Gatsby Haiku Review

#Baz #Luhrmann’s #Gatsby/
Was surprisingly pleasant/
A pretty good #flick/
#haiku

Production design/
& DeCaprio’s #Gatsby/
Were well worth watching/
#haiku

Fantastic Costumes/
& faux aged New York City/
Were interesting/
#haiku #gatsby

Clever impression/
If not true fidelity/
In this new #Gatsby/
#haiku

#Race’s clever use/
Added a new patina/
On segregation/
#haiku #Gatsby

Ubiquitous #Blacks/
Reminded viewers of #race/
Without preaching much/
#haiku #Gatsby

Sledding in Woodside Queens 2013

35. Sledding in Woodside/
With the people of the world/
Human gravity/
#haiku

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2/10/13

50. The snowy hillside/
In Woodside’s Doughboy playground/
Is peppered with fun/
#haiku

51. Here Colombians/
Bengalis, Tibetans as/
Americans slide/
#haiku

52. Snowy experience/
ReCaptured digitally/
Are sent to tropics/
#haiku

53. iPad made movies/
Of happy Americans/
Are sent far away/
#haiku

54. Woman with hijab/
Gucci covered iPad films/
Her smiling children/
#haiku

55. Korean father/
Roars down the tree covered hill/
Ecstatically loud/
#haiku

56. Mexican fam’ly/
Unloads children & their sleds/
Then tackle papí/
#haiku

57. Americans all/
We enjoy democracy/
Of our acceptance/
#haiku

36. Sledding with children/
Overshot my playfulness/
Collided with age/
#haiku

37. Clenching rope handles/
Spinning beyond all control/
Damaged ring finger/
#haiku

38. Regretting my ride/
Because I injured myself/
Shows a lack of faith/
#haiku

39. Staying young inside/
More important than safety/
For immortal* souls/
#haiku *eternal

40. Aging bodies recede/
To within our comfort zone/
Abandoning youth/
#haiku

41. Aches and troubles/
Of old immaturity/
Are truly priceless/
#haiku

42. Youthfulness’s worth/
Though dangerous to old men/
Keeps their spirits fresh/
#haiku

43. Adventure’s value/
Is an internal journey/
Exploring within*/
#haiku *our souls

44. The pains in my body/
Temporarily remind/
My mind I’m alive/
#haiku

45. This throbbing finger/
Beats the rhythm of my heart/
Where I can feel it/
#haiku

46. I regret nothing/
Because I’m educated/
By experience/
#haiku

47. While I don’t like pain/
It reminds me I’m alive/
Here to live for now/
#haiku

48. Wedding tourniquet/
The ring keeps my red blood in/
The heart of my life/
#haiku

49. Ring’s Symbol becomes/
An active agent in life/
I cherish it so/
#haiku

Subjectivity of Victims (or why we like the weak)

1. Adorable pets/

Are cute because don’t have/

Subjectivity/

#haiku

2. Modern subjects will/

Protect the most powerless/

To feel meaningful/

#haiku

3. Faraway poor folks/

Tibetans and Fetuses/

Assuage our egos/

#haiku

4. Protect those beings/

Who can’t cut our privilege/

Has to be easy/

#haiku

5. The unborn are not/

Demanding of anyone/

Except the mothers/

#haiku

6. Protecting beings/

Who are not yet born is easy/

‘Cause they cost others/

#haiku

7. Tibetans are real/

In China, Nepal & Queens/

Taking no suburbs/

#haiku

8. Tibetan rights are/

Costs for our rival Chinese/
Not OUR wealth & ease/

#haiku

9. 3rd world Christians are/

Particularly saintly/

(They agree with us)/

#haiku

10. Don’t improve the rights/

Of local people who need/

Because we might LOSE/

#haiku

11. The rights of the poor/

Are reduced to benefit/

The lives of wealthy/

#haiku

12. In China or here/

Giving the poor more freedom/

Costs powerful more/

#haiku

13. Give up your own rights/

limit your own privilege/

To improve the world/

#haiku

14. “Ask not what [the world]/

Can do for you— ask what you/

can do for your [world]/

#haiku

enSlaved Metaphor

33p. enSlaved Metaphor/
Tortured for information/
Regarding this man/
#haiku

33a. Slaves to luxury/
Serving the gilded master/
Demanding our ease/
#haiku

33b. Slaves to property/
Toiling in consumption’s fields/
Harvesting desire/
#haiku

33c. Propriety’s slaves/
Seeing appropriate looks/
Approving of lies/
#haiku

33d. Enslaved by desire:/
Beaten at the whipping post/
Of public longing/
#haiku

33q. Celebrity’s slave/
Cool balm of fame glistening/
Upon abject fear/
#haiku

33e. Enslaved by desire:/
Beaten at the whipping post/
Of covetousness/
#haiku

33f. Enslaved by habits/
I ease into middle age/
Beaten by comforts/
#haiku

33g. My hard master is/
The sloth which is my reward/
For working my job/
#haiku

33h. Taking my comfort/
Supplants dreams of greatness/
With relaxation/
#haiku

33i. My relaxation/
Is the mental camouflage/
I hide my dreams with/
#haiku

33k. Until I admit/
I am a slave to habit/
I cannot escape/
#haiku

33l. Freedom’s frightening/
I am responsible there/
For all my actions/
#haiku

33m. I am so enslaved/
In my abject servitude:/
Maintaining my life/
#haiku

33n. My overseer/
Whips with justification/
In the fields of sloth/
#haiku

33o. Still I won’t escape/
To freedom where I can fail/
(“Better the devil…”)/
#haiku

33j. Thank you for the truth/
My writing has beaten me with/
In your presence G_d/
#haiku

Random Haiku Journal

12-22-12
(Haiku found in journal)

38. Introspection and/
Self-reflection are trouble/
To good consumers/
#haiku

39. Exploring ourselves/
Both conscious and sub-conscious/
Is how to find G_d/
#haiku

40. Rote repetition/
Won’t uncover any good:/
Just bury virtue/
#haiku

41. I need to escape/
The echo-chamber of “me:”/
Rejoin life’s spirit/
#haiku

42. Prayers are like Ego/
“Right some wrong that I perceive/
Omni-potent world!”/
#haiku

43. Doing chores is love*/
I prepare food to “say” love/
Things done to show love/
#haiku
*laundry (pronounced laundERy?) is love in notebook

44. We can give them love/
In daily domestic chores/
(Even teens accept)/
#haiku

45. I cook to show love/
It is the cuddle & hug/
That they* still accept/
#haiku *teens

46. Laundry and cleaning/
Do the same for their mother/
Love that they accept/
#haiku

47. Elaborate meals/
& meticulous cleaning/
Are part vanity/
#haiku

48. “Forgiving others/
Is a [small] gift to yourself[:/
Escape] resentment”/
#haiku via @JonathanLockwoodHuie

49. Freedom is unarmed/
& Peace needs no peacekeepers/
Weapons are problems/
#haiku

50. Guns become weapons/
When they are aimed at people/
It is all intent/
#haiku

51a. Gun Utopias:/
Very bad for Living things/
Heaven doesn’t kill/
#haiku

51b. Gun Utopias:/
Very bad for Living things/
Heaven lacks power/
#haiku

52. “Powerful’s” “Heaven”/
Is hierarchical Hell/
G_d needs no power/
#haiku

Today’s Didactic Haikus

12/21/12
(Check Back for Revisions [opinions are evolving])
26. Firearms are “manhood”/
In the thin definition/
We accept today/
#haiku

27. Popular culture/
Equates firearms with power*/
In America/
#haiku *manhood

28a. People buy firearms/
To express their potency/
In an unfair world/
#haiku

28b. People buy firearms/
To express their agency/
In an unjust world/
#haiku

29. Ev’ry gun owner/
Shoots at fear or victims, though/
They ‘might’ have antlers/
#haiku

30. Guns are “protection”/
For the unsafe world they make:/
Owners are fearful/
#haiku

31. People with firearms/
Live in a world of targets/
Not people & hope/
#haiku

32. Suburban father/
Rural hunter, or gangster/
Guns make them “matter”/
#haiku

33. Firearms give meaning/
To insecure people’s lives/
More than achievements/
#haiku

*Searching for Sugarman* haiku review

Finally went to see *Sugarman* and liked it. But I had some questions about race. I know I am too touchy, but I couldn’t figure out why he went back to Detroit. Also the only villain was the producer, a black guy, in a movie made by liberal South African whites. (& what happened to the daughters’ mother?)
“Things that make you go hmmm”

Here is my haiku review:

Rodriguez

1. Modern fairy tale:/
Was “Searching for Sugarman”/
Some late onset fame/
#haiku

2. Sixto Rodriguez/
Recorded in ’70/
Discovered later/
#haiku

3. A riveting tale/
Of the humility found/
In a working soul/
#haiku

4. The curious thing/
Was his return to Detroit’s/
Anonymity/
#haiku

5. Celebrity calls/
The insecure drop their lives/
Into the hopper/
#haiku

6. Who has the courage/
To reject celebrity?/
Only the righteous/
#haiku

7. Rodriguez returns/
To a shabby hometown love/
Inexplicably/
#haiku

8. Perhaps Rodriguez/
Saw the fame as gossamer/
Krynoline beauty/
#haiku

9. I was so surprised/
The only villain was Black/
And the only Black/
#haiku

Election Morning Haikus

What a nice surprise/
Awake to re-election/
And Obama’s HOPE/
#haiku

America wins/
Digging itself out from cash/
Of election fight/
#haiku

He* tolerated/
Sins and Bigots for a win/
God will remember/
#haiku *Romney

We are one country/
We Hope for better future/
Will we work for peace?/
#haiku

Celebrations start/
Super-pac Money #wasted/
Democracy wins/
#haiku

Equality &/
Freedom seem victorious/
To this liberal/
#haiku

Mega-business holds/
On capitalist system/
Will begin to end/
#haiku

Obstructionist pols/
Will admit the strategy/
Hurt #America/
#haiku

#GOP #nonsense/
Soundly #Repudiated:/
#America #hopes/
#haiku

Time for soul searching/
America asks itself/
Why do I fear Blacks?/
#haiku

We can’t celebrate/
When lies define policy/
As socialism/
#haiku

Hope springs eternal/
Austerity’s avarice/
Motivates some men/
#haiku

Greed’s austerity/
Financed by the billionaires:/
Repudiated/
#haiku

Unity triumphs/
Behind both healthcare & peace/
Keeping life sacred/
#haiku

Lost Webbing

Haiku Thinking & Meditation Revision
26. Reality makes/
Valued possessions into/
Liabilities/
#haiku

11.2.12

27. We lost Internet/
Challenging the “regular”/
Way of doing things/
#haiku

28a. It’s amazing how/
Research reliant we are/
Knowledge and facts rule/
#haiku

28b. It’s amazing how/
We are research reliant/
Knowledge and facts rule/
#haiku

28c. It’s amazing how/
We are research reliant:/
Information rules/
#haiku

28d. Research reliance/
Facts so Fluidly evolve/
We depend on WEB/
#haiku

28e. Research reliance:/
Facts’ fluidity makes/
Internet Gold/
#haiku

28d. Research reliance:/
Facts’ fluidity makes/
The modern world sane/
#haiku

On Beauty

2. Being “beautiful”/
Without any confidence/
In yourself destroys*/
#haiku *erodes

3. Beauty’s burden weighs/
Heavily upon women/
When Objectified/
#haiku

4a. Actual beauty/
Invisible to the eye/
Undeniably/

5b. Actual beauty/
Invisible to the eye/
A fact to the heart/
#haiku

5c. Actual beauty/
Invisible to the eye/
But plain to the soul/
#haiku

6. Gossamer beauty/
Pleases the lower senses/
But can’t feed the soul/
#haiku

7a. Accepted beauty/
Are “looks” empty calories/
Sweet not nourishing/
#haiku

7b. Accepted beauty/
Social empty calories/
Sweet not nourishing/
#haiku

8. Friendship is a feast/
While desire’s satisfaction/
Can leave us starving/
#haiku

9a. Gaining ev’rything/
Can leave people abandoned/
Amongst vapid toys/
#haiku

9b. Gaining ev’rything/
Can leave our souls abandoned/
Amidst emptiness/
#haiku

10. These observations/
Upon beauty and desire/
Come too late for me/
#haiku

11. Decades already spent/
Victim of social desire/
Leaves me with today/
#haiku

12. Knowing that desire/
Is a social competition/
As much as real joy/
#haiku

13. Knowing what I know/
I’m grateful for my mistakes/
& accept the past/
#haiku