Bail Two

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 17

red leads anger past
pink's plump loveliness into
gray's dark labyrinth.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Burrito

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 16

Bombastic taco
that's what a burrito is
don't be so fancy

Today's haiku brought to you by Frederick Merrill Samuel Bailie, age 11.

http://haikuconfab.blogspot.com/2011/02/burrito.html

Old New

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 15

Containers, coffers
bottles, bags, cities, people.
discard when empty.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Fenced In

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 14

redemption is found

under the sign of the cross,
where drunks, pigeons sleep.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Empty Nest

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 13

Stripped cleared scrubbed swept stacked
sorted divided arranged
discussed settled sold

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Gifts4U

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 12

In hell's fifth circle
eternity spent rowing
for t-shirts and hats

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Inside

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 11


Deconstructing truth.
Identity. Certainty.
Logic of despair.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Old Growth

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 10

Who lived here, loved here?

Can you hear that? It's the sound
of our dreams dying.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Fallout

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 9

When does metaphor

morph into reality?
We're the red menace.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Weed and Wall

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 8

Forget herbicide.

Your poison won't stop us
from coming for you.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Fremont

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 7

I'm looking for God
anywhere everywhere
unlikely places

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Eat

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 6

dirt, crow, humble pie
my shorts, your words, my hat, shit.
you eat with that mouth?

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

City Center

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 5

Cities are like hands
nimble and strong in their youth
gnarled near the end.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Atomic Liquors

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 4

Brain cells flash and burn
hot as a house fire fast as
a life spent waiting.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Scratch

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 3

This ain't no peep show
you can scratch your way into.
Pay up or fuck off.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Dry Pool

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 2

Harsh light of high noon
disrobes our hidden places.
Lays the widow bare.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

hollly

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 1

Daddy's little girl

reflects a ruined culture

that's for sale, dirt cheap.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Sharp

color

Thinking

i've been thinking about this one.