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Masculinity Haiku: Lucha Libre Head
Stacy Vandenput’s haiku captures the drop kick and the kiss. Editor’s Note: This poem takes the reader behind the mask, behind the persona, behind the man. In the muscle and madness there is,...
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Masculinity Haiku: A Lone Wolf
Greg P. Santos’ haiku shows that even a wolf in hiding will eventually be vulnerable. Editor’s Note: Through an unexpected backdrop within the natural world, this haiku gets at something about...
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Masculinity Haiku: Real Man
Michael Pietrobon’s haiku juxtaposes the perception of man with the complex reality. Editor’s Note: This poem begins with the generality voice we all hear throughout our lives. Then it swiftly...
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Masculinity Haiku: Dad Was Lost at Five
Kile Ozier’s haiku addresses the search through memory for identity. Editor’s Note: This poem somehow contains within itself an entire childhood. We have a young son at 5-years-old, a missing father...
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Masculinity Haiku: I Thought You Were Brave
Cindy Burrill’s haiku on the parts of ourselves that being tough can hide. Editor’s Note: This poem had me thinking about the term “authentic masculinity.” Men can often feel the need to put on a...
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Life Is the Fire That Burns [Lyrical PhotoEssay of an Australian Bushfire]
David Packman adds words to Kirra Pendergast’s amazing photos of how a lightning strike forced an evacuation from the flames. — On the evening of Sunday, December 29, David Packman was sitting on the...
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Beating The Commuting Blues: Better Laugh Or You’re Gonna Cry
Tough Commute? Mike Kasdan feels your pain. He prescribes a large dose of humor. Here’s your starter tool-kit. — The daily grind of commuting: a cruel fact of suburban life. Sure, we moved out to the...
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Poetry in Exile
Nature inspires us all. Even in the cold confines of Prison. ___ I couldn’t get back to sleep this morning after our 5 AM feeding (you would call it breakfast in your world!) so I watched as the sun...
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On the Impending Commencement
The idea, as I sat in the sun, was that when we attempt to bucket the world into inherent qualities we limit ourselves immensely. — Part One. The moment we define good, we define bad – that is, where...
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These Haiku About Grindr Hookups Will Make you Laugh… and Make you Think
Embed from Getty Images — By Graham Gremore Need a distraction from the doom and gloom of our current political landscape? We’ve got just the thing. @grindrhaiku is a new Instagram account dedicated...
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What is Said
What is Said My hands, two balls of hair trapped in the throat of a feline ghost. My fingers, covered by your two-week beard. I want to be a Polaroid snapshot of a sunset. I’ll call it: selfie # 569...
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Mars Deserves Better
It was a leap to the heavens, followed by the inevitable, fatal crash back to reality. There was a Tweet, a chance at immortality in 140 characters or less, it had been re-tweeted by someone, so there...
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On the Outside, Looking In – Part I
Being a writer is something that I have dreamt of being for almost three decades, now. Despite the unfocused aspirations and unexplored identity of my youth, I knew I had to express my thoughts and...
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On the Outside, Looking In – Part II
If you haven’t had a chance to read “On the Outside, Looking In – Part I,” you can do so by clicking here! The notifications were all polite enough. They thanked me for my work and insisted their...
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Home Haiku
Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry traditionally consisting of three lines (as in the title reconfigured below.) Usually it has five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the...
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As We Go
— We are not the authors of our lives. All we can do is take notes As we die and resurrect as we go. — What’s Next? Talk with others. Take action. We are proud of our SOCIAL INTEREST GROUPS—WEEKLY...
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The Really Annoying Thing About Jesus
— Every time you draw a line between you and them he is on their side — What’s Next? Talk with others. Take action. We are proud of our SOCIAL INTEREST GROUPS—WEEKLY PHONE CALLS to discuss, gain...
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We Just Were
— When we were kids, we kinda just were more often than kids are now. Not so much scheduling and pressure to get places. Lives of kids today are so planned- so regimented. So much pressure placed on...
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Accidentally Dating Haiku
— Met her as a friend Over time the friendship grew Now it’s something more — What’s Next? Talk with others. Take action. We are proud of our SOCIAL INTEREST GROUPS—WEEKLY PHONE CALLS to discuss, gain...
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Coffee Haiku
— Drink coffee alone without your morning partner where’s that coffee kiss? — What’s Next? Talk with others. Take action. We are proud of our SOCIAL INTEREST GROUPS—WEEKLY PHONE CALLS to discuss, gain...
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