simply senryu

haunted by old haiku

..

haunted hayride
the weekend dad
holds on tight

photo: of Lissa by Arthur Giacalone (2000)
poem: David Giacalone

October 30
the fridge bulb
flickers and dies

October 30th is Haunted Refrigerator Night
see Wellcat.com

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cuddle season

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they say it's good luck

. . as noted today at dagosan's haiku diary,
crickets have been on my mind this week,
as seems to happen every September . .

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Pestival?

- We're sorry to be missing out on the Pestival ginko (haiku stroll) in London tomorrow (September 5, 2009), with Roberta Beary and Alan Summers, at Royal Festival Hall.

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August in Maine

- orig. pub. in HaigaOnline Spring/Summer 2007 Vol. 8-1; photo by Arthur Giacalone

Big Wave to Kin & Kith: Arthur, Coral, Lissa and James, and their hosts John and Marianne, in Biddefore, ME.

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behind closed eyelids

. . . on a sultry August day, a nap in the shade or a trip to an air-conditioned art museum seems in order:

light show
behind eyelids -
free admission

poem: DAVID GIACALONE
photo: ARTHUR GIACALONE

. . haiga orig. posted at MagnaPoetsJF, April 25, 2007 . .

- window by Frank Lloyd Wright, MOMA -

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more kisses more chocolate

- This is our annual reminder that July 6 is International Kissing Day and July 7 is Chocolate Day. Find out much more and check out related haiku and senryu at the f/k/a post "let's celebrate kissing and chocolate" (July 5, 2008). Despite what the nuns told us in grammar school, kisses and chocolate are heavenly.

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go fourth and grill

- find fireworks (and watermelon) haiku and senryu by the f/k/a family of poets here; and photos of the annual Jumpin' Jack's fireworks display in Scotia, NY, taken from my backyard along the Mohawk River, there, at my photoblog -

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another fatherless Father's Day

putting on my socks –
that little grunt
dad always made

………….… orig. pub. -Frogpond (XXVIII: 2, 2005); inside the mirror: The Red Moon Anthology 2005

- - find summer solstice poems here and here at f/k/a; and also go here and here for Father's Day haiku and senryu -

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james's first game

squinting to see him –
another generation
sent to right field

- photo: Arthur Giacalone; poem originally published Roadrunner Haiku Journal (Issue V:4; Nov. 2005), tie for The Scorpion Prize; repub. in Baseball Haiku (Ed. Cor van den Heuvel, Nanae Tamura, W.W. Norton Press, 2007)

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condensation

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another Memorial Day tear

taps’ last echo -
the vietnam protestor
wipes a tear

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to mom's house

- orig. pub. Simply Haiku (Modern Haiga, Summer 2009, Vol. 7 no. 2) -
photo: Western Gateway Bridge, over the Mohawk River (Oct. 8, 2008),
from the Schenectady Stockade District -

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mother's day

dad on the sofa
mom at the stove . . .
mother's day

- click for the f/k/a mother's day haiku collection -

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