#Mount
Mount Kilimanjaro---
I'd like to climb it
someday
#blue
blue sky---
July the month of revolutions
starts
#Tour
Tour de France starts---
wait till they get
to the Alps
#heat
heat wave---
a kids lemonade stand
does good business
#starts
kids do the flip---
a lifeguard whistles
Summer vacation starts
#wave
a heat wave---
I'd choose that any day
over a blizzard
#white
a fifties yearbook---
among all these white faces
a black one
#glances
Summer sultriness---
it induces torrid
glances
#balls
Wimbledon---
where tennis balls
bounce higher
#writer
deadline nears---
a sit com writer
is having a mental block
#blue
June blue sky---
a kid counts his
baseball cards
#strings
Angela Merkel---
she knows how to pull their strings
each one of them
#ring
as I pay---
the waitress is not wearing
her engagement ring today
#blue
June blue sky---
I ask for a taste of
pistachio ice-cream
#line
the Supreme Court---
you won't go to jail
if you cross the border line
#blue
a Summer bright day---
Ol' Blue Eyes
sings
#sunset
I raise my Venetian blinds
at sunset ---ditto
the horizon clouds
#home
Gandhi's Satyagraha---
finally got the British
to go home
#morning
Monday morning---
starting the week
with thunder and lightening
#where
Summer wedding
the groom and the best man---
but where's the bride
#blue
June blue sky---
sparrows pick the crumbs
as I eat a bun
#swarm
as if we need more scares---
an early Spring
causes honeybees to swarm
#home
Gandhi's Satyagraha---
finally got the British
to go home
#morning
Monday morning---
starting the week
with thunder and lightening
#where
Summer wedding
the groom and the best man---
but where's the bride
#blue
June blue sky---
sparrows pick the crumbs
as I eat a bun
#swarm
as if we need more scares---
an early Spring
causes honeybees to swarm
#moon
crescent moon above
the skyline at sunset---
a doubleheader
#sun
the sun dilemma---
in Winter it's dim but
in Summer it's hot
#dry
hot Saturday blue sky---
I order my martini
extra dry
#alone
Summer---
men shopping alone
at Victoria's Secret
#sunrise
fog over Manhattan---
but here a rosy
sunrise
#Zeus
Zeus---
the god of thunder and lightening
finally slew the heat wave
#inspiration
for inspiration---
I look out
of my window
#third
third day of a heat wave---
kids open
fire hydrants
#wave
the heat wave---
"water, water everywhere
but not a drop to drink"
#scent
a Beagle in pursuit of a scent---
goes in
circles
#second
second day of a June heat wave-
more of
the same
#Summer
New York City
First Day of Summer---
it's a scorcher
#light
as I write this haiku---
it will travel to you
at the speed of light
#haze
skyline morning haze---
I check the air quality
index
#vacation
Roger Federer---
stop every thing and
take a vacation
#night
moonless night---
a streetwalker
propositions me
#knows
overcast morning---
"only a weatherman knows
which way the wind blows"
#River
East River Summer---
dog barks at a swan
swan flies away
#Letter
for Summer reading---
may I suggest
The Scarlet Letter
#Monday
June Monday morning---
women wear colorful dresses
to work
#golf
playing golf---
it's chess
#Day
Father's Day---
if anyone thinks I am their dad
please don't send anything
#Sunday
Sunday morning---
overcast skies and
the New York Times
#moon
Saturday night moon---
it's there but
covered by what ever
#hand
Arabian desert Summer day-
two Bedouins walk
hand in hand
#Day S
Father's Day---
if anyone thinks I am their dad
please don't send anything
#blue
mid June blue sky---
a man teaches his son
how to fly a kite
#rope
without harness---
a rope walker goes
across Niagara Falls
#nears
Summer nears---
a bodybuilder looks
at himself in the mirror
#blue
June blue sky---
a man waiting for a bus
keeps looking up
#salsa
dancing salsa at
a dance school---
I like her
#random generator
chance of any one prompt---
is reciprocal of
number of prompts
#blue
blue sky---
June changes
its tune
#sunset
Summer sunset---
black roses are
on sale
#thirteenth
it's Wednesday the Thirteenth
not Friday---what scares you
can't be that scary
#clouds
skyline low clouds---
they pay five grand a month
to see nothing
#fog
afternoon fog---
colorful umbrellas push
each other to go home
#rain
"rain rain go away---
come again
another day"
#cotton
June morning---
dirty cotton balls stuffed
into the sky
#stone
"how does it feel
to be all alone
with no direction known
like a rolling stone"
Bob Dylan
#sunset
sunset---
I retrieve
a shiny penny
#subway
crowded subway---
a woman wearing a tight dress
stands behind me
#game
Summer---
a chess game in the park
drags on
#man
I don't need to prove anything-
I am
an older man
#fly
Sunday morning---
a fly comes in
then turns around and leaves
#play
Saturday night---
the Mets play the Yankees
New York,New York
#win
Union Rags---
comes from behind
to win the Preakness
#space
as you read this---
the space between you and me
becomes less
#jazz
overcast June morning---
a jazz band plays
in the subway
#hungry
"as grain piles up---
India's poor
still go hungry"
headline in today's New York Times
#octopus
sea food restaurant---
I have grilled
octopus
#blue
June blue sky---
the winner of a tennis match
weeps
#kiss
French Open mixed doubles---
opponents kiss
after the match
#tree
nice Spring day---
a Lebanese soldier salutes
a cedar tree
#wire
nice Spring day---
a high wire walker enjoys
the scenery
#sign
a road sign inside
a cemetery says---
dead end
#blue
June blue sky---
a beachcomber finds
nothing
#diamond
Elizabeth's diamond jubilee---
what would the great bard
had said
#Transit
June Fifth blue sky---
New Yorkers keep looking up
Venus Transit
#Venus
a black dot
moves across the sun-
Venus Transit
#sun
the sun the size of a dime
behind cloud cover---
a cheap date
#Faster Horses
"it's faster horses---
younger women, older whiskey,
and more money"
Tom T. Hall
#wind
June wind---
a falling piece of paper
whirls like a butterfly
#sunset
Sunday sunset---
it does not matter
who won or lost but the passion
#fuse
can't tell the positive
from the negative---
a man burns a fuse
#blue
Sunday morning blue sky---
a man gets money
from an ATM
#hike
a June hike---
it's warm enough
to take off your shirt
#wrong
buy her red roses---
the best fixer of
whatever goes wrong
#fog
June morning fog---
I order my eggs
sunny side up
