November 30, 2008

Should have remembered:
waiting for things to happen
doesn't make them come

November 29, 2008

Fifty thousand words
is not insurmountable;
enough for a month.

November 28, 2008

moutainous skyline
brings inspiration worth more
than the gems within

(another novel-inspired haiku, as I don't actually live anywhere near any mountains)

November 27, 2008

Mistaken signals
cause awkward situations
late in the evening

(As a word-padding exercises for Nanowrimo, I've started including haiku epithets at the head of each of the chapters of my novel. This is one that I wrote tonight, for Chapter 10)

November 26, 2008

last-minute moments:

going under the wire

with seconds to spare.

November 25, 2008

little purple bar
showing what others have done,
taunting me always

November 24, 2008

going through motions
hoping things will get better,
waiting for closure

November 23, 2008

Sometimes, 3 AM
is when we can be our best
and most creative

November 22, 2008

the only problem
with setting with constant guide posts?
they tend to confound.

November 21, 2008

paradise disturbed
by the petty jealousies
that we bring to it

November 20, 2008 - First snowfall

A cold, wet blanket
making everything seem pure,
for awhile, at least

November 19, 2008

I can be at peace.
No snakes in suburbia,
that's what they tell me

November 18, 2008

this is a haiku:
slavish devotion to words.
this is not haiku

November 17, 2008

glasses fogging up
as warm air meets with cold face
in late afternoon

November 16, 2008

Like salmon, upstream,
trapped within cramped surroundings.
poor subway riders.

November 15, 2008

getting to half-way,
assembling all the pieces
and pushing forward.

November 14, 2008

smooth lies issue from
the archons' slippery tongues;
heed them at your risk

November 13, 2008 - thoughts in a coffee shop

It's hard to decide
what's more intoxicating,
the coffee, or words...

November 12, 2008

just when you're thinking
"I've got it all figured out,"
Suddenly - ninja!

November 11, 2008

just a dot of red;
poppies for rememberance,
never to forget

November 10, 2008

it doesn't add up;
keep perfection in numbers,
life is too complex

November 9, 2008

it's just that simple:
good music, good food, good friends,
nothing more needed

Novmeber 8, 2008

wisdom is knowing
every situation starts
in medias res

November 7, 2008

an eye on the prize,
and two hands at the keyboard;
success brings itself.

November 6, 2008

a fresh beginning:
"the audacity of hope"
converting cynics

November 5, 2008

It's time to admit

(and I think everybody knows)

you're not vous, but tu

(I find language fascinating, especially the idea in some languages of multiple forms of 'you' depending on how familar you are with the person.  I imagine it would create no shortage of issues when the wrong form is used at the wrong time)

November 4, 2008

Yearly ritual
bringing a start to winter,
helping to mark time.

November 3, 2008

always in a rush
for things I knew were coming
where did the time go?

November 2, 2008

Yearly ritual

put back that which went forward

dance, not knowing why.

November 1, 2008

drunken cross-dressing:
a Halloween tradition
stretching back for years.