Look at its eyes! Their
sparkle! Its luscious lips! Its
cheeks! Their modest blush!
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2021)
Note
Nothing to be added. Could have made it even prettier if I hadn’t limited myself to haiku size.
This world is so wide that, even if you flitted around and around it, you would never reach the end of it. This blog is a collage of more or less literary and humorous, outlandish or sometimes even serious glimpses at this great wide world.
Look at its eyes! Their
sparkle! Its luscious lips! Its
cheeks! Their modest blush!
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2021)
Note
Nothing to be added. Could have made it even prettier if I hadn’t limited myself to haiku size.
Rain. Regen. बारिश.
Pioggia. All day long il
pleut. ¡Para, lluvia!
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2021)
Note
Let’s hope this multilingual admonishment will help to put an end to the endless rain.
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2021)
Note
That is the poetic razor-edge-of-time report on the weather in Rome on this 3rd day of 2021.
Writing half-withered
letters to Sea, the under-
standing blue houseplant
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2020)
Note:
Inspired by a haiku by N. Gutierrez, turned inside out and deformed in other ways.
Photo by Antonio Grosz on Unsplash
He had Brahms and Bruno
Walter – both long dead – engaged in
lively conversation.
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2020)
Note
All true! See James Schuyler’s poem A Man in Blue from Freely Espousing (1969).
Bruno Walter, conductor and pianist (1876-1962)
Johannes Brahms, composer, pianist, conductor (1833-1897)
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2020)
Note
The truth and nothing but. The seemingly endless scorchers of summer 2020 have come to a dark and wet end for the time being.
Put the cookie in
your mouth, sip coffee, wait
until soggy, down.
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2020)
Note
There are people with dunking problems, e.g. if the cookie disintegrates when dunked in the coffee (or tea or milk or whatever). Follow the above haiku to avoid this. Try it!
PS: I was going to write “down the hatch” instead of “down”, but that would have violated haiku rules.
Oh no! What now? So
we’re fucked? Can’t be all true, no
way, Ho Say! Right-ho.
– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2020)
Note
I seem to remember having written and posted a monosyllabic haiku (don’t remember it or what it might have been about – but I have a chronically bad memory for things I’ve written, so nothing new there).
Well, here comes another one. It cheats a little bit, because José actually has two syllables. However, I don’t think this will upset anyone excessively.
Anyway, the general bias goes well with this year, which might go down in history as a year that was effed up in many ways.
PS: Did research and found the other one.