A tiny triumph
When you have a stranger's cat
Rub against your hand
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Night at library
All the homeless people have
Nicer bags than mine
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Can you forgive me
If I don't blog everyday?
We open Friday

Black cat window-sits
Watches birds show off outside
Plots world dominion

Hang in coffeehouse
Everyone wearing black but
Too rich for beatniks

She is a hippie
She's always dropping acid
...She's very clumsy

A Haiku Review

Shuffle on over
To Cripple of Inishmaan
It's fecking brilliant

Leap into the day
Before first robin of Spring
You need a first worm

Watching Irish play
The music of the language
Matches rain on roof

Won't drink scotch again
Don't think it agrees with me
Because I'm Irish

February day
The world is my birthday cake
With frosting of snow

Wouldn't mind hearing
"Who are you?  You are pretty!"
If not said by Mom

Evening in bed
Wrapped in alabaster arms
A really good book
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Reading Neruda
First I get hot and bothered
Then I feel Chile

Sunday-Jack Benny
Magnificent Montague
Oak Park Arms at Two

A Haiku Review

Out of a Bad Seed
Grows some unusual fruit
Enjoyable show

A Haiku Review

One for the Money
Achievement in cinema
It kept me awake

Sorry I missed one
See, it was Valentine's Day
Hope you understand
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Unexpected gift
Day after Valentine's Day
I have lost two pounds

If Saint Valentine
Saw money made in his name
He would want a cut

I am a poet
Like Emily Dickinson
But without the hope

Long cold evening
Laying on his side of bed
I can smell his musk

It would be gray day
Even if the sun came out
Our dog had seizure

In my neighborhood
Sadly the election signs
All look uniform

February morn
The world is silent...except
For pip of a bird

Midwinter evening
The cat rubs up against me
You can't have my beer

Empire Carpeting
Is taking over Luna...
They'e carpet munching

Men in tight pants run
You don't even need a duck
To get a touchdown

Killing your body
Will damn you to Hell, but what
If you kill your soul?

Amaretto sun
It sinks ever so slowly
Into orange clouds

Will Phil see shadow?
Groundhogs, like most weathermen
Lack accuracy

February night
Walking home from library
Smell of barbeque

Balmy winter day
One of my favorite things...
Highlighting new script

Winter evening
As I get under covers
My cat joins me too

Haiku is too short
To get drunk upon poem
Just a bit tipsy

January sun
The woods hold no dark secrets
When covered in snow

Under the shower
Cupping my ear in my hand
I can hear ocean

Sorry I missed day
My computer was broken
I blame solar flares
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January morn
The tree branches move stiffly
As does this poet

The old frozen pond
A set of footprints lead in
But do not lead out

Both of our housecats
Who used to hate each other
Now sleep side by side

Die serving country?
Don't even get live bugler
"Taps" played on cd

Please forgive me if
My poetry is oily
I wrote at White Castle

Some think poem is good
Just because it is lengthy...
Size doesn't matter!

Look, here she comes now!
The weird girl who acts in plays
Office celebrity

Got role I wanted
So I am milking the cow
That jumped over moon

Live in the moment
Every minute is gift
You just wasted one

Are you surviving
But not really living up?
Ben Dooley can help

http://www.bedo.org/

Went to audition
Director said, "Act nervous!"
Wasn't difficult

Went to book signing
If you want to sell some books
Might want to say, "Hi!"

It's formal snowstorm
Because all of the fenceposts
Are wearing top hats
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The streets are cleared:  That's
Our new town slogan, "Come to
Lombard and get plowed!"

Today is the day
We've gone all winter without
Hot Chocolate weather

I hate mammograms!
They squeeze your breasts but they don't
Buy you dinner first

Gazing at the moon...
The worst thing about acting
Is waiting to do it

A Haiku Review

Heard "Hair" revival
Too clean-cut, as if sung by
New Christy Minstrels

Suburban Sunday
That little white picket fence
Laying on the ground

Midwestern winter?
Think I'll go sit on my deck
Work on my freckles

God as audience
Disgusted, He left the show
At intermission

Reincarnation?
I hope not-it's bad enough
Being born just once

Winter heat wave
Watching the sweaty young men
Practice karate

January 5th, 2012

One must sing and dance
When dining with cannibals
You're the entree act

January 4, 2012

Guess Michelle Bachman
Didn't take care of business
Her drive is over

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Deported for not
Paying for her breast implants
Charges inflated?

January 3, 2012

It's not good grooming
To have to uncurl your hair
With a screwdriver

January 2, 2012

Waiting in the car
Lone snowflake on the windshield
Keeps me company

New Year's Haiku

Another new year
As we finish up one book
We open a new one

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New Year's Eve party
I did not get crazy drunk
More like sleepy drunk

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Fifteenth New Year's Eve
My husband proposed to me
All over again

Welcome

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