bill kilpatrick haiku

mezzanotte haiku

2012-01-26T15:27:00.000-08:00

words like birds above
choose a few to make a song
my heart is waiting

black book haiku

2012-01-14T00:31:00.000-08:00

bible study groups
five books of moses, quran
black ice, the wrong snow

nature of things haiku

2012-01-13T02:16:00.000-08:00

sunlight on water
majestic indifference
we are all we have

prometheus haiku

2012-01-10T09:54:00.000-08:00

the gift of fire
no one's watching over us
a clear sky at night

la befana haiku

2012-01-07T15:46:00.000-08:00

too good to be true
house is quiet - dogs asleep
almost a full moon

no regrets haiku

2011-12-15T15:14:00.000-08:00

retiring monk
worn steps and smooth stone paving
sun, snow, wind and rain

watching the news haiku

2011-12-13T15:42:00.000-08:00

metallic moonglow
see what does not concern us
we should be baying

scotch whiskey haiku

2011-10-03T14:52:00.000-07:00

if i could wake up
feeling like i do tonight
life would be better

cat stevens haiku

2011-09-20T04:26:00.001-07:00

on stevens' forehead
the moon sat on the cat
- star rendered yuseless

left foot haiku

2011-04-23T05:16:00.000-07:00

the old night watchman
out from under the covers
as i wake from dreams

spring at last haiku

2011-04-04T02:55:00.000-07:00

soft russet sunshine
patchy mist fills the lowlands
second day of spring

rolling stones haiku

2010-12-13T15:35:00.000-08:00

silence of the stone
all the things that make us us
here we are, older

blue blurred words tattoo haiku

2010-11-28T16:19:00.000-08:00

life is very long
beautiful girl with tattoo
you will become old

god is great-ing haiku

2010-11-28T14:56:00.000-08:00

uff, mumbo-jumbo
just us, alone together
plagued with fantasy

thanksgiving haiku

2010-11-25T09:08:00.000-08:00

bible's promised land
plant, grow and reap the harvest
slaughter red devils

auttuno toscano

2010-11-19T02:49:00.000-08:00

robin's egg blue sky
russet reds and evergreen
wood smoke and gun shots

sunrise to sunset
mediterranean light
better for the cold

remembrance day

2010-11-11T16:36:00.000-08:00

remembrance day
just like it never happened
daddy's home again

old tattoo haiku

2010-10-26T02:53:00.000-07:00

bland, wrinkled faces
without a trace of passion
tattoos say it all

2010-09-21T16:36:00.000-07:00

looking at two moons
a-oom-ma-gumma-gumma
too much scotch whiskey

2010-05-25T15:31:00.000-07:00

very old nazis
you must know what is waiting
life is very long

la foce

2010-02-23T06:28:00.000-08:00

diana

2010-02-23T06:26:00.000-08:00

svetlana alliluyeva poem

2009-12-12T06:17:00.000-08:00

what many fail to see
is that my father
was a very good communist

mandolin haiku - part 2

2009-11-08T15:37:00.000-08:00

mandolin in hand
step outside in the moonlight
... music, life - ah life!

mandolin in lap
what became of old girl friends?
life is long music

feral cat haiku

2009-07-23T08:47:00.000-07:00

back door left open
freshly made bed with clean sheets
tell-tale cat hairs

walking in the fog haiku

2009-02-14T00:34:00.000-08:00

dark and menacing
tree trunks looming through the fog
reality check

"into the wild" haiku

2009-02-13T00:29:00.000-08:00

arms and legs thrashing
fighting against the current
traveling downstream

- written after seeing "into the wild" - sean penn's film about the short life of christopher mccandless.

walking in the fog II haiku

2009-02-04T02:42:00.000-08:00

walking in a fog
trees amble out of the mist
silent still watching

the hunter haiku

2009-02-03T07:55:00.000-08:00

a deer bows to drink
hooves and tongue ripple the lake
reflections waver

parental mistakes - poem

2009-02-01T02:13:00.001-08:00

...

gold in the folds
of the poet’s coat

clumsy, parental hands
threading and needling
hard-edged currency
between the woven layers

a wealth of defining moments
to be counted and recounted

- written after reading the collected poems of william corbett

parental mistakes - haiku

2009-01-31T08:53:00.000-08:00

parental mistakes
sewn inside the poet's coat
hoarded, rarely spent

la folia poems

2009-01-30T10:58:00.000-08:00

I

dodecanese (lipsos)
...
sun-cast shadows
scented sheets
lavender and us
touch of skin
the day begins
sounds of being joyus

II

sons - no. 1
...
i am now
what you will be
you are what i have been

we will find
peace of mind
growing in
our garden

III

bread
...
our rise and undoing
and a world in between
is paring us back
to what we have been

one by one
endlessly
we rise and fall
in the empty sea

IV

gov. sarah palin
...
collusion with a priest
in protection from the witch
presupposes
belief they exist

if we all give the power to palin
will we all get the horror of salem?

music haiku

2009-01-22T06:02:00.000-08:00

between the fingers
from one hand to another
so the music goes

media

2008-12-17T15:37:00.000-08:00

please never find me
smiling at the camera
explaining, pleading

NSEW mandolin haiku

2008-10-30T10:22:00.000-07:00

eastern light of dawn
falls upon my mandolin
songs of dark promise

sunshine from the west
light warming my mandolin
songs of thanksgiving

northern exposure
my mandolin is glowing
a cool containment

southern exposure
russet colored mandolin
cerulean sky

gayle williams haiku

2008-10-20T14:15:00.000-07:00

idiots with guns
how to kill a smiling girl
taleban problem

siena haiku

2008-10-20T06:29:00.000-07:00

jet trail in the sky
on the road to siena
slowly fades away

william blake mandolin haiku

2008-08-10T05:55:00.001-07:00

awake in the night
tiger maple burning bright
scroll-ful symmetry

mandolin wear n' tear haiku

2008-07-11T00:58:00.000-07:00

lustrous shiny back
glassy-smooth grip up the neck
soundboard chewed to bits

machete haiku

2008-05-18T14:27:00.000-07:00

light in the forest
through dense swathes of undergrowth
bra'wee machete

(the "machete" is a small, 4-stringed instrument, very much like a ukulele.)

good fortune haiku

2007-12-17T06:35:00.000-08:00

reservoirs of luck
wet foot prints left in the dark
serendipity

cornwall connecticut haiku

2007-11-06T11:02:00.000-08:00

i missed the weddings
births, affairs and divorces
funerals can wait

diane arbus haiku

2007-11-04T22:09:00.000-08:00

imagine being
subject to her camera
and living with it

usa weather report haiku

2007-11-02T04:12:00.000-07:00

mid-west was "pleasant"
up north by the lakes was "cool"
down south it was "nice"

ukulele origin haiku

2007-10-25T10:39:00.001-07:00

a braguinha
in the folds of a muumuu
evokes jumping fleas

dry cleaning lady haiku

2007-10-24T15:26:00.000-07:00

folding pink tissue
simple elegant movement
dry cleaning lady

frost haiku

2007-10-14T23:30:00.000-07:00

poetic yankee
flying across the ocean
a frosted window

tourist attraction

2007-10-14T03:24:00.000-07:00

dante on a bridge
saw the woman of his dreams
- olympus at home

angry old goat haiku

2007-10-13T10:05:00.000-07:00

old man in a room
shouting at the silver screen
captain of contempt

family photo haiku

2007-09-22T07:50:00.000-07:00

the well is poisoned
walls and roof are caving in
a thief in the house

perseids

2007-08-15T12:04:00.000-07:00

out back looking up
searching for some shooting stars
san lorenzo tears

love and a question

2007-06-29T09:06:00.001-07:00

a line-storm song

2007-06-25T08:06:00.000-07:00

on taking from the top to broaden the base

2007-06-15T12:13:00.001-07:00

the tuft of flowers

2007-06-13T00:26:00.000-07:00

my november guest

2007-06-08T04:06:00.001-07:00

going for water

2007-06-05T05:31:00.001-07:00

acceptance

2007-05-31T22:47:00.000-07:00

reluctance

2007-05-26T04:46:00.001-07:00

flower pot haiku

2007-05-10T02:24:00.000-07:00

fragrant white lily
passing time by the window
petals start to fall

2007-05-02T02:38:00.001-07:00

rec.music.early haiku

2007-05-02T01:33:00.000-07:00

I

childish fit of pique
personality disorder
e-embarrassing

II

outside my window
big nurse retraces her steps
tapping on the glass

oud haiku

2007-05-02T01:29:00.000-07:00

I

playing my oud nude
while waiting for the shower
red welts, ribs and thigh

II

from a desert cave
deep down, dark and resonant
a drop of water

makin' whoopee haiku

2007-05-02T01:12:00.001-07:00

get married, have kids
stop all that fooling around
"tell me what'd i say"

mispent youth haiku

2007-05-02T01:09:00.000-07:00

hallucination
any mention of "owsley"
really brings me back

haiku rules haiku

2007-05-02T01:01:00.000-07:00

do you know the rules
of composing a haiku?
we're counting on you

"non, je ne regrette rien" - edith piaf must have been a robot haiku

2007-05-02T00:52:00.000-07:00

shouldn't have said that
would have done it different
photo-less wallet

plucky little chordophone haiku

2007-05-02T00:46:00.001-07:00

I

hard to imagine
living life to the fullest
with no strings attached

II

winter wet outside
scale practice by the window
cabin fever theme

III

toe tapping hubby
recollects their favorite song
soothing savage spouse

IV

remember darling ...
"shimmy shimmy coco pop"
sweaty in the gym

mandolin haiku

2007-05-02T00:45:00.000-07:00

I
cool, calm demeanor
gazing at the computer
- just riddled with MAS

II - mandolin player birthday haiku
tante auguri
felice melodie
mandolinista

III
head hurts, fingers cramped
much to learn, so little time
Over-the-Hill U.

IV
sniffing my crafter's
carbon composite sound hole
- gibson sweet it ain't

V
stephen foster tunes
american in paris
mandomondolin

VI
working out old songs
while waiting for the shower
red welts ribs and thigh

VII
fourty-years ago
new york pawn shop mandolin
- i didn't get it

VIII
repaired mandolin
from elderly instruments
like a spring chicken

IX
murmuring low notes
and the sense its tuning makes
- first thoughts when waking

X
paypal emptied out
anti-mas mantra break down
immaturity

XI
wide awake, can't sleep
a mandolin lullaby
will rouse everyone

XII
money to music
waiting for it to happen
bowl back in the post

XIII
nameless old german
bought for nothing on ebay
patiently teaching

XIV
limericks are fun
as are celtic mandolins
puns and pints in pubs

XV
ants and busy bees
hand me down my mandolin
crickets play their part

XVI
mandolin in hand
ebay mandola on screen
what is happiness?

XVII
reaching geezer age
dropping dead becomes normal
must learn one hornpipe

XVIII
too many haiku
makes beaucoup loco low-ku
- and so, off to bed

XVIIII
perched upon my thigh
warm, embracing lap dancer
zoftig mandolin

XX
i'm a believer
that no-name, ebay oval
i know it's out there

charango haiku

2007-05-02T00:29:00.001-07:00

I
iberian men
brought their vihuelas with them
hola aloha

II
old world vihuela
catchy Quechua rhythms
vibrant dinosaur

III
in a dream i played
my charango on the street
what do dreams tell us?

IV
in a waking dream
i played the paris metro
down maybe - not out

V
from an empty bowl
delicate ripples of sound
always on my mind

VI
bowl-back vihuela
chiseled like a citole
old world charm-ango

12th fret charango haiku

2007-05-02T00:27:00.000-07:00

I

macho man hip thrust
"tinky-tink" cacophony
beyond the 12th fret

II

below the 12th fret
each note rings true, sweet and clear
above 12 they "tink"

wet shoes haiku

2007-05-02T00:26:00.001-07:00

ripples in the lake
smooth, semicircular waves
moving through the trees