Don’t Deny Her: Romantic ImproVerse Haiku

When you doubt yourself,/
you think you’re not loveable./
What if she doesn’t?

Why Argue With God? ImproVerse Haiku

Why do I argue/
with God? I should trust Him. He’s/
always got my back.

Isn’t The Answer Obvious? Revolutionary ImproVerse Haiku

Why is Hillary/
irrelevant in U.S.
politics? She lost.

Joyful Jalapeno Burn: Haiku

What exquisite joys/
summer brings: Fresh tomatoes,/
jalapeno burn!

Warm Georgia Summer Evening Surprise: Improverse Blogging Haibu

From the inside, through my 90’s shaded-design oval door window, it looked like recent Georgia sunsets: Cool, golden, breezy, comfortably worthy of a front-porch sit for a spell. I knew the frogs would be chirping and croaking and screeching melodically, there might be a whip-or-will or mocking bird or mourning dove singing joyfully at the setting sun, and various and sundry unidentified bugs would be rhytmically scraping and creeking and thrumming and whatever they do, lacing a deep-layered cacophony of sound like a grandmother’s old, well-worn quilt over the newly-mown hay and lawn and the soon-to-be-harvested gold-and-black-tassled corn in the field just beyond the broken-in-half hickory tree.

Surprise.

Stepping out onto the porch, the evening’s still, stiffling air laid on my face and arms like mold in a plastic bag full of what teenaged boys might call “garbage cheese” — not quite rotted into limberger, but still stenchy and pungent enough to make me want to avoid taking a deep, rich breath.

No breeze.

Instead, as I stood still and watched the sunset dapple through the aged oak and hickory trees, as I tried to revel in the natural symphony I’d expected, the damp-dank humid humors of the evening felt as if I was at the end of some God/Satan spraygun of tangible air-mist-grime-pollen. And no scents. Nothing to make breathing the languid vapors worthwhile. No sense of reward or joy or revelation. Just deep cotton-like vapors filling my nostrils and throat and lining my lungs.

I sat down anyway, rocked slowly the way one should on a Southern porch in late July, and waited for an evening breeze to come and wash away the fog-like depth of the moment so I could, at last, completely see-hear-taste-smell-feel-sense all-in-all around and through and in me.

And a distant owl hooted.

When unexpected/
nature clouds your mind, be still./
She’ll clear your senses.

What To Do When You’re Done Doing? – ImproVerse Haiku Lament

What should I do when/
there’s no more to do and no/
way to do something?

On Being “Woke” – ImproVerse Political Rhyming Haiku

If you have to say,/
In a self-right way, you’re “woke”,/
Then you’re still dreaming.

What Should I? Revolutionary Blogging Poetry

So much to see.
So much to do.
So much to live.
So much to…
So what should I?

Revealing Your Past Carefully: Revolutionary IMprov Haiku

Many folks from your/
now and future won’t know your past/
save you reveal some.

This came off of a meme which said:
“So many people from your past know a version of you that doesn’t exist anymore.”

As She Creates Music Theraputic: Revolutionary ImproVerse Rhyming Haiku

The music which flows/
from her soul knows* what her mind/
can’t articulate.

OR
*shows