haiku redux

I received 4 haiku comments on my New School of Household Haiku blog yesterday, and they’re all pretty good.

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keyboard sits quiet
room is dark with morning words
I hear the church bells

– Stone Ranger

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i do the left shoe
& then i do the right shoe
ev’ry fuckin’ time.

– fake dada [sumbitch]

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shivering inside
not liking the ice and snow
Michigan cold sucks

– Rune Warrior

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Gazing out the win-
dow I see naked trees and
no heat from sun

– Jack McGuane

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Plus I added this to a commentor’s comment:

it’s funny – i never wrote haiku until february 19, 2005 when i was lying in my bathtub soaking and toking and reading Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching and i lost my hold and the book fell into my bath water. the following haiku appeared in my mind and i broke out laughing and got out and wrote this down:

Holy Water

As I lie reading
‘Tao Te Ching’ drops in bathtub
I soak in Tao juice

haiku are easy to write, but so hard to write well. i’ve got a hundred or so by now and maybe 10% zing zen.