f/k/a archives . . . real opinions & real haiku

2004 was a very good year for the characters who hang out at   “kholly” .

 

Prof. Yabut and ethicalEsq got to retire (and butt in sua sponte). haikuEsq 

has been able to share with you some of the very best contemporary haiku

(plus the work of the imitable Master Issa) — due to the generosity of more than

a dozen Honored Guest Poets.  Plus, dagosan has had a place to begin to learn

the haijin craft, with daily deadlines to inspire productivity.

 

We want to thank all our visitors, plus the webloggers who keep us informed

and entertained, and on our many toes.  So, below are an array of haiku that touch

on various feelings and themes, which human beings all around this planet share

as one year ends and the new year brings hopes and challenges, with renewed

faith and energy and community.  We’ve dedicated each to one of our weblog friends

and colleagues, but feel free to mix and match and find your own favorites.

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  Happy Hollidays to All who who have joined this humble venture and made it a

  
  

  fun and fulfilling adventure!  

 

for Wm. J. Dyer of Beldar

piano practice

our scowling child plays

Ode to Joy                     

                       Tom Painting, from piano practice    

 

 

 

for Denise Howell at Bag&Baggage

on New Year’s day
a cute little pilgrim
at the gate

                                Kobayashi Issa

                                                   translated by David G. Lanoue

 

for RiskProf‘s poohbear-poobah Prof. Martin Grace “santaDudeNegF”

 

naughty child–
instead of his chores
a snow Buddha

                            Kobayashi Issa,

                                             translated by David G. Lanoue 

 

 

for Michael “Fed84” Cernovich at Crime & Federalism  

 

oh New Year’s god
this year too
send help!

                  Kobayashi Issa,

                                translated by David G. Lanoue 

for sarni downunder at Infernality

waves of light
up and down the tree
fireflies

             Martin Gottlieb Cohen  

                          TinyWords.com (Dec. 18, 2000) 

 

 

 

 a pair for friend George Wallace of The Fool in the Forest

and Declarations & Exclusions

other lights

than our own–

the Milky Way

                              Gary Hotham

                            The Heron’s Nest  III:1

 

 

 

 

a present, a present
a New Year’s present!
her healthy face

                          Kobayashi Issa,

                                    translated by David G. Lanoue  

 

 

 

for B.J. Grenier at BenefitsBlog

 

snow flurries

candlelight moving

from window to window

                              paul m, The Heron’s Nest I:4

 

 

 

for the ANON-chalant-LAW PROF

 

 

a red flush

on the amaryllis bud

New Year’s Eve

                     Pamela Miller Ness,

                                The Heron’s Nest VI: 1

 

for Jerry Lawson at eLawyerBlog

home for Christmas:

my childhood desk drawer

empty

                          Michael Dylan Welch, Open Window,  

                                                     haiku & photograph  original

 

 

for Ken Lammers at CrimLaw 

bitter cold

the bell ringer —

peppermint breath

                                    Tom Painting,

                                          The Heron’s Nest V:12

                                                                                  

 

for the godfather of blog Ernie Svenson

shortest day

the highrise disappears

into indigo

                      Pamela Miller Ness 

 

 

 

for UCL, our Uncivil Litigator

the year’s first rain–
my grass roof’s
first leak

                  Kobayashi Issa,

                           translated by David G. Lanoue 

 

 

 for Tom Mighell at Inter Alia

which lucky direction
for drinking sake?
New Year’s almanac

                               Kobayashi Issa

                                            translated by David G. Lanoue 

                              

 

for Evan Schaeffer at Underground Notes etc.

year’s end

the bartender

blocks my reflection

                           Tom Painting,

                                         The Heron’s Nest

 

 

for Ted Frank and Walter Olson at Overlawyered   

 

a new year begins–
nonsense
piled on nonsense

             Kobayashi Issa,

                          translated by David G. Lanoue 

 

for story-spinner Scheherazade

 

Christmas morning

a yellow ribbon

of sun

                    Alice Frampton,

                          The Heron’s Nest V:12

 

for Nancy Stinson at StarkCountyLawLib

paying no mind
to the year’s last day…
a floating bird, asleep
                                 Kobayashi Issa,

                                              translated by David G. Lanoue 
      

 

 

  for Rick Klau at tins 

first snow

at every window

a child’s face

                                Roberta Beary

                                 worldhaiku, Haiku Happens (1998)  “

 

 

 

for Prof. Bainbridge at his eponymous weblog 

for drinking buddies
the usual New Year’s pilgrimage…
sake shop

                Kobayashi Issa,

                                       translated by David G. Lanoue 

 

 

for Rufus T. Firefly at Running with Lawyers

feeding pigeons

on Christmas morning ~

the can collector’s red socks

 

                        Pamela Miller Ness from the haiku sequence

                                            “Can Collector’s Red Socks” (2003)

                                         

 

for Dennis Kennedy of  DMK.com

backstreet–
on the year’s last day
a lover cat

                              Kobayashi Issa,

                                            translated by David G. Lanoue 

 

 

 

for our haiku President George W. Bush  “santaDudeNeg” 

        drifted snow

the welcome disappears

     from the doormat      

                               Jim Kacian 

                                              from Presents of Mind,