dog shit
or me
the fly doesn't care

 

         ---Stanford Forrester

 

 

writing a haiku
in the sand . . .
a wave finishes it

               

          --Sanford forrester

 

 

winter playground
the wind
louder than the children

                          

              --Stanford Forrester

 

 

Christmas spirit
he donates his Goodwill suit
to Salvation Army               

                               --Victor Gendrano


when I am gone
doctors will donate this heart
to someone else
only to find you
deep within the scar tissue

                         --kathy Lippard Cobb

Bobblehead Day
pigeons in the bleachers
pecking seeds

            --Al Fogel




Red Sox Tribute Day
9 Ted Williams
in the next aisle

           --Al Fogel

from the bunker

a red army advances...

breadcrumbs

         
          -- Al Fogel

First Prize  2009 Haiku Army Contest  "the emotional connection with the Red Army and breadcrumbs reaches me on two levels -- an army marches on its belly, and starvation as a weapon of war. The allusion to ants is there also. A well-crafted haiku,  

Here are some interesting Senryu. For those unfamiliar: Senryu is the human nature side of haiku.

moonlit night
my girlfriend and I
holding hand-helds

                --Al Fogel


trendy jeans--
holes in the knees from
garden pruning

              --Al Fogel


looks like a moth
no, a 4-eyed baphomet

Rorschach Test

               
             --Al Fogel 

Church Service

the dyslexic prays

to his dog

            
            --Al Fogel

car dashboard--

my plastic Jesus blesses

the plastic flowers

            
           --Al Fogel

In The Heart Of The Haiku: watching the moon...long after the honeymoon has p...

In The Heart Of The Haiku: watching the moon...long after the honeymoon has p...: "watching the moon...long after the honeymoon has passed &nbsp..."

watching the moon...long after the honeymoon has passed

                                         
                                                --Thomas Lamb


  

A book can be written about this poignant & memorable haiku--one of the finest one-line haiku ever written. honeymoon: conjuring up images of  initial  love, romance, adventure, faraway places, but no matter how intense, the honeymoon is usually of short duration and passes into other phases and cycles of married or unmarried life--and as it passes you are left with the moon its long celebrated romantic history---an enduring romance in contrast to the "honeymoon romance" which is temporal.The moon: forever welcoming all lovers who watch-- the young, the old, newlyweds, serenading all who feel its pull: inspiration for poets, authors, artists and songwriters.