Bird As Fish

A little while ago while at work, I decided that I had not written any haiku for about a year now, and that I want to give it another try. I enjoy writing them because they capture a brief moment in time, and all you have to do is try to write out exactly what you are seeing in your head without all of the extras. Disclaimer: These haiku are not traditional haiku, however, I believe they capture the essence of haiku, which is the important thing.

Payment
Two coins sit on a table
Reflecting overhead lights.
Transiency.

The Computer
The cyclops
He speaks and thinks
And does not know he exists.

The following haiku was difficult to write, because it was hard to get out exactly what I was seeing in my minds eye and it actually started out as a rhyming poem. Here are the stages it went through:

She crouches low beside the waves
As darkness covers up her face
She shifts as up against the rocks
The wind it screams and cries and mocks.

Dark wind blows across stars
Lighthouse turns endlessly
Pale child hides on rocks.

Dark wind blows across lighthouse,
Turning not on pale child
Lying nearby.

Lying just beyond the reach
Of lighthouse rays.
Pale child on dark rocks.

Pale child on dark rocks
Just beyond lighthouse rays
Alone.

The pale child on dark rocks
Just beyond the reach of the lighthouse rays
Is alone.

The pale child on dark rocks
Just beyond the lighthouse rays
Is alone.

The above is my final copy of a long process of putting down exactly what I wanted, and "x"ing all the rest. Interesting process, but of course, only interesting to myself, and I don't expect that anyone else will find this of any interest, but just here in little notes to myself, when I look back, will I find interest.

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