffure quandary / either a bad hair day or / he's poorly bewigged

femmes on the catwalk / I could pretend to walk that way / but not without pain

butterfly woman / hangs on dentist office wall / symbolism faint

a nice way to say / frail old spent decrepit / just call them mature

on my morning walk / wild turkeys cross my path / I can see my breath

the Bangles were wrong / they walk like wild turkeys / not Egyptians

suddenly moonstruck / I went for the immortal look / and bought Apollo shirt

the young boy / my favorite / grandson

full moon concealed / the show tonight is cancelled / because of the rain

a cold heavy rain / traces bright lines in the gloom / oblivious mums

technology toys / always taking up my time / most satisfying

try to roar gruffly / pretend to be unafraid / of those surly trolls

this hunting season / I pray that all us critters / avoid the bullet

pinch of zonure dung / with seven butterfly backs / makes a scaly mess

harsh ridiculing / not an effective method / of supervision

to hide nakedness / this kalamkari banner / makes a lustrous wrap

dentist office smells / noisey waiting room TV / tension is building

light opaque splotches / on an indigo beach sign / clear seagull message

this ESPN / is my least favorite station / to take a nap by

searching for beauty / but spend most of my days as / cynic and critic

let us not forget / that most of us are simply / the excess labor

speeding bicycles / children are congregating / hotdogs disappear

autumn is too short / it can never all be said / i bought you a card

obstensible prick / just one more small reminder / that my nerves still work

fly into the sun / I could do so many things / if you would ask me

not floromancy / just beginning to accept / that stones do not speak

the horn of plenty / all was taken for granted / the bounty now gone

certain grace there is / in maintaining one's own space / probable goodwill

the handy checkmate / someone you should take along / to pay all the bills

continuous strife / territorial guarding / resolved by checkmate

grandaughter cheered / the oldest parade around / the passage of time

power and money / the man now lies in the ground / fertilizing grass

he is so nerdy / spending every weekend / sorting through email

first winter then spring / late November tortures me / with dripping snow melt

monosyllable / inconceivable premise / for a haiku guru

across the river / lights are barely visible / veiled by the fog

bright sickle divides / this past day from tomorrow / westward crescent moon

I enunciate / that at this precise moment / there is aught to say

you can call me stew / make sure you never call me / too late for din-din

will we understand / when everyone speaks English / babbling towers

we like where we are / worship those who got us here / by the random path

with understanding / your cup does not overflow / fool ignoramus

if I break down / hold my hand and wait for me / I'll try to return

being that austere / is not the way to get down / or get up again

I have yet to find / a palpable rationale / for raking fall leaves

traditional themes / following what others / deem as important

sitting on the john / thinking of the many things / wasted on this throne

things are very wrong / when the assholes are in control / of the production

welcome December / should all the writing succumb / to holiday spirits

if it's popular / random trendy ludicrous / dote upon these things

linger not near me / vessel of many movements / commodious chair

listing all the food / spoiled from the power outage / makes my mouth water

accused of being / an aficionado / of acute torpor

painting clouds with light / the setting sun proves to be / the master of art

dilated pupils / my soul is being exposed / ophthalmologist

nursery workers / five shrubs and seven seedlings / as their stock options

seen near Balmoral / a homage to fine oxfords / shoe topiary

that country tycoon / is yearning to marry a / cowgirl kogal

fullness of the moon / floats above mackerel skies / radiating light

held within my grasp / the end of every strand / of the universe

just a gut feeling / by this slumgullion we / are watered not fed

at the outer edge / beyond imagination / lies the final truth

political speech / the art of making simoons / stifling hot air

here in the darkness / all our efforts are focused / on finding the light

without the paycheck / work might be interesting / but less rewarding

my dreams inaquate / flow away under the bridge / but I do not weep

loud pounding drums / intense electric guitar / rocking in my ears

Friday and Monday off / without getting paid of course / mostly jubilant

sun touches tree tops / the world seems on fire / at winter sunset

noisy crowded place / text messaging back and forth / smiling in response

in need of more time / when will we start traveling / at the speed of light

sadness prevails / and then the soul is stretched / beyond nothingness

up and down the stairs / the cats chasing each other / the clatter of claws

luster in the clouds / branches clatter in fall winds / not oragious

neither rain nor snow / but the color of the clouds / tells our future

a dry laurel rests / in a bay of hunter's stew / consumed in peril

a dry laurel rests / in a bay of hunter's stew / consumed at peril

saw and hammer noise / the neighbor's brand new abode / begins to take form

looking quite feline / it was a disguised polecat / more tomato juice please

so many great tools / I get very little done / app-aholism

I'd rather coin from / Venice Malta or Turkey / than sequin outfits

winter solstice / came and went without fanfair / autumn sleeps again

in my own mind / I can surpass the limits / of the speed of light

over the roof eve / celestial shadow hints / beginning new moon

my thoughts are jelly / please do not butter me up / not in a jam yet

if coincidence / flags your message as spam / your note will vanish

carpenters next door / are drilling through an i-beam / dentist reminder

will the final sleep / be just as wonderful as / my daily repose

where is the fashion / that can adumbrate extra / ventral anomolies

a grande esplanade / just outside of our back door / we would go strolling

which gives more freedom / your suburban domicile / or an esplanade

standing on a point / infinitely small beings / face all directions

they cut the big ones / decades of growth now lumber / they are only trees

cutting the big ones / decades of growth now lumber / but they are just trees

in the grand scheme / a day like any other / yet pregnant with hope

somehow I forgot / to celebrate New Year's eve / it happened sans moi

I capture the frank / with misericordia / and swallow it down

in this deeper dark / insignificant glimmers / these resolutions

as each one arrives / crescendo in the chatter / gathering of crows

homerically / is not how I spent my day / eat nap rinse repeat

welcome to the race / never mind those nasty pests / they're only human

we can be thankful / the gods have not yet learned / cutting and pasting

the guy that left last / gets labelled the dirdum dude / it cannot hurt him

the guy that left last / gets to be the dirdum dude / it will not hurt him

no apologies / my independent thinking / keeps its own schedule

morning theater / oak tree takes foreground center / enter sun stage left

backwards idea / I do huge amounts of work / get paid so little

car goes by at night / headlights across darkened wall / traveling nowhere

construction next door / a dozen giant boulders / linger on the grass

light snow covering / the air filled with misty white / quiet and lonely

orange yellow sky / the darkest of dark green trees / mirrored in the lake

the winds are wailing / each gust is trying its best / to blow the house down

the cats are hiding / snuggled in some warm corner / dreaming of jungles

a winter evening / no movement or sound outside / here at the lakeshore

momentarily / the sun shines even brighter / behind the treeline

politicians blame / everyone but themselves for / penurious funding

formation of geese / fleeing winter's cruelty / honk encouragement

I stoll his crumpet / is that enough reason for / histrionic rage

no bridge to the past / many ways that might have been / in faint memories

light diminishes / trees fade into the background / cold night approaches

scratching at the glass / our cat tries his best to catch / the intangible moon

cotyledons think / they reach epigeous heights / totally on their own

cotyledons think / they reach epigeous heights / wholly on their own

scratching at the glass / our cat tries his best to catch / the perplexing moon

the fresh snowfall / covers the tree branches / icing on the cake

threw up the muntin / almost tore out my shutter / pandemonium

whereas the party / of the first part hereafter / referred to as we

pale pink streaks of cloud / drifting parallel with / the rippling waves

bigger better stick / claviger key to success / humans have not changed

not enough snowfall / to cover silent gravestones / on guard in the cold

hate when people screw up / leads to self-deprecation / we all make mistakes

my cat looks at me / as if he can understand / every word I say

if you want their love / take every opportune / moment to listen

I tend to prefer / late nights and sleeping all day / unlike all my peers

now that she has turned / our Bella can have her beau / for lunch or dinner

birth certificates / indicate when and where / not why we are born

clouds on the horizon / backlit in burning splendor / by the setting sun

possible result / if I equilibrize life / mediocrity

I'm trying to type / my cat keeps bunting my arm / all flubs are his fault

hazy scenery / muted by ice and snow / world closing in

deliberations / your arrival home can lull / my inner churning

my avocation / writing simple poems / my aeipathy

even a bad poem / should be left for scrutiny / open confession

even bad poems / should be left for scrutiny / open confession

revanchist lies / in recursive promises / election year

ceremonial / rearranging furniture / marital accord

except for the trees / the world a grayish white / frigid and dormant

solid for new sport / icosahedron baseball / no curve balls allowed

recollections / of green grass and trees in fruit / a bite of apple

write then rearrange / read it out loud and edit / ready for posting

pluck a few good fruit / out of the rotting bunch / compost what remains

if all regarded / usufruct as natural / earth might be salvaged

incredible scene / staging of thousands of birds / magic gathering

Einstein was correct / gods don't play dice with nature / it's Russian roulette

she has passed away / someone i used to know well / an obituary

with a jussive tone / I bade them scour the plot / unobtainium lust

she has passed away / someone i used to know well / obituary

so much to get done / I would rather join my cats / in peaceful repose

all that's gone before / created in an instant / statistical blip

the baton is raised / silence permeates the hall / someone farts proudly

single molecule / compendious invite / to scent memories

sleep on dragon / wakeful only in our dreams / where we are children

haiku is painting / small and delicate pictures / with fragile wording

I plead not guilty / I did not call it haiku / only imitated

haiku senryu / people will say that I lie / if I label them

haiku is the goal / but sometimes anomolies / create miracles

dead looking plant / green inner stems betray / zest for living

people hesitate / the sun rises and sets / just so many times

hesitate slightly / the world will pass you over / with indifference

we may love nature / but she is impersonal / to all creatures

three o'clock AM / project still not completed / jagged are my nerves

knock down the forests / they only want what we've had / for many years now

lake water too low / snow melt is already done / loons cry in the night

guilty of rhyming / words in a haiku like verse / is there haiku hell

back of cat arches / as I massage down his spine / overt affection

green row after row / fields of six foot tall pole beans / hot summer wages

reproduction / bisexual tradition / goes back eons

phlox along the drive / bloom for a month with zeal / woodchucks devour

plant life in earnest / urgency to multiply / next winter will come

bicycle tires / caught in catch basin cover / just grate on my nerves

green forest expanse / right out to the precipice / where fossils are found

song of the river / increases in tempo / heavens provide rain

hard to ignore / brilliant sunset piercing / thunderstorm clouds

blue heavens / song of wild birds / cool river

somewhere inside / he considered them kin / raven and crow

be it desk or junk / traditional or modern / it's all good