Tag Archives: art

Want vs. Care

For want of a seed the shoot was lost. For want of a shoot the plant was lost. For want of a plant the flower was lost. For want of a flower the bee was lost. For want of a bee the plant was lost. For want of a plant the food was lost. For […]

Light, A Distant Vista

Responsible, preoccupied, needs, daily duties, urges to create Atlas beneath my half sky inventing my truth in beauty before I’m late Days fast-paced, so full of shoulds and musts to meet and answer When so few seek either truth or beauty; they don’t pay the financier Is shielding the candle flame from darkness worth the […]

TRIKU II

Triku ~ 5-7-5 ~ equals three word Haiku.  I try to give them some sense or make them humorous and I think I succeeded in most cases. Here are my next seven. I hope you enjoy my word play. Indiscriminate Inconsequentially Cannibalistic Pronunciation: Denuclearization Mythological Archeology: Memorialization Figuratively Puritanism: Polarization Continuation Politically Antiglobalization Abnormality Technically […]

Headline Haiku

This is my form of haiku which embraces our modern world by using only words culled from the headlines and sub-heads found in my daily newspaper. I hope to discover a sense, a tone of daily life. I do not change words, other than in the use of capitalization and hyphenated words used adjectively. Chronic […]

FICTIONAL REALITY

When we visit a museum or gallery, read a book or watch a movie we tend to believe the art, the creative expression portrays what the artist saw. But are we sure? I’m not referring to style. I am not willing to say that Dali, Bosch, Escher and others didn’t see the worlds the created. […]

Headline Haiku

Below, please find more haiku pulled from the headlines, subheads and captions in my daily newspaper. Chronic gunman shoots Discrimination limits Opinions galore Turf familiar Struggling struck nullified Sabbath gasbags high Aimless bullet hit Death sentence, least really care Storytelling adults Willing to bluff fatal People urged push, judges rule Lobbyists focus Life rose far […]