Paisley Coats » Poems by Melony http://www.paisleycoats.com Tiny Odd Pics Fiction & Poems Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:06:49 +0000 en hourly 1 one haiku in the palm three lines print, print, print http://www.paisleycoats.com/2009/11/26/one-haiku-in-the-palm-three-lines-print-print-print/ http://www.paisleycoats.com/2009/11/26/one-haiku-in-the-palm-three-lines-print-print-print/#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:11:27 +0000 Melony Dott http://www.paisleycoats.com/?p=222 one haiku in the palm -- three lines print, print, print]]> 
one haiku
    in the palm -- three lines
print, print, print

Three Things About This Haiku

  1. My entire output for the month on November.
  2. Conceptual in nature, and therefore unhaiku-like.
  3. But I did compose it during a walk through nature.
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procession
   against the moonlight
wisps of cloud

3 Things About This Haiku

  1. Big old Moon this weekend. The kind that fills a clear sky.
  2. Clouds are like prudes wanting to hide her nakedness.
  3. The light in moonlight could have a double meaning.
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siren wail
the disquiet passing
lights festive

3 Things About This Haiku

  1. Ambulances are like passing specters.
  2. And yet they are almost beautiful when divorced from their significance.
  3. I have similar ambivalent feelings about ice cream trucks.
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indistinct
    shushing, leaves scatter
boughs bending

Three Things About This Haiku

  1. I think of lying in the hammock. Hammock haiku.
  2. Indistinct doesn’t seem like a word one finds in a haiku. It’s an experiment.
  3. This one reads better on one line.
]]> http://www.paisleycoats.com/2009/10/14/indistinct-shushing-leaves-scatter-boughs-bending/feed/ 0 Mile Zero http://www.paisleycoats.com/2009/10/05/mile-zero/ http://www.paisleycoats.com/2009/10/05/mile-zero/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:00:40 +0000 Melony Dott http://www.paisleycoats.com/?p=158 
AC/DC blasting we drive
a stolen car for the reservation
legal bottle rockets
but at every stop find
shops closed for Sunday's rest

Despite this we drive on
through the dry New Mexico
spring slumped in the wide back
seat while stunted evergreens sweep
back into the sand-colored
scenery until at MILE
0 we turn back

No one else notices
that green marker
among the weeds
nor would they care

One highway
opens; the other
disappears
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AC/DC blasting we drive
a stolen car for the reservation
legal bottle rockets
but at every stop find
shops closed for Sunday's rest

Despite this we drive on
through the dry New Mexico
spring slumped in the wide back
seat while stunted evergreens sweep
back into the sand-colored
scenery until at MILE
0 we turn back

No one else notices
that green marker
among the weeds
nor would they care

One highway
opens; the other
disappears

3 Things About This Free Verse

  1. The wilder days of my youth were really not so wild.
  2. The car was stolen only in the sense we didn’t tell the owner we were taking it.
  3. They might have actually lent it to us if we had asked.
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winter down
smoothed and unfolded
    to air
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winter down
smoothed and unfolded
    to air

3 Things About This Haiku

  1. Fall is here with winter on his heels!
  2. One syllable shorter than usual, but smoothed is a bit heavy, and air out would be extra padding.
  3. I need to find some more outdoor activities. I can only walk so far before my knee goes all wobbly. Where did I stuff my fold-away bike? Can my bum take it? And can you write a haiku while you ride a bike?
]]> http://www.paisleycoats.com/2009/09/30/winter-down-smoothed-and-unfolded-to-air/feed/ 0 Allegory of the Wasp http://www.paisleycoats.com/2009/09/25/allegory-of-the-wasp/ http://www.paisleycoats.com/2009/09/25/allegory-of-the-wasp/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:00:57 +0000 Melony Dott http://www.paisleycoats.com/?p=116 
Beyond the window shade, shadows
        shift, shapes bend

Sting, antennae, wing veins, twitching
        abdomen

I try to decide on which side
        the wasp crawls

Its silhouette slips as it flips
        through a hole

On the screen
    the wasp draws itself
        awkward lines
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Beyond the window shade, shadows
        shift, shapes bend

Sting, antennae, wing veins, twitching
        abdomen

I try to decide on which side
        the wasp crawls

The silhouette flips as it slips
        through a hole

On the screen
    the wasp draws itself
        awkward lines

3 Things About This Poem

  1. I started writing this poem over eight years ago.
  2. It ends in a haiku and so is something like a haibun.
  3. If you like you may draw parallels to Plato’s allegory of the cave. Go ahead.
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string weathered
silver tone clattered
    cylinders
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string weathered
silver tone clattered
    cylinders

3 Things About This Haiku

  1. These lines represent a wind chime.
  2. The words strike each other to create an impression of the object.
  3. That is my hope, at least.
]]> http://www.paisleycoats.com/2009/09/22/string-weathered-silver-tone-clattered-cylinders/feed/ 0 a palm strand yellowing, untwisted cattail lines http://www.paisleycoats.com/2009/09/09/a-palm-strand-yellowing-untwisted-cattail-lines/ http://www.paisleycoats.com/2009/09/09/a-palm-strand-yellowing-untwisted-cattail-lines/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:00:24 +0000 Melony Dott http://www.paisleycoats.com/?p=56 
a palm strand
    yellowing, untwisted
        cattail lines
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a palm strand
    yellowing, untwisted
        cattail lines

3 Things About This Haiku

  1. All palm leaves in my imagination have one wilting tip.
  2. “Untwisted” seems like a very twisted kind of word because it’s un-something-ed.
  3. Written while drugged on coffee and sleep-deprivation.
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brick lay flat
brighter and torn
    from under
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brick lay flat
brighter and torn
    from under

3 Things About This Haiku

  1. the first haiku where I really felt I’d written haiku
  2. thinking of that satisfying moment overturning a buried brick
  3. the first two words suggest the word “clay”
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