Paisley Coats » Haiku and Tanka 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.
]]> http://www.paisleycoats.com/2009/11/02/procession-against-the-moonlight-wisps-of-cloud/feed/ 0 siren wail the disquiet passing lights festive http://www.paisleycoats.com/2009/10/21/siren-wail-the-disquiet-passing-lights-festive/ http://www.paisleycoats.com/2009/10/21/siren-wail-the-disquiet-passing-lights-festive/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:00:26 +0000 Melony Dott http://www.paisleycoats.com/?p=209 siren wail the disquiet passing lights festive]]> 
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.
]]> http://www.paisleycoats.com/2009/10/21/siren-wail-the-disquiet-passing-lights-festive/feed/ 0 indistinct shushing, leaves scatter boughs bending http://www.paisleycoats.com/2009/10/14/indistinct-shushing-leaves-scatter-boughs-bending/ http://www.paisleycoats.com/2009/10/14/indistinct-shushing-leaves-scatter-boughs-bending/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:11:20 +0000 Melony Dott http://www.paisleycoats.com/?p=188 indistinct shushing, leaves scatter boughs bending]]> 
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.
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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 string weathered silver tone clattered cylinders http://www.paisleycoats.com/2009/09/22/string-weathered-silver-tone-clattered-cylinders/ http://www.paisleycoats.com/2009/09/22/string-weathered-silver-tone-clattered-cylinders/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:00:15 +0000 Melony Dott http://www.paisleycoats.com/?p=103 
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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