look hard at those lawn signs in the background…
Category Archives: Politics
Pre-election conflict in New Hampshire
The 2012 Presidential Haiku/Senryu Commentary Starts Now
My dogs will vote Dem
Pity Seamus’ awful ride
Mitt’s one cold cad.
You are invited to contribute three line haiku, senryu or whatever and I might put them in this spot. Of course, I reserve all …
America Revived and a fringe benefit…
Leaving the Lower 48
Plane banks into fleecy
clouds, Valentinos left behind,
Sarah sighs slightly.…
Geof Hewitt weighs in on the Presidential Race…
There once was a plumber named Joe
Who could replumb your house head to toe
No toilet too jammed
With yesterday’s yams
He grew flush and his business did grow.
Then came a new taxation …
Entering the United States
Putin rears his head
comes into air space of America…
where — where do they go?
Sarah Palin
(almost verbatim)
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Debate Preparation
Outside Wausilla
a moose tests the morning ice,
looking for lake weeds.
[These haikus are addictive but I promise more
“real poems” soon]…
Leaving Mississippi, Another Update from the Trail
Straight talk from Oxford:
no matter what you feed them,
some dogs won’t hunt.
[Note: I’ll leave it to readers to decide if these are haiku, senryu or if it doesn’t matter. Any thoughts?]…
Update From the Trail
Markets dive, northern
salmon reeks on the shelf and
Republic survives?
…
Political commentary in haiku
Having spent most of my life actively involved in campaigns and on public policy issues, I can’t resist any longer bringing it here, although my comments will be in haiku and I invite others to send me theirs in that …