Sunday, July 01, 2012

#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