dagosan's haiku diary

Monday, May 19, 2008

IV: 021

the old man's bladder
interrupts
a young man's dream

too much tongue
the taste
of the popsicle stick

Thursday, May 15, 2008

IV: 020

mid-May
sweating over our last
baked apple

Saturday, May 10, 2008

IV: 019

-- two years ago, I wrote and posted this haiku:

lilacs
next to trashcans --
the scent of each

-- today, the seasons repeated, and I took a photo
of the scene that inspired the poem:

update (May 19, 2008): Urged by my brother Arthur, the real photographer in the family, I came up with a less graphic/grating view of the trashcans, for the squeamish.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

IV: 018

windy day
more blossoms in the air
than on the tree

a week's worth
of cherry blossoms -
pink puddles everywhere

- see Schenectady's Washington Ave. Cherry Blossoms at f/k/a-

Thursday, April 17, 2008

IV: 017

first park-bench day
pretty girls distract
the mystery reader

Friday, April 11, 2008

IV: 016

tied in the ninth
pitcher and batter
cross themselves

ground rule double
a graveside angel
makes the stop

Thursday, March 20, 2008

IV: 015

late-March snow
power lines fallen
in an untouched field

startled rabbit --
easter snow slips
from the telephone wire

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

IV: 014

chocolate bunnies –
the hollow ones
eaten last

[larger]

Spring arrives –
peeps melting
on the dashboard

- poem orig. pub. at Simply Haiku (Vol. 3, No. 4, Winter 2005); haiga photo-poem at MagnaPoets Japanese Form; 1953 photo by Mama G.

Saturday, March 01, 2008

IV: 013 (Leap Day Schmeap Day)

As featured yesterday at f/k/a (with special poems by famed female haijin), February 29 was Leap Day -- when unmarried ladies get to propose to single men. Inexplicably, dagosan's email and phone lines were no busier than usual.

running right
past me
ms. sadie hawkins

one gray moth
above the candle -
Leap Day ends

nearly March 1st froglegs

the Leap Day Bachelor
re-checks his email

Friday, February 22, 2008

IV: 012

ice storm blackout --
three starter snowmen
melt in the fridge

Monday, February 18, 2008

IV: 011

icy alley
on my knees mouthing
the Lord's name

Friday, February 15, 2008

IV: 010

Feb. 15
he buys himself
a half-priced heart

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

IV: 009

valentine's day
my blind date
leaves in a huff

- click this page for Valentine misgivings, and/or click for a larger version of this haiga (photo by Mama G, 1951) -

Monday, February 04, 2008

IV: 008

broken heart carved
on a frozen pond
no fish biting today