Ph: Haiku: Iku (#62-#67) Poem by Brian Johnston

#62
bright hovering birds
sip from honeysuckle cups -
a tea monger's cart

#63
bees gather pollen
their legs and wings a blur -
golden alchemy

#64
frost punks spring's success
winter knife's the heart of fall -
summer love can't last

#65
man cuts word in half
and smiles - haiku 'less is more'
puzzle this 'sippi'

#66
pictures overwhelm -
give others a blank page
they will vote for you

#67
fishing bob jiggles
hook plumbing the depths with bait -
look! spring's in her step


Brian Johnston
March 8,2017

Poet's Notes:
Question: Does 'golden alchemy' bring a picture to your mind? OK, I'll admit that you might have to think a little! : -) How is that picture different from 'a tea monger's cart? ' Is it even possible for one image to be more real than another? Isn't everything (you think you see) just a 'model of reality' constructed by your brain from sensory input? Let's raise our glass to 'models! ' Some of them are so sexy and cute even! Ha! ?

Concrete images (that are never concrete) can be so boring and are rarely more than a spark, mostly monkeys with typewriters or emperor's 'new clothes! ' Words may seem beautiful to you, but if they do not come from the author's original intention to communicate a specific idea or feeling, they are garbage I think, just monkeys typing and 'Fake News! '