[As you may already know, Haiku has 17 syllables: 5 syllables in the first
line, 7 in the second, 5 in the third. Here are some suggestions.]
OPTIONS
Unemployment’s out.
Hey, maybe I can get on
Disability
BLAZE
Distant siren screams
Neighbor kid’s been playing with
Gasoline again
REMORSE
A painful sadness
Can’t fit big screen TV through
Doublewide’s front door
BEAUTY
Naked in repose
Silvery silhouette girls
Adorn my mud flaps
DEPRIVED
In Wal-Mart toy aisle
Wailing boy wants wrestling doll
Mama whups back side
A NEW MOON
Flashlights pierce darkness
No night crawlers to be found
Guess we’ll gig some frogs
HATRED
I curse the rainbow
Emblazoned upon his hood
That darn Jeff Gordon
DESIRE
In that bathing suit
You make me almost forget
That you’re my cousin
OFFERINGS
Tonight we hunger
Grandma sent grocery money
To Jimmy Swaggart
DRAMA
Set the VCR
Dukes of Hazzard Marathon
At 9 o’clock
IMPOUNDED
Sixty-five dollars
And cyclone fence keeps me from
My El Camino
GATHERING
In early morning mist
Mama searches Circle K for
Moon Pies and Red Man
~~
Dr Bob Griffin
“Jesus knows me, this I love”