April | 2009 | the haiku diaries

April 30, 2009, 7:10 pm
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: BC Fusion, girls soccer, haiku

My Thursday evening —
soccer practice in the rain —
I watched from the car.

April 30, 2009, 4:01 pm
Filed under: haiku, jenna's post | Tags: haiku, haircut, internet, online reviews

My life on the edge:
chose a hair salon based on
internet reviews.

April 30, 2009, 8:04 am
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: Cortland, Freeville, haiku, swine flu

Swine flu eight miles down
the road — will it march south on
little cloven hooves?

April 30, 2009, 8:01 am
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: haiku, swine flu, virus, weather front

Heaviness out there
and inside — just weather front?
Swine flu craziness?

April 29, 2009, 10:50 pm
Filed under: haiku, jenna's post | Tags: haiku, popcorn, snack

Waded through a big
bowl of popcorn to get to
the half-popped kernels.

April 29, 2009, 10:47 pm
Filed under: haiku, jenna's post | Tags: haiku, new york city, queens, subway, swine flu

Expected face masks
on the subway. Just saw two
teens using Purell.

April 29, 2009, 9:17 am
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: first hundred days, haiku, Obama

The first hundred days —
an Obama report card —
pundits say all’s well.

Arlen Specter does
a flip — it’s a full flip-flop —
for the Democrats.

April 28, 2009, 10:01 pm
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: depression, haiku

Feeling blue — so blue —
a deep, dark blue the color
of an Arctic dusk.

April 28, 2009, 9:20 am
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: Freeville, haiku, pigeon

Pigeon walks the roof
head bobbing, cooing — cooo cooo —
who will be my mate?

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