12 Loose screw Haiku/Senryu IV - Hi Ho and so it goes… by David Hillmanhole cover steams
pretzel man sips hot cocoa
big city winter
behind the diner
hungry hobo roots through waste
stray dog waits his turn
charcoal shaded sky
smoke stained factory death town
starling on a wire
street corner cleric
hurls daggers of dogma
walkers hasten past
dough balls for catfish
Memphis nighttime skyline blues
“Moon River” and me
hound dog named Monet
paints in browns and yellows
our yard, his canvas
return engagement
military bravado
lessons to relearn
oxymoron
gated community
Orwell’s doublethink
Night Train Express Wine
“I hear that train a comin’”
passed out on the track
man with no name
sits upon a bucket
claims he’ll work for food
old metal trailer
plastic reindeer on the roof
even in July
Mega-mall Santa
on the men’s room’s regal throne
reads the news and smokes
from a Cape May wharf
my zeppelin kite last seen
bound for England
11/25/2009 Author's Note: …just laughin’…and singin’…in the rain (dottle-doot-doot dootle dootle-doot-doot)
Posted on 11/26/2009 Copyright © 2024 David Hill
Member Comments on this Poem |
Posted by Charlie Morgan on 11/26/09 at 04:27 PM ...minimalism in words, yet you describe soooooo much, well done, david, well done. |
Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 11/28/09 at 04:15 PM These are fine little gems. My fav today is the hound dog named Monet. I suspect tomorrow another will take its place. ;) |
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