Some Penny Haiku, Outside the Stall...

[Steve Plonk]

"Andante Penny Haiku"

If I could recapture
That simple rapture
Of my first communion
When my mind was
Captured by doves cooing
Above the rafters,
Fifty years ago
In St. Alban's Church,
Then I could rest
My ribboned soul...

[Steve Plonk]

"More Autumn Penny Haiku"
(1)
Sun strobes glistening
Through trees as we
Drive home--
Back & forth through
Leaves light shone...

(2)
Leaves come fluttering
Down in the breeze,
Gently making swooshing sounds,
Before they touch earth...
Near our driveway...

(3)
As we arrived in driveway,
We park the car,
Opened the doors--
Our Maine Coon cat
Greeted us by coming
Up & rolling in leaves,
Gently mewing & looking up...

[Steve Plonk]

"Caw-Caw" Penny Haiku

I don't know why
Things go awry
When we mind
Our own beeswax & all--
But pesky crows keep coming
Around our parked car,
Leaving their "cawing" cards...
Eating most suet in front & side yards...

[Steve Plonk]

"Hurray Obama Penny Haiku"

Who's the nice man,
All black & tanned?
He's the President
Of this Land...
Sound off,
Bring it on down:
One, two, three, four,
One-two, three-four!

[Steve Plonk]

MORE AUTUMN CATS PENNY HAIKU
By Steve Plonk

1) Orange tabby’s under chair
Hear plaintive meow
Wants to get her
Dinnertime now.

2) Cat’s under chair
Making coughing sounds
Needs hairball remedy
To scarf it down.

3) Rubbing heads,
Cats purr
While grooming
Each other’s fur.

4) We were smitten
By a Maine coon kitten
With a long gangly tail.



5) Now many years
Have passed—
Fifteen years he
Traced in this place,
Now some grizzle on his face...

6) Maine coon cat
Slides down poplar tree
Like a fireman down
A fire station pole.

7) Maine coon cat
Looks to the right & left,
Licks his front paws,
Curls up & takes
A nap at foot of tree.

(8) British shorthair
Tabby mix swipes
At mouse-on-sticks
Lets out: “Ow, ow, ow!”


9) Once, Tennessee tuxedo
Cat chases rubber ball
Up & down the hall,
Bouncing it on the wall.

10) Then the ball rolls
Down the stairs—
Cat scats after it...
Through the partition,
Cat is in great condition.

11) Orange tabby is pudgy & flabby,
But still chases after lightning bugs
Making flashing traces.

12) Basement crickets
Don’t stand a chance
When tuxedo cat
Does his dinner dance.



13) Next door we hear dachshund
Bark at Maine coon,
As cat swipes at dog
Through the fence...

14) Dog jumps up & down,
As Maine coon cat
Spins around,
Playing games through fence.

15) Cat gets up on the woodpile &
Goes over the corner
Of the fence, chasing a
Squirrel up poplar tree,
Squirrel says “Whee, whee, whee!”

16) All three cats
Pose for a photo
On living room couch—
Orange tabby puffs up
When she sees tuxedo cat—
Maine coon is non-chalant &
Preens his muzzle...

17) Later on, in his special place,
On our screened back porch,
Sitting proudly, Maine coon
Cat watches the sunset
Avidly purring loudly...

18) Our alpha-male Maine
Coon cat is our occasional
Outside cat--British shorthair
Orange tabby is our
Inside lady duchess...
Tuxedo cat is our undercroft
Dweller--he’s our younger feller.

[Steve Plonk]

SAVOY DOO DAH PENNY HAIKU
By Steve Plonk

(1)
Savoy Savoy
where i visited
when a boy--
the starlight
is bright
beneath Mt. Blanc
in Savoy tonight/

(2)
Folksingers sing
in the streets &
Gypsy caravans
travel to where
they want to go
in old Savoy/

(3)
The moon of the Gitan
is full above the gitaru melody
"At the Blacksmiths"
Which plays tonight &
We make out as
We return to Savoy
on the train/

Circa 1977, Revised Nov. 2010

[stilltrucking]

thank you Steve and please keep them coming

[happytrails]

I like it. I'm just wondering is there a rule for penny haiku? or is it take it as it comes?

[jim turner]

Hey, Steve, call them whatever you like, they're yours. But I suggest "funku" because most of them are fun to read. jim

[Steve Plonk]

Thanks for the postcards from the net. Glad you liked my Penny Haiku.
Here are some more below

BORNE ACROSS THE WATERS PENNY HAIKU
By Steve Plonk

(1)
Yes, i was borne across the waters
On a ship--
Harbors of my toddlehood
Are dimmer to me now...

(2)
i was brought across
th ocean on a ship from Nippon,
th harbors are rough in
early childhood..
Not knowing
Where you lay anchor, near Sydney/

(3)
Yes, i remember Honolulu, as
i was sailing across th pacific
Tropical Ocean on a ship--
The harbors are blue-green &
So am i in my primaries much later...
But i sail on to my warmwater harbor
In Leghorn, Italy...

(4)
Yes, It's true i came across the sea,
The muddy river's near
The Bay are where
My towboat chugs/
It's pushing barges
To the the wheel of rivers
The heartland of our nation.

(5)
Like our nation,
i look toward mellow older years
Borne across the waters near
Staten Island,
Waters of the ages roll on...
As J. Lennon & i chew the fat
Over bag lunch sandwiches...

Circa Sept. 1979, Revised Nov. 2010.

[Steve Plonk]

CHILEAN MINERS RESCUE PENNY HAIKU

By Steve Plonk

(1)
The cinch pulled
The elevator capsule up
From the mines
To rescue Chilean miners
Rescued 33 from
A black abyss...

(2)
Rescued miners
Had to wear
Shades because the
World outside the
Collapsed mine was
Too bright to see...

(3)
Copiapo, Chile—
For around 72 days,
33 Chilean miners
Were trapped &
Had to have
Oxygen & water
Piped down to them
Through tubes...

(4)
Then, rescuers, with
American & international
Help, bored a rescue shaft
More than 2000 feet
To the collapsed mine—
NASA helped with
Survival tactics....
Not one life was lost!

(5)
Sleep pattern exercises
Were also suggested
By NASA...
To help the miners
Adapt biological clocks
To absence of light,
Before rescue...
All celebrated when
The miners returned!

(6)
As for me,
The longest tunnel
I’ve ever been in,
I think, was either
The tunnel near
Mt. Blanc, France, or
The Chesapeake Bay-
Bridge Tunnel in
Virginia, USA—
***
So, except for being
In Mammoth Cave,
Or Carlsbad Caverns,
I have no idea how
Dark the mine was—
Hooray for the miners!.

[jim turner]

Now this is all fun to start an infidel's drizzly Sunday morning. Call 'em whatever you like if you coined them. Much ado about pennies, I say. But I'm a patsy for them:

PENNIES FOUND IN PARKING LOTS

How that drop from the sun,
golden, catches my eyes!
I can’t resist. I’ll stoop
to pick it up and whoop
to myself with surprise.
I save them, one by one.
Uncommon coins, I say,
and bright spots in my day!

Jim

[Steve Plonk]

Jim, glad to inspire the whimsy in you. "Penny Haiku" spirit lives on!

[Steve Plonk]

"Kyoto Penny Haiku"

By Steve Plonk

It all started with morning sunrise
In my eyes in my baby carriage,&
With the sound of a gong--
It was Kyoto and I was aware
For the very first time,
To the sights & sounds around me...

[Steve Plonk]

"Restaurant Penny Haiku"
By Steve Plonk

(1)
While at "The North Chatt Cat"
(Bar & grill)
I nursed a cup of java
After eating my fill...

(2)
While at
"Aretha Frankenstein's" Pub,
I nursed an icewater &
Twist of lemon,
After eating my grub...