Showing posts with label surrealist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label surrealist. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

The surreal surprise haiku

Black, black cherries. And
suddenly an eruption
of earwigs, earwigs.


– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2017)

Note
Did not happen quite that way. But I started eating a nectarine when a big earwig fell out of the pit, which had partially split the way it sometimes happens with nectarines. That was surreal enough, actually. But then I thought of a pile of black cherries and discovering, when taking a closer look, that there were masses of earwigs underneath a thin layer of cherries...

Saturday, February 13, 2016

The surreally sentenced haiku

Thirty days of hot 
landswart for the misdeamer, 
said the judge. Gavel!

– Leonard Blumfeld (© 2016)

Note
Another one that came to me while I was half asleep and getting ready to wake up.