#redleafhaiku
What have we misread
of our dream that this nightmare
is here to convey?
Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
Some forty hundred
years since Earth’s first king, and we've
still not learned a thing.
Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
No, son, there’s not a
single evil on which the
whole world can agree.
Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
No combination
of words, least of all these, could
capture this horror.
Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
Smoky dragon, you’re
nothing but nose and tail, yet
all things in between.
Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
Pebble, ocean, air,
thoughtful, aware. Starry sky
above looking down.
Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
It is only the
looking itself that creates
the seen universe.
Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
Promising young man,
what colors shall your hair be
once all’s said and done?
Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
We pass through paper,
barely making fruit. Oak was
always out of reach.
Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
A timeless freedom
lies in knowing you’ll never
get what you’ve wanted.
Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
Listen as hard as
you can. To not the words, but
the spaces between.
Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
There is no shame in
sometimes halfway rooting for
the apocalypse.
Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
How tedious it
gets always fretting over
every single word.
Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
Red monkey, no one
should care how imperfect your
perforations are.
Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
Airport at sunset
in Japan. Not sure when my
flight takes off or lands.
Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
Love is undefined
as the wind, and the only
fire that starts within.
Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
Regret and hope are
the same mask worn at parties
that no one attends.
Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
Why should a leaf mind
which branch it’s on, as long as
light flows from the tree?
Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
Even a coin is
worth only what you and I
can agree it’s worth.
Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
If you’d won all the
hands you lost, would you have lost
all the hands you won?
Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
