Haiku Train

[PhilipCFJohnson]

On a haiku train
Never in its mother tongue
What is to become?

[Aliceaforethought]

what is to become
of our old apple tree?
sweet-scented smoke

[PhilipCFJohnson]

Sweet scented smoke;
Frankincense. Are you wearing
Ashes on your face?

[Aliceaforethought]

ashes on your face
and in your hair—
crying drunk again

[PhilipCFJohnson]

Crying "drunk" again
Hurling his suitcase at him
While the neighbors watch

[nar]

While the neighbors watch
their childhood schemes from behind
slightly parted blinds.

[Aliceaforethought]

slightly parted blinds
and a bright red light—
love you long time

[PhilipCFJohnson]

I Love you, long time
Gambler, inhaler of haze
And jazz musician

[oranggunung]

And jazz, musician
or no, is Satan’s tempo;
it makes your hips sway.

[Lovely]

If we can have fat bankers on rich pensions why can't we have poets on slim ones.

To be fair.

[PhilipCFJohnson]

Lovely, I think you've missed the idea of the haiku train. Perhaps you meant to post in the bits train.

Lovely, you did it again. I think you want the bits train, this is the Haiku train.

Anyways I'll press on:

It makes your hips sway
Jingle-jangling with your
Tambourine shaking

[Aliceaforethought]

tambourine-shaking
you rattled all the way home—
only the night heard

[nar]

Tambourine shaking
evangelists spread The Word
to uninformed ears.

[PhilipCFJohnson]

You both posted at the same time ...oaky don't worry I'll fix it!

Only the night heard
You leaving with shouts and
A slap in the face

or

To informed ears
Saying "no" is as good as
A slap in the face

[Aliceaforethought]

a slap in the face
is the night's lesson—
his head rewinds

[Travis]

His old head rewinds
while his body moves forward
in time. That's life, Jack.

[PhilipCFJohnson]

In time that's life. Jack
Shit, I know, for I am life's
Negotiator.

[Aliceaforethought]

negotiator
talk to someone else—
I'm jumping

[TDF]

I'm jumping
right past two syllables now,
where did they get to?

[Aliceaforethought]

where did they get to?
I guess they're in the wardrobe
with the spare morae

[PhilipCFJohnson]

With the spare morae
That I will use to decide
What on Earth to do.

[Aliceaforethought]

what on earth to do?
orbit the damn sun
like the rest of us...

[nar]

Like the rest of us,
but thinner in the middle--
two sevenths thinner.

[PhilipCFJohnson]

Two sevenths thinner.
A biker finding first aid
Tents, who then revs in.

[Travis]

Two sevenths thinner
I left her after dinner.
To the bed, I said.