club sticks of pride
memory homicide
drifting candlesticks
brisk as steeples chase
homeward candles night
shaking sticks as cried
alder benign
bumbling means of crime
fired as two chipped bowls
littered as five fox
dressings tempered piers
feckled each plea
washing each crime
overflow rich
casket each walk
as candles blow
twice herding pride
sent sampling darkness
darning each light
stitching each stich
blinding each blind
mooning each light
inch by colored inch
wide as each line
blind as each fly
washing each breakfast crime
starching each way
bright as quay wrath
nearing each stitch
gone as gone
caught as catch
wandering breeze
each catcher rise
size becoming
six eight center
breeze throw
trees slide
jungle free
seismic wake
before each after
six each nine
no time
add a terse
tenser fine
no cribbage stop
hide crabwise
all on board
side sword
homicide cried
plot six nine five
colored and died.
Denis Streeter 6/18/14
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Friday, May 2, 2014
Slant-Tilt, Rhyme Haiku
No explanation on this one. Just more than one meaning.
Chevro Chevrolet
Haiku Honda Pi-ro-let
Chevro Honda lent.
Denis Streeter 5/2/14
Chevro Chevrolet
Haiku Honda Pi-ro-let
Chevro Honda lent.
Denis Streeter 5/2/14
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Magic games
the toys that led the sidewalks walking
were separating circles from squares
the squares played hopscotch and
the rubber ball led the way
it was odd the way
the sidewalks unearthed the earth
like square footprints walking
it was thirteen o'clock no one noticed
except a few and they weren't telling
the toys that led the sidewalks walking
gathered in some nameless park
that knew no religion or language
just the games of sidewalk earth
that thirteen o'clock played
the children gathered skipping in their sleep
the air breathed its silent whisper
children pavement into air
breathless mice aware
they were not telling
the toys that led the sidewalks walking
felt the time hit two
one or sixty they knew what to do
toys to squares and circles magic merry round
back to perfect puzzle piecing place
the rubber ball bounced silently in place
tracing children mice back into space
the magic wavering when split in two
the timing knew exactly what to do.
Denis Streeter 4/16/14
were separating circles from squares
the squares played hopscotch and
the rubber ball led the way
it was odd the way
the sidewalks unearthed the earth
like square footprints walking
it was thirteen o'clock no one noticed
except a few and they weren't telling
the toys that led the sidewalks walking
gathered in some nameless park
that knew no religion or language
just the games of sidewalk earth
that thirteen o'clock played
the children gathered skipping in their sleep
the air breathed its silent whisper
children pavement into air
breathless mice aware
they were not telling
the toys that led the sidewalks walking
felt the time hit two
one or sixty they knew what to do
toys to squares and circles magic merry round
back to perfect puzzle piecing place
the rubber ball bounced silently in place
tracing children mice back into space
the magic wavering when split in two
the timing knew exactly what to do.
Denis Streeter 4/16/14
Friday, April 11, 2014
Signpost starlings
The title is a way of including two William Mayne quotes. William Mayne has written nearly 100 children's books since 1953.
John and Alice were looking at a
signpost where two roads joined
each other. Alice was looking at
it more than John was. She was
looking at it all over, but he was
reading it.
"It's like a pencil with wings,"
said Alice. "What did it write on
itself?
"It wrote some words I don't
know," said John...Signpost have
names of places on them."
The Water Boatman, William Mayne, 1964, pages 5-7 (illustration shows pencil like signpost)
Another William Mayne quote:
There was a noise like a wheel spinning on a dry axle. It
came down the chimney after the kettle had been lifted
off the fire. Mother wondered if it was the boiler behind
the red coal about to burst, but Daddy, who was out in
the yard mixing cement, said it was a gathering of
starlings on the roof looking for lodging.
First page of The Changeling by William Mayne, 1961
William Mayne tilts your thinking of the ordinary.
John and Alice were looking at a
signpost where two roads joined
each other. Alice was looking at
it more than John was. She was
looking at it all over, but he was
reading it.
"It's like a pencil with wings,"
said Alice. "What did it write on
itself?
"It wrote some words I don't
know," said John...Signpost have
names of places on them."
The Water Boatman, William Mayne, 1964, pages 5-7 (illustration shows pencil like signpost)
Another William Mayne quote:
There was a noise like a wheel spinning on a dry axle. It
came down the chimney after the kettle had been lifted
off the fire. Mother wondered if it was the boiler behind
the red coal about to burst, but Daddy, who was out in
the yard mixing cement, said it was a gathering of
starlings on the roof looking for lodging.
First page of The Changeling by William Mayne, 1961
William Mayne tilts your thinking of the ordinary.
Monday, March 10, 2014
denisku
Updated today
Is this tangential reasoning? I've never seen an explanation I can understand. Last night I got stranded in my Toyota Corolla sedan (innocuous right) near Concrete, WA. I was driving in near 6 inches of snow and rain. Three hours earlier I was running a trip for wiper blades when a road rock that looked like a chunk of snow flattened my front right tire. Apparently there was an avalanche earlier. I will let you compute the order and time element. I can't. My brain energy has risen about one third and diminished about 2/3 or is it that 1/3.
I am my own worst editor but apparently still have a sense of humor I think.
A denisku haiku is e=2/3mc2, e = time related energy, c = speed of light, t = time for the last six to twelve months where t is the unknown element
Is this tangential reasoning? I've never seen an explanation I can understand. Last night I got stranded in my Toyota Corolla sedan (innocuous right) near Concrete, WA. I was driving in near 6 inches of snow and rain. Three hours earlier I was running a trip for wiper blades when a road rock that looked like a chunk of snow flattened my front right tire. Apparently there was an avalanche earlier. I will let you compute the order and time element. I can't. My brain energy has risen about one third and diminished about 2/3 or is it that 1/3.
I am my own worst editor but apparently still have a sense of humor I think.
A denisku haiku is e=2/3mc2, e = time related energy, c = speed of light, t = time for the last six to twelve months where t is the unknown element
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Serendipitous faces
Probably have the wrong Superfluity site but University Congregational Church in the 98105 prefix is having a wonderful serendipity sale on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. I believe the sale starts midweek and mid April on the 17, 18, and 19th, but it could be the week before. Check the University Congregation Church website for more accurate times. The presale is a $5 donation at the door for an always crowded and fabulous opening night from 7-9pm. There's lunch served on Friday as well as food, baked goods, and anything home made is encouraged. Get there early! The line starts over an hour before opening and can get pretty crazy. It's the ultimate buyers rush! Check out their books, videos, DVD's, and antique treasures. There also have lots of household items. Tons more great stuff I have left out. Great fun if you can take the hoarding mentality pleasures. Happy hunting!
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