1.
Orion rises
to hunt through December skies:
cold elusive stars.
2.
Alnilam's white stare
illuminates the winter:
Orion's cold bones.
3.
Pretentious poets...
we really just write haiku
because it's easy.
4.
The world is baffled
As bullets drop with fall leaves
Striking their children.
5.
Jazz tomato wails:
bent blue notes, syncopation,
hot pure garden soul.
6.
Hippy tomato
dragging on forbidden weeds,
embracing allness.
7.
A tired tomato,
clinging to life by a vine,
sensing rot's entry.
8.
Haiku is easy?
I thought I was a poet
...Rude awakening
9.
Edku is for those
People who can't draw a line,
But can write three lines.
10.
Rutabaga stores.
Let 'em store 'til they's rotten.
Then throw 'em away.
11.
Drunken revelers
trampling apocalyptic
warnings like street trash
12.
Millennial fear
upstaged by TV forecasts
of a white Christmas
13.
Mister Schulz retires...
Lucy never let Charlie
kick that stupid ball!
14.
Red Baron Snoopy...
Will you please help get that kite
in the air... next flight?
15.
The Bears in Detroit
If Joe weren't so damn obsessed,
would I give a crap?
16.
Jesse's Gotten Riled
By the Expulsion of Thugs
Just Because They're Black
17.
Venezuelan child
safe in his mother's embrace,
lost house forgotten...
18.
Solitary moan
breaks the mud-shrouded silence
as survivors weep.
19.
The season for love.
Idiot gets the headlines.
John "Off His" Rocker.
20.
Boys can now wed boys!
Vermont court says it's OK
'Spite what Good Book says.
21.
Puffy and Lopez
Think they are Bonnie and Clyde,
Did they see the end?
22.
Tipper's got cancer?
Oh, please say it isn't so.
Yet Bill's wife stays well.
23.
Mayor halts party.
WTO melee
Hurts Seattle's 1st.
24.
The population:
Two hundred seventy-four
Million ... wow, crowded!
25.
Monica will be
On Larry King Live; been a
Long 15 minutes.
26.
In Iran, the peeps
Are avoiding dirty smog.
Thought LA was bad.
27.
Edku aren't newsy!
Isn't that the idea?
I'm just curious.
28.
Do your fingers hurt
Syllable-counting all day?
Mine do already.