City Tram

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 30 +1

We could not end at 30

Reflecting the times.
The beginning is ending
and starting again.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Checkstrat

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 30

Inhospitable

sunbleached, gouged by spikey boots.

Alien launch pad.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Another Empty Pool

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 29

Could it happen here,
diaspora USA?
We would go back home.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Red

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 28

Freshly painted cells
where our subconscious is caged
can't contain our hopes.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

BK Wheel

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 27

Buddha's has eight spokes
Catherine's is covered with spikes
BK's comes with fries.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Glitter

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 26

Ladies, gentlemen,
an explosion of sparkles
blinds you to the facts.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Space

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 25

I'd go if I could.
Blast off and aim for the stars.
Leave this soulless place.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Razor Wire

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 24

gold, silver, rubies.
drug dealers, sex offenders.
governments, people.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Elvis

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 23

imitators sing
el rey está muerto
shout, viva el rey!

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

No B

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 22

Youse not welcome here.
No bums, no bull, no buzzer.
Fuckin' As. That's right.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Showgirls

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 21

Enter here, young man.
Break open the locked red door.
A kiss with sharp teeth.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 20

No no no... hmm. Yes?
No no no... Well ok, maybe.
Uhhh, changed my mind. No.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Fremont Street

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 19

happiness lives here
walks among fear, filth, and loss
tiptoeing past hate.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

StripBarber

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 18

Wanted: cage dancing

haircutters for nude review
of short and curlies

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

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