The Haiku Blog of Beautiful Fury

living grasp, the air

2012-02-12T12:15:00.002-05:00

gustly atmosphere
and through it trembling bristles
course sky-torn sailors

to prefer what is not lost

2011-09-26T00:36:00.003-04:00

witness the miser
once two-note talon turning
underneath the mount

objects of vigil's circumstance

2011-04-28T00:17:00.000-04:00

coastal sentinel
would that he could drift and swim
leave that coastal post

fragment detective agency

2010-12-21T03:51:00.002-05:00

uniform suited
single pixel spectacle
elementary

for science

2010-12-18T23:26:00.003-05:00

boggy beaker leaks
lightning streaks, strange critters squeak
and a madman drinks

the keeper's hidden beacon burns

2010-12-05T22:48:00.006-05:00

stark oppressing depths
allow my secret lantern
when covered and closed

he carries a map to an equivalent being

2010-11-29T21:15:00.003-05:00

biject the impulse
tones morphous below my flesh,
shape me on a wave

everywhere we go can kill us

2010-11-15T23:22:00.000-05:00

restless blaze the souls
of bold starlight explorers
determined to know

tristimulated retina

2010-11-15T23:19:00.000-05:00

bright hand sensory
share-dropping down dawn gift bed
again guidance flares

tight-rope walker

2010-10-27T12:25:00.000-04:00

quickened senses, care
my center, my guard against
upward-calling earth

living through the underground

2010-10-14T23:44:00.003-04:00

a lonely station

waits between tunnel machines

hulking in the deep air

sister mud forgives

2010-09-08T14:29:00.003-04:00

grizzled tender one

a rasp-toned gospel pouring

from old wounds of love

nest of hunted sound

2010-08-30T03:50:00.002-04:00

oaken spinneret

through dark and hollow caverns

wet acorns tumble

mostly invisible from in here

2010-08-01T16:58:00.001-04:00

stone take heat slowly
breathing back blind energy
because breath is there

small sings human color

2010-08-01T13:58:00.000-04:00

little yellow at
the edge of the universe
blink me home again

paper clip snare

2010-06-01T23:49:00.001-04:00

at my disposal
an arsenal of rattles
each quiet when lone

water bodies under currents cold

2010-05-30T18:12:00.005-04:00

drip drops tight on top
water was just rain I thought
until we swam still

to draw breath and use it

2010-05-03T23:44:00.004-04:00

scream out at the black
the light needs help in risin'
so wrap tight your ghost

new wetlands for ages

2010-05-03T23:35:00.000-04:00

over clay-fold fields
red river never knew green
so blue made its bed

no blimp carries from sky

2010-04-14T21:54:00.002-04:00

without ropes cannot
his knots tie function to form
from earth to earth bound

smoke falls up

2010-04-05T18:28:00.001-04:00

dig in, cloud children,
cling to atmospheric dreams
while your bubble heals

eating the sun

2010-03-30T16:40:00.000-04:00

harvest berry pluck
wind belly coat take clover
tumble blissful grass

old cities warm and sky

2010-02-25T11:33:00.000-05:00

snare-wrung fighting doves
floating place, possession of
stone perching faces

some january morning in january

2009-11-30T18:11:00.003-05:00

blue leather boot strap
toe tap mittens out the back
balled snow sneak attack

accordion air

2009-11-12T14:33:00.001-05:00

sharply sighs machine
with memories of dancing
taverns, streets, and halls

nowhere for the price of a smile

2009-11-12T14:26:00.002-05:00

passenger seating
with strangers' conversation
the token express

a shared trajectory makes a rich journey

2009-10-26T02:48:00.001-04:00

three abreast a cart
wheel slow started family
set out in consort

a weathered walker's advice to the ill-fated

2009-10-26T02:46:00.000-04:00

grab hold strongly, son
it's ugly and wants you dead
but you can break it

jerry, the former mc, overcame his susceptibility to infomercials

2009-10-06T19:43:00.002-04:00

shrewdly dubious
to lack-wit testaments, I,
take mine by finding

robot ropes can roll themselves

2009-09-12T18:41:00.007-04:00

sea breeze coiling steel
synchronizing ripple joints,
man-less thinking ships

contour explorers

2009-09-03T15:41:00.001-04:00

copy back my map
of Africa tonight, love
through your lines we'll walk

the writing instrument that remembered

2009-09-02T02:35:00.004-04:00

every doled drop
leaving home this bleeding tool
to record the more

plastic head glass

2009-08-12T18:47:00.002-04:00

cross-limbed toe-tapper
your boundaries vibrating
only inward-like

the weathered hermit felt only what could be seen

2009-08-11T13:30:00.005-04:00

abrasion made him
an elegant callousness
as folds to crumple

three years ago, henry walcrest realized he would never find it standing still

2009-07-25T20:36:00.004-04:00

push back the blanket
gravel-formed aches my morning
moving off putting

who said anything about possible?

2009-07-13T19:27:00.002-04:00

we leap over seas
to watch love build cityscapes
out of dirt and time

fleet blinker

2009-07-07T23:57:00.000-04:00

butterfly at night
caught by the quick and caller
butterfly, ignite

carrousel of givers

2009-06-01T18:38:00.003-04:00

waves and waves they pass
for up a down turned up learned
choir of motion

no time to dally, sally, the bells play on

2009-05-28T14:42:00.006-04:00

universal minds
on a dancing-mad clock hand
like spark puppies play

upbringing of a machine

2009-05-07T23:26:00.003-04:00

red wrath burns quickly
though cold is what one should fear
and not from without

you should have thought about that before you erased the messiah

2009-05-07T15:45:00.002-04:00

at a loss for words
open stained-glass magnetic
cutting briar's path

none can catch the jungle's son

2009-04-29T20:31:00.002-04:00

sweat thump I am drum
race with the tree-swung young one
drum run my earth lung

my tenure as daybreak's shutter operator

2009-04-29T20:19:00.005-04:00

carefully holding
watch wait for bold faces; here
show you tomorrow

sister carried this with her for a lifetime

2009-04-15T16:13:00.004-04:00

sure soft foot movement
clothed in a field of sky folds
and time was a place

the most exciting home decorating adventure she's had yet!

2009-04-06T01:15:00.003-04:00

holy moley mother
have you seen that other and
so clever curtain

it was the only place the great blind giant could not crush, and for such a small reason

2009-04-06T00:52:00.003-04:00

he plunged through the gates
the end of our town, our lives
stopped by a whisper

tuesday teeters over the coattails of staggering tom

2009-04-01T21:56:00.001-04:00

tip top hat to you
do tell me have you the time
today is turvy

a perplexing purpose

2009-04-01T20:18:00.000-04:00

like a bottlecap
clinging tightly to its home
made to bend away

the progeny of a moving conception

2009-03-31T00:14:00.004-04:00

forget those blankets
the air will be your cover,
red-born sleeping one

selling wings for words

2009-03-25T13:24:00.002-04:00

soaring higher still
laid open all to eye, yet
could not share so far

he was determined to bring the brightest light into the darkest room

2009-03-18T23:45:00.002-04:00

hear those thunderous
pitfalls and repetitions
echos precede source

preparing meals by moonlight

2009-02-26T18:10:00.001-05:00

charcoal resting wood
attend and what sharply to
put open after

the rush of love or cunning brew

2009-02-25T14:07:00.004-05:00

finger-folded hands
below face storm-eyed vigor
roll the restless free

daywake worth

2008-12-29T13:58:00.001-05:00

awake song morning
blink blink shine up comfort eyes
forward over through

the restless winter bear

2008-12-29T13:57:00.000-05:00

if hibernation
were not a dream but struggle
it would know my name

as father window raged with grief, the world was bathed in brilliant dust and slivers

2008-11-12T23:45:00.007-05:00

clinging to the glass
string river shimmering wrath
tore magnificence

the sand-handed carpenter

2008-11-01T00:59:00.000-04:00

search the shape of it
rub those rough-grained worries out
hold it to your skin

red dress wearer

2008-10-31T12:58:00.001-04:00

step burgundy step
step walker step moving step
step grin step woman

snowball construction morning

2008-10-31T12:57:00.001-04:00

frosty fistfuls of
softly shimmering petals
numb the pale fingers

wakefan strut

2008-10-27T01:49:00.005-04:00

weight dime rolling plate
tunnel shake fancy glancer
pulse slide wherever

gateway of the keystone titan

2008-10-07T11:30:00.001-04:00

heavy holder, hold
a boulder high above your
head and shoulder sky

skyweight driftboots

2008-10-02T15:58:00.005-04:00

flood pools spilling their
cacophony of reason
lead the stranger's way

the electrical products division

2008-09-27T21:03:00.002-04:00

adhesive wheel roll
really wasn't waiting there
waiting ready for

numbers in the jungle

2008-09-27T20:27:00.002-04:00

apathetic math snipers
pay no mind to pleading words
hunting for mistakes

captain pocketwatch's metaphysical adventure hour

2008-09-25T17:32:00.005-04:00

switch movement chime box
release light fold everplay
fox fur time cape glitch

mosquito everforest floor

2008-09-14T16:09:00.003-04:00

follow pocket hunt
breath and sweat escaping life
hanging linger air

children's children of the desert

2008-09-09T17:58:00.002-04:00

the see-through mountain
nestled near a parchment sun
wishes grandson well

stone drifting shores

2008-08-19T01:37:00.004-04:00

strike the pale blue moon
with that arm of fire white
from the side with light

the sounds spun around him, hanging from his fingers

2008-07-29T00:53:00.002-04:00

tape stop recrop pop
tempo hop and body drop
microphone elbow

object of the limelight thought

2008-07-25T16:05:00.005-04:00

luminary glance
hold fast treasure spoken time
calling shimmer chance

acrobat evening

2008-07-23T00:31:00.003-04:00

dandelion fliers
as singing coins they spin there
mindful to alight

of three to be wary

2008-06-29T16:01:00.002-04:00

the gray woods hunter
the old lake man and his wasp
the black, spine-tailed wolves

empire hill's glass palace

2008-06-21T22:25:00.002-04:00

oblong atrium
life hung from sun-touched trusses
high above warm stone

the featherlight companion

2008-06-19T23:37:00.005-04:00

pearl fell from the sky
an ivory drop of rain
returned gently home

pointless as a scream amongst screamers

2008-06-18T17:24:00.003-04:00

hardly a message
twisting through the spinners' hands
find me out here, speak

rhinocerous flight

2008-06-13T00:07:00.003-04:00

stout horned avion
lumber buzz bolt leather son
cradled by your sky

walls mean nothing to this woman

2008-06-13T00:04:00.002-04:00

honey golden glaze
drips beneath the parapet
coating stone and earth

perspiration glidewire

2008-06-10T00:27:00.002-04:00

tied by hot spring skies
glowbright fish, they slip and move
dance me light wind blow

(inspired by botchs)

the builder's hammer

2008-06-10T00:19:00.002-04:00

labor long blossom
beating relentless down blow
frame bloom tap tack birth

anticipation morning

2008-06-08T00:42:00.002-04:00

sharp sounded hollow
a single marbled footstep
our faceless herald

tiatain

2008-06-05T14:33:00.003-04:00

head placed in a stream
trickle song play by blood flow
calm expanse clear day

skywash

2008-06-02T22:38:00.002-04:00

I looked to the clouds
as a million water drops
chanced to find my face

the inevitability of smoke

2008-06-02T22:02:00.002-04:00

shades of vapor white
cannot help but drift about
into our corners

from windows, from trees

2008-05-23T22:01:00.002-04:00

waiting bird be kind
hold out, wholly form the words,
sing them as she wakes

a simple thing in an unlikely place

2008-05-23T01:03:00.002-04:00

"it's a red ribbon!"
the little girl said with pride
pulling it from stones

a home that could not hold its children

2008-05-23T00:27:00.003-04:00

how can you dwell there,
fire fish, within the brine.
fathoms you have blazed

as if every star in the sky died at once, leaving us a map to the heart of it all

2008-05-20T02:28:00.006-04:00

they vanished they left
in desperation they called
a name, they named it

for a moment, amidst the stars and swell, all seemed lost

2008-05-19T21:55:00.004-04:00

seafaring blindfold
release the blood-eyed walrus
his course leads us home

puppeteer's dream

2008-05-18T15:29:00.003-04:00

armature lifted.
what strings did pull newborn winds.
fingertips. dawn's break...

a universe of bubble people

2008-05-18T01:37:00.002-04:00

gazing out with wonder
life in a pocket of air
one day promise called

box of treasures

2008-05-17T23:39:00.002-04:00

despite resistance
the litany had its return
and that place was lost

becoming instrument

2008-05-14T15:17:00.000-04:00

farmer yard sunburn
tear the red earth and relish
hands heavy as stone

good intentions by surprize

2008-05-10T20:18:00.000-04:00

flipping threes for free
pith against the industry
run down that old bone

happy punch

2008-05-03T18:06:00.001-04:00

flock to the last light
should that face appear again
bludgeon it with love

Fingers and Toes

2008-04-29T23:50:00.000-04:00

curtail your coattails
pomptastic bombast chorus
all the anchors in

I heard an animal howl at night and wrote about something else

2008-04-26T04:09:00.000-04:00

bubble plum plip drop
sunlight flora face forgot
welcome oh we know

Ode to My Scarf

2008-02-18T00:32:00.000-05:00

my neck is so warm
my neck also looks so good
you rock, little scarf!

nigh time

2008-01-14T08:48:00.000-05:00

reeling from the push
still more stones yet walled ahead
obtaining an end

Storm

2007-12-14T12:30:00.000-05:00

traveling on sludge
night stranded impatiently
relax, kids, it's snow

Tasty For My Ears

2007-12-08T14:25:00.001-05:00

the sun, moon, and stars
over midlake bird and bee
senseless punks bring grooves