Edku: December 1999

Move backwards to November 1999.

1.
Orion rises
to hunt through December skies:
cold elusive stars.

--Darrell Hugueley

2.
Alnilam's white stare
illuminates the winter:
Orion's cold bones.

--Darrell Hugueley

3.
Pretentious poets...
we really just write haiku
because it's easy.

--PawPrintMs@aol.com

4.
The world is baffled
As bullets drop with fall leaves
Striking their children.

--Kate Rineer, krineer@netzero.net

5.
Jazz tomato wails:
bent blue notes, syncopation,
hot pure garden soul.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

6.
Hippy tomato
dragging on forbidden weeds,
embracing allness.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

7.
A tired tomato,
clinging to life by a vine,
sensing rot's entry.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

8.
Haiku is easy?
I thought I was a poet
...Rude awakening

--John Hardin, jhardin@mail.sbc-adv.com

9.
Edku is for those
People who can't draw a line,
But can write three lines.

--Lee Malone, leemalone@aol.com

10.
Rutabaga stores.
Let 'em store 'til they's rotten.
Then throw 'em away.

--Lee Malone, leemalone@aol.com

11.
Drunken revelers
trampling apocalyptic
warnings like street trash

--PawPrintMs@aol.com

12.
Millennial fear
upstaged by TV forecasts
of a white Christmas

--PawPrintMs@aol.com

13.
Mister Schulz retires...
Lucy never let Charlie
kick that stupid ball!

--PawPrintMs@aol.com

14.
Red Baron Snoopy...
Will you please help get that kite
in the air... next flight?

--PawPrintMs@aol.com

15.
The Bears in Detroit
If Joe weren't so damn obsessed,
would I give a crap?

--PawPrintMs@aol.com

16.
Jesse's Gotten Riled
By the Expulsion of Thugs
Just Because They're Black

--Tim Driscoll

17.
Venezuelan child
safe in his mother's embrace,
lost house forgotten...

--PawPrintMs@aol.com

18.
Solitary moan
breaks the mud-shrouded silence
as survivors weep.

--PawPrintMs@aol.com

19.
The season for love.
Idiot gets the headlines.
John "Off His" Rocker.

--Lee Malone, leemalone@aol.com

20.
Boys can now wed boys!
Vermont court says it's OK
'Spite what Good Book says.

--Tim Driscoll

21.
Puffy and Lopez
Think they are Bonnie and Clyde,
Did they see the end?

--Chris, danielc@its-quality.com

22.
Tipper's got cancer?
Oh, please say it isn't so.
Yet Bill's wife stays well.

--Chris, danielc@its-quality.com

23.
Mayor halts party.
WTO melee
Hurts Seattle's 1st.

--Chris, danielc@its-quality.com

24.
The population:
Two hundred seventy-four
Million ... wow, crowded!

--Chris, danielc@its-quality.com

25.
Monica will be
On Larry King Live; been a
Long 15 minutes.

--Chris, danielc@its-quality.com

26.
In Iran, the peeps
Are avoiding dirty smog.
Thought LA was bad.

--Chris, danielc@its-quality.com

27.
Edku aren't newsy!
Isn't that the idea?
I'm just curious.

--Chris, danielc@its-quality.com

28.
Do your fingers hurt
Syllable-counting all day?
Mine do already.

--Chris, danielc@its-quality.com


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