English Haiku

Each poem has 17 syllables, five in the first and third lines and seven in the second line. It doesn't follow traditional Japanese poetry, really. It's just a word game. And when you are really really bored sitting in a meeting listening to information that's already been presented three times, you start to play word games to get through it. Not that I would ever scribble bad haiku in the margins of my notes at a meeting...

COUNCIL CHAMBERS

I'm writing haiku
to keep from falling asleep
meeting never ends.

FORMAL

A mud puddle splash
Black slash on the white jacket
Washed away by rain.

ARGUMENT

The horse is deceased
beating won't drive it farther
Summer waits outside.

ACCIDENT

Relief! My car stopped.
Dread sound of screaming brakes... Thump!
Coins burst to car floor.

PRESENTATION

Ceaseless droning talk
decisions made and unmade
time breaks and oozes.

BRUSH FIRE

Smoke looms over town
a curtain driven by flame
The foothills burn.

TWO HOURS IN

The bored computer
drops to black screen, ignoring
hollow empty words.

COUNCIL CHAMBERS REDUX

Another haiku
falls useless out of my pen
the sun has gone down.