American Sunset

Nashville tea party
Madhatter chatters
American sunset

Almost doggerel

my half assed haiku,
every syllable counted,
almost doggerel.

Feathered popcicles

Winterbound cats watch
frozen sparrows on power line
feathered popcicles.

January thaw...
Mid winter's
cruel joke.

pepper plant
defiant in the snow,
victorious red banner.

Snow falls in Baghdad.
White bombs of laughing grace,
washing away fear.

An Expat Tuscaloosan, After Shoveling Snow All Day,Grows Faint With Hunger

He dreams of Dreamland*
Southern accent all but gone,
"fuck all this damn snow",**

* Dreamland, a popular Alabama Bar-B-Q
** My wife is teaching incongruity to her honors students and is responsible for this last line.

Nookomis* rises
fat belly in midnight sky
cleansing pain begins.

*Nookomis--Ojibwe name for Grandmother Moon

Southern DNA Soup

Anglo-Celt transports,
hint of Afro-Choctaw ghosts,
walking Brunswick stew.

Mud

You're Tombigbee mud,
Creator's thumbprint on you,
crawfish swimming free.

No Tribal ID

No tribal I.D.
Grandfathers' voices echo,
grass breaks through cement

Warrior river ripples,
Nick and Bear stroll across,
Longhorns drown as Tide Rolls.

Arctic Blast speeds south
boney old rednecks mutter,
"global warming, my ass!"

Weatherman smirks
welcome to the new ice age,
an inconvenient truth.


http://www.iceagenow.com/

Ahmadinejad,
his website hijacked,
watches clouds descend
on Tehran.

Qatar Airlines
emirate's plaything,
space age magic carpet.

Yemeni Tourist Board,
"visit beautiful Old Sana’a",
drones buzz through the night.

Yemeni Tourist board:
"come try our very fine qat"---
bombs bursting in air.

clear winter sky,
less snow than usual,
grass peeks through white.

In the Yemeni night
a sand storm builds
as a new front opens.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_yemen_al_qaida

Sub zero temperatures,
car battery gasps and dies
long walk in snow.

Wisconsin winters
snow and black ice,
hell freezes over.

Clock Stikes twelve

Clock stikes twelve
another decade begins,
dog still sleeps on sofa.

These resolutions,
consumed like cold summer soup,
brighten a new path.

Cold blue moon
eclipsed by new year,
the sun rises tomorrow.

Halfassed Haikus

Well, what can I say, I'm not a purist by any means,but there is something about the form that calls me. So, if you're looking for well crafted little jewels, look elsewhere. Otherwise, enjoy.