Showing posts with label Existential angst. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Existential angst. Show all posts
Monday, August 3, 2020

Gold-Plated Casket Senryu

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my reflection looks a little younger -- gold-plated casket Failed Haiku, 5:53, May
Sunday, February 9, 2020

Dead-End Alley kyoka

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I plead for one more day alone in a dead-end alley with the Grim Reaper Failed Haiku, 4:46, 2019
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Winter Crow Tanka

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wingbeats of a winter crow I try to fend off thoughts of death and dying NeverEnding Story, December 9, 2019
Friday, October 25, 2019

Edge of Reality Tanka

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alone on the cliff edge of reality I hear the siren’s song come home, my dear . . . Atlas Poetica, 37, 2019
Thursday, October 24, 2019

Short Day and Long Night Tanka

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father murmurs the day is short the night so long ... the lines on his face grow darker and darker Atlas Poetica, 37, 2019
Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Weight Tanka

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alone on the edge of a frozen lake . . . I bear the weight of forty-year-old me Atlas Poetica, 37, 2019
Monday, September 23, 2019

Half-Empty Glass Tanka

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the winter moon in a half-empty glass this taste of my midlife gets bitter and bitter Atlas Poetica, 37, 2019
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Selected Tanka: Piece by Piece Tanka

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I'm scared I'm scared of myself... at daybreak piece by piece I try to put myself together NeverEnding Story, March 1 2016
Saturday, August 17, 2019

Birthing of Darkness Tanka

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to Dylan Thomas rage, rage against the birthing of this darkness will I be at the edge of the tunnel light NeverEnding Story, July 2...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Flat-Footed Death Tanka

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this snowy silence ... flat-footed Death   paces to and fro in the dark corridor of my aging mind NeverEnding Story, March 10, 2019
Sunday, March 17, 2019

Snow Crystals Haiku

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snow crystals in my hospital room this short life and yet ... NeverEnding Story, February 26, 2019
Friday, March 15, 2019

Headstone Tanka

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cycling alone through the graveyard I side-glance at my name on a headstone Its own place: a mindscape of tanka, 2018
Thursday, February 28, 2019

Choked by Fear Tanka

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in the claw of 3 a.m. insomnia I'm choked by fear: sleeping alone among nameless graves Its own place: a mindscape of tanka, 2018
Thursday, December 20, 2018

Selected Haiku: Letting Go Haiku

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winter wind ... let go of my past scrawled in the sand Hedgerow, 21, March 20 2015
Friday, November 9, 2018

Selected Tanka Prose: A Walking Shadow

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stage lights on . . . my copy of Macbeth battered and its cover spotted as if by white molds I start reciting in a hoarse voice...
Monday, September 17, 2018

Horizon Tanka

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lightning on the horizon . . . the years before me stretch thin Atlas Poetica, 33, 2018
Saturday, September 15, 2018

Selected Haibun: Suspended between Life and Death

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On my way to work at the meat factory, a dewy green leaf is shaken loose and blown away from a maple tree. It floats along the sidewalk. Su...
Monday, May 14, 2018

Selected Haiku: Last Cherry Petals haiku

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last cherry petals drift to the ground I miss myself Wednesday Haiku, 158, 2014
Saturday, February 17, 2018

Lengthening Shadow Tanka

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lengthening shadow on the hallway to the morgue ... I wake up sweating on the bedroom floor Atlas Poetica, 30, 2017
Saturday, January 13, 2018

Mid-Life Crisis Senryu

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this talk of mid-life crisis ... my beer gone flat Failed Haiku, 2:24, December 2017