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Seventeen syllables AIN'T
No square poet's job.
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Come join the Howl in 17 syllables. Just send your Haiku or other short-form poems by e-mail (or use the form below) and Coyote will place them on this page. Tanka and other Japanese poetic forms accepted here too. The most recent additions will be placed at the top of the list

A tri-ku poem from friend Gado

now that you have "found
yourself", recall one vital
part, lost in your search.
she has found her fame
no matter the cost in pain
to those who loved her.
behind her, a path...
tangled corpses paved the way...
"success", does leave clues...
Š 1999

A poem from Friend Alena Vallo

The Moon shines down on me
dancing in his bright light
The Moon shines down on me.

ŠAlena Avallo, 1999

Friend Cathi flies high on haiku wings with this haiku suite

Acadian Myst

Silvery mist swirls.
The scent of sea-roses sings
To the warbler's heart.

Old-man's-beard drips rain
From the gnarled, sea-blasted spruce.
The wild loon laughs.

The jade sea crashes
Against stern and blood-red cliffs.
The Peregrine stoops.

Out of the mist dives
The Falcon, in a death-dance
With the swallow.

Silvery mist swirls
Around stern and bloody cliffs.
The wild loon laughs.

*****

Š 1999, Cathi Pelletier

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Friend Pamela shares a haiku about an unsavory subject

man on side of road
scraping death off of pavement
sucks to be him

*****

ŠPamela 1999

Friend Sheldon Young shares what he labels a "zenku"

* heads of state
states of mind
united states

*****

Š Sheldon Young 1999
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Friend Jim Garman joins the Haiku howl

Love nature sublime
romantic expressions loom
blessed by God above

*****

Š Jim Garman 1999

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Three fine examples of the art from Coyote's Friends, The Barreras

BUSINESS HAIKU

Rhythm of the keys,
broken by ringing phones, pen
writes stones up the sky.

*****

Four Seasons Haiku

Budding into warmth
Heat shimmers away to leave
Stark branches with snow.

Š Copyright 1999 Barreras

*****

BLANK PAPER HAIKU

First, you pick up pen
then, you concentrate hard and...
you write, "burning wood".

Š Copyright 1997 S. Barrera

*****

http://home.earthlink.net/~thebarreras
Enrique Esteban & Rosa Sheila Barrera

A current affairs haiku from friend Paul Coneally

Billy now smiling
rolling another cigar
without inhaling

*****

Friend Paul Allan White sent a Haiku Howl

Hate the way i feel
tonight. Jester without wit
Ego in full flight.

*****
Visit him at My Name Will Stain

Friend Judith Bilbrey sent these haiku for all of us to share.

Rust and gold
Crisp and shiny
Barren tree stands tall.

*****

Gasp of air
Startled cry
Life a new.

*****

Soul lost
Salvation comes
New life dawns

*****

A touch of silk
A shadow cast
A blind man's wish

*****

Rustling, crunching, rasping
speeding, sliding
Ricocheting rocks against the automobile.

*****

Undefined picture
A wordless phrase
Autism reigns.

*****

Forest pirate
Laarger than average
A nest stealing cuckoo.

*****

Hung on nothing
A rotating sphere
A masters plan in place.

Two poems from friend Dan who likes the short form!

1.
My nose to the breeze.
The scent of pine thru the trees
from the falling cones-
Can you hear the seeds crunching
Under your selfish footsteps?

**** 2.
Composition muse-
Dusks' brush strokes blend a mountain
Baby blue to dark,
Its glaciered peak the lone cloud
Where it is otherwise clear.

Thoughtful Concept

first, a single thought
energy unites with thought
opportunity

By soft`rain
February 17, 1998

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Softly Conquered

mountains built of rock
unmovable to many
pierced softly with rain

By soft`rain
August 22, 1998
http://softrain.itlnet.net

She's a drowned mermaid
buried thick under saliva,
Your freak fantasy.

****

And I won't anymore
Accept your tender lynchings,
Your sweet, humble rapes.

****

You choose to white out
your dark urgent tendency,
loving phallacy.

****

Your self absorbtion
a slight mockery of me,
my place, purpose.

ŠMariposa, 1998

A group of Haiku Howls by Charles Albano from the Great State of New Jersey

Seasons stand in line
in eternal rightful place,
awaiting their time.

****

It tumbles from sky
dropping from the blue vastness--
escape pigeon hawk.

****

When earth underfoot
its miniature life forms
protest in silence.

****

Earth turns leaden ear--
wanton acts of man offend,
irreversibly.

****

Bear in its wisdom
knows the way of the salmon,
paw there to greet it.

****

In early autumn
clouds gather in conference,
pass stormy judgment.

****

Nature's own fury
differs from that of mankind--
never criminal.

****

Condor soars in the sky
much higher than the mountains,
on updafts, tip-toed.

****

In savannah grass
lion sniffs and peers above,
targeting next kill.

****

Generous summer
yields fruit from its bosom--
best savored slowly.

*****

ŠCharles Albano 1998

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maybe my grandma
has bodies in her basement...
you just never know.
****

laughter and slaughter
look like they rhyme. they don't
but do after time.
****

lego must've made
our bodies, baby - the way
they snap together.
****

i am sitting here -
naked - on the bathroom floor
writing these haikus.
****

we'd only dated
for two months; we shouldn't have
worn each other's clothes.
****

kissing you is like
shooting up with novacaine;
i don't feel a thing.

****

loving you is like
losing my keys for six months;
i'm going nowhere.

****

remember that night
we made love for the first time?
we lied to ourselves.
****

i hate you i hate
you i hate you i hate you...
please take me back.
****

scalding hot bath in
vain to cleanse the stain, the sin,
her smell from my skin.
****

the blackberry stains
on my fingertips look like
blood, only bluer.
****

goth girl says, "please don't
write a poem about me."
i say, "well... okay."
****

i woke up to find
it was the end of the world;
should i lock my bike?
****

we are starfish on
the ocean floor, staring up
at the fish with wings.
****

If you put your ear
to my chest right now, you would
hear my heart breaking.

*****

ŠEirik Ott 1998

Stories

Dim sun, still wind,
open field, bird in shadow,
men asleep, song unheard

*****

ŠD.K. Smith 1998

Science Fiction Editor
Little Read Writer's Hood

Five from jase botting

counting the syllables
on powdery fingers
to write this
haiku
****

released and soaked up,
vomiting from the
well guarded fraction
of thought.
****

wing nut emblems
with broken sparrow wings
dusty skies with dancing feet
****

Graves enveloped by
honeylike froth
of the devilishly
handsome.
****

I would chase a
million shooting stars
if one would lead me to
you

****

E-Mail jase or visit his website, wide streets of the narrow-minded.

Senseless Haiku

Grab a beer, there are
Transsexual vampires on
Jerry Springer's show!
****

Guns in the classroom?!
The tabloids love the sick stuff.
Round holes for square pegs.
****

The new age is here,
Poetry is its language,
I speak with a lisp.

Memories of childhood...

Hey, look at me, ma!
I can fit my head inside
The dog's foaming mouth.
****

Please, pass the meat loaf.
Its dry, but I'll still eat it.
Why are you crying?
****

Snow day, train yard play.
My tongue sticks to frozen track.
Oops, here comes a train.

They go in threes...

Burroughs died last year,
Now even his lousy stuff
will be popular.
****

Ginsberg died last year,
And I didn't even get
A chance to thank him.
****

Acker died last year.
Poetry's on a rampage.
Why am I laughing?

*****

ŠDonovan Grant 1998
Visit Donovan Grant at
The Lost Gallery of Memory and Desire

Haiku from the Coyote

Canoe rocks gently
silver fish dart through water
I sigh contentment

****

Cut any old way,
seventeen limits poets
verbiosity

****

Happiness lays back
Waiting, laughing at the fool
awaiting his knock

****

Ripples in water
Mark passage of skipping stones
Laughter fades away

****

bass thumps louder as
low-riders roll on asphalt
summer night-dreams play

*****

ŠWilliam Davis 1998

OTHER HAIKU SITES

CHABA
e-journal focusing on modern haiku and senryu; essays concerning style, technique, translation and season words; and interviews with contemporary haiku poets.

Hai Raise Urban Haiku

SciFaiku.com

The SPAM Haiku Archive (Spam-ku)

The Toast Point Haiku Contest

Interactive Haiku Homepage

Editorial Haiku Homepage

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