Haiku III
by Dennis M. Hammes
SCRAWLMARK PUBLISHING
Moorhead, Minnesota
The FISHHOOK Group
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for Janell
To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand
how we come to feel it.
-- George Santayana
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401
three-foot maple tree
one sparrow singing
from it to me
402
Saturday
and little clouds
come out to play
403
what god can bless
like one small box
from UPS
404
black bra on the line
oh
wicked design
405
small black putz
white rabbit mouse
a triple lutz
406
cool maple city
white popcorn clouds
black window kitty
407
what withdrew
if plastic keeps
Casadesus
408
record bands
Haebler's Chopin
withered hands
409
soggy breeze
empty screen
lettered keys
410
one star woven
in pink city clouds
Beethoven
411
garden with crows
sweat-hot tee-shirt
poems in prose
412
yardful of crows
skateboards in streets
before snow blows
413
white diapers in rows
red Saturday truck
green yardful of crows
414
kitty on the stoop
violets in the sidewalk
salt in the bean soup
415
poetry group
traffic arguments
no salt for the soup
416
scout troop
rolling tents
the crows regroup
417
crows on the harrow
the nodding dandelions
emit a sparrow
418
what can convince
eternal moon
footprints
419
midnight wish
one gray footprint
lungfish
420
here is brain
and here is Kitty
after rain
421
your breasts will pardon
my inattention --
crows in the garden
422
one little yawn
when you arrived
dragonfly was gone
423
how does one
even so-large dragonfly
carry the sun
424
sunset, porch, cheetos
burning dragonflies
crisp mosquitoes
425
where is the fox
oh big-eyed kitty
in a box
426
long kitty
beyond the screen
only the city
427
yellow tureen
lingering tomato
parsley so green
428
see mallards playing
"webbed feet for swimming
or for sleighing"
429
still eye so bright
orange-breasted statue
explodes with flight
430
crabgrass, weeds
long, tan stalks
delphinium seeds
431
hot, gray, and it's
starting to rain
in my pits
432
a web to guide her
pole transformer
spider
433
kitty at the pane
staring
at the rain
434
who is tutor
when I write
for my computer
435
in this chopper
I am also
grasshopper
436
flag stuck to pole
ripple chips
glued to bowl
437
walk's end
mottled moon
only friend
438
definite moon
silvers clouds
too soon
439
what to give
for a treehouse
where hope might live
440
hut in a tree
but what there is
to see
441
from fans of ash
red berries peek
and still too brash
442
on my desk
this black lump
no pesk
443
with what begin
Tchaikowsky D
this violin
444
what fox
black kitty
in box
445
you carry the sky
with even these wings
blue dragonfly
446
do I
want a sapphire
blue dragonfly
447
whatcha spyin'
o my library
lion
448
poor Friskies goop
here Kitty waits
to lick my soup
449
craters dropped askanse
if raindrops hit the moon
would they grow ants
450
sparrow's seed
my little flower
please -- which is "weed"?
451
how gray the rain
how green
the grain
452
what tricks
Monarchs play my alley
and only six
453
Monarchs put cricks
in my too-citied neck
and only six
454
dead cat
Lazarused by my voice
imagine that
455
my mouth agape
attacked by a wild
grape
456
such a day
even that flower
flew away
457
you blab at random
while even dragonflies
are tandem
458
such a sheen
even in shadow
blackbird's green
459
red squirrel's bouquet
explodes from bulging cheeks
maple seeds today
460
blackbird cliques
disparage my brown garden
window kitty squeaks
461
siren blowing?
are crows policing
or police crowing?
462
first frosted night
and yet this afternoon
one bent orange kite
463
how drift like smoke
in such a heavy color
mourning cloak
464
busy squirrels
who has put away
all the girls
465
black cat
in all the yellow leaves
imagine that
466
am I that old
or is this bicycle seat
really that cold
467
my unraked yard
one squirrel
on guard
468
window fog
begins the winter
catalog
469
November doubts
about the winter --
iris sprouts
470
orange yawning gaps
wink and settle
into naps
471
Claire de Lune
twin perigees or gods
make all that moon
472
was not so bright
in thirteen decades
but still night
473
aliens -- got 'em
earth is 260
from the bottom
474
age: ability
to see the world we want to --
what "senility"?
475
earth whirls while sun stares
man names motion "time," sits still
all ages -- who cares?
476
slippers, cat, pinot,
but hanging up is walking
home in the snow
477
shaded river race
my camera fails
this heat, that space
478
this icicle felt
atomic fire, those colors
did not even melt
479
icicle and moon
and they will take themselves down
long before June
480
one finger of light
this Christmas decoration
does not wait for night
481
oyster stew
one small gray photo
my father too
482
long curl from this board
but my father's dress
was also a sword
483
musty gunny sack
Dad used to carry oats
I put it back
484
scattered snowsuits
my father's records
your children's boots
485
scars lived to see
your daughter give my sword
to enemy
486
why back so soon
to pen and cigarette
from the full moon
487
reeds tan and dry
and one shiny
brown dragonfly
488
though having the sky
even the sun throws jewels
blue dragonfly
489
lightning scrawling
even the rain
stops falling
490
why did I come back
your friends in my living room
two moons by the track
491
simply explained
warm goodbye
cold plane
492
warm chair still
warm coffee
cold chill
493
cold sill
warm coffee
warm chair still
494
warm tub
and then
how we rub
495
sparrow leader?
took three weeks
to find the feeder
496
almost September
and look
at the number
497
don't understand
lose sword
to save hand
498
have pen
no sword
since when
499
we three match
all bets
guggle to zatch
500
saved for five hundred
what else but
five hundred
501
browning page
breast-hitting-palm
smack
502
wounded butterfly
back and forth across the page
seventeen blobs dry
503
extra plate
rain turns to sleet
fire dies in the grate
504
gray predawn
meadowlark announces
you crossing my lawn
505
such a chore
to find my shorts this morning
lace on the floor
506
crisp cheese tostada
Moorhead, Minnesota
or Granada
507
Achilles, Hector
biting the dust again from
the Snack Inspector
508
Odysseus home
so much to do
before the poem
509
from the broken cane
bragging crows swagger the town
only wants a brain
510
such imprecision
I'm on the field already
Arjuna's Vision
511
rose exudes fluid
proving vegetable love
to bee and Druid
512
I pulled the great bow
and still the children voted
the way of the crow
513
some six peck and bull
then a minute for each seed
feeder still half full
514
this wolf at my door
has a collar and a tag
and wants even more
515
Great Bear
dozing through the snow
in My Chair
516
see Judge Rhenquist show
a bit more gold braid each day
time to pull the bow
517
flies swagger the house
Kitty is a small black lump
dreaming of a mouse
518
Indian giver
five days' rain and the lilac
scenting the river
519
yards and yards of words
and only peanut butter
in the baby turds
520
oh, yes, that is that
children vote to get the bell
and that there's no cat
521
three hundred years flat
still wear the same satori
not a bad frog splat
522
old moon
and your yelp
that we're doin'
523
two moons
and we
two spoons
524
tree tented white
how could worms crawl
to such a height
525
ask the wind
which blossom
it will spend
526
everything brown
but here are cattails
now I live in town
527
me
wreath
bee
528
October moon
sound of
cocoa spoon
529
school bell
only makes
crickets yell
530
fish in June
cannot touch
either moon
531
answers the sky
by being all wing
blue butterfly
532
two moons
fish smack
two moons
533
snow squeaks below
a world of snow
my legs though
534
half past three
candle and pencil
company
535
second hand creeps
over an empty page
even Kitty sleeps
536
sword rack
only the poems
come back
537
so much to do
my eyes
play with you
538
lilac today
and the bell
calls you away
539
old boards
fresh curls
three swords
540
sword
bouquet of peonies
accord
541
Kitty saw
toys through the screen
now tongue to paw
542
all this bog
whose yelling left
this little green frog
543
stone of deeds
why do we
stand in weeds
544
butterfly afield
all the freedom of the sky
-- windshield
545
July pours
even the worms
come indoors
546
winter so soon?
north wind
plum blossoms and moon
547
red, yellow and gall
and having done
leaves fall
548
tulip, leaping bass
you in the leaves, then snow
see the quick year pass
549
carpet of plum, moon,
bass bellies, mushrooms, and snow
all over so soon
550
meadowlark
seven, seven, seven
dark
551
meadowlark so far
from sky-blue morning glories
and how deep they are
552
luna and lace
deeper sensation
farther from grace
553
lace-cupped spouse
rust on the sabre
cricket in the house
554
peony shatters
I sweep it up, then back to
books in tatters
555
they light candles to
a statue who cannot read
now hard beans, too
556
h + w
and which is
seeing you
557
September sleep
iris and poems
will keep
558
red, yellow, and all
October and October
leaves still fall
559
old pond
Basho-jump-in
water-sound
560
old pond
one-hand-
clapping sound
561
old pond
throwing-you-in
water-sound
562
how lucky leaves are
to be so red and fall --
next year's calendar
563
your sandals
on the porch
two candles
564
sore feet
my lawn
windrows of wheat
565
what gall!
nine years
still a wall
566
nine years, oh, well
rose to watch the moon
wall fell
567
moonlight lingers
without a moon
white birch fingers
568
bicycle track
only the wind
holding me back
569
two bits my seat
and stained glass
to draw the heat
570
two bits in the box
and all the day's glare and heat
seeps into the rocks
571
these scrap boards
above the lake
the hordes
572
so far to see
scrap lumber
squirrels' company
573
some carpentry
Norway's shade
squirrels' company
574
and was it my loss
lilac returned to the branch
spring rain on the moss
575
and what did I lose
when plums flew back to the branch
spring rain does not choose
576
and what is the use
the lost blossom has returned
another excuse
577
old moon
another lilac week
has turned to June
578
who barks at a dog
for barking at a finger
moon and hollow log
579
full moon
lilac week
record's tune
580
born again stupid
so I can
believe in Cupid
581
this June
even the birch
bark at the moon
582
midnight loon
weathercock crowing
at the moon
583
old pond
poet jumps in
without a sound
584
same old math
to any place
one path
585
baby's "face"
many paths
one place
586
fire in grain
water in fire
fire in rain
587
one grain of wheat
universe to drink
world to eat
588
since when
did Confucius
know Zen
589
this is accord
don't ask me
ask your sword
590
baby gives pee
cow gives milk
water -- see
591
leaning the same gate
what color the irises
debate debate
592
judgment and law
condemn the world
crow caw
593
just sit
grass grows
covers it
594
do zazen
or not enough ground
to do zazen
595
master in the street
use no words, use no silence
just use your feet
596
sitting quietly there
grass growing by itself
sparrows in the hair
597
the old pine tree speaks
the Lama's a baby
the cricket squeaks
598
will learn faster
what I hear, what I see
will ask the Master
599
the water after
the water before flowing
down my rafter
600
sitting
ants running
worms shitting
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