close-talking Jesus
please move back a little; your
thorns are scratching me
close-talking Jesus
please move back a little; your
thorns are scratching me
Posted by Tom Busillo on April 16, 2013
http://monsterbegood.com/2013/04/16/close-talking-jesus-haiku/
You are so human.
You’ve always lived on a gas called oxygen,
and you always will.
Posted by Tom Busillo on February 9, 2013
http://monsterbegood.com/2013/02/09/you-are-so-human-a-5-11-5-haiku/
I had breakfast set in a splendid valley.
It was wet and more or less all over everything.
I ate it like I was a deer, then was shot.
Posted by Tom Busillo on February 8, 2013
http://monsterbegood.com/2013/02/08/deer-dream-a-11-13-11-haiku/
climate change skeptics
disgusting and ridiculous in a dance club
growing very small glaciers
Posted by Tom Busillo on November 27, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/11/27/this-can-also-be-the-soul-a-5-12-7-haiku/
Still on Moby Dick?
They say it’s no mere whale tale,
but I’m not that sure.
I do remember
if you meet the narrator
you call him Ishmael.
Posted by Tom Busillo on May 8, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/05/08/moby-dick-haiku-%e2%80%8b/
I had logs in a good spot,
only to decide to have a bonfire,
and the room went up in smoke.
blackout poem, source: “Fungi Fundamentals,” Beth D’Addono, Philadelphia Daily News, 2/9/12, p. 26.
Posted by Tom Busillo on February 9, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/02/09/i-had-logs-7-10-7-haiku/
you can always see
the mountain when it’s cloudy
close your eyes and see
we have etched it there
inside both of your eyelids
we thought you’d like it
two-stanza bizarro haiku
Posted by Tom Busillo on January 27, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/01/27/you-can-always-see-the-mountain/
Posted by Tom Busillo on January 7, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/01/07/supermarket-haiku/
cold broth from a box
as the kindness of strangers
don’t come with a stove
Posted by Tom Busillo on December 31, 2011
http://monsterbegood.com/2011/12/31/box-of-trader-joes-beef-broth-on-a-bench-at-a-bus-stop-new-years-eve/
so few are the CON-
SEQUENCES OF Syd Barrett
ON Khmer culture?
Posted by Tom Busillo on December 2, 2011
http://monsterbegood.com/2011/12/02/haiku/