philo haiku

befittingly lost
in translation of my thoughts
do (s)miles for someone

paradis

Far away from everybody
terrible things
happen
in my village cocoon
in Paradise
even here you cannot
feel protected.

Santa's elf

saw an elf yesterday
he was talking
about his job at a store
a funny elf
who saw too much
of foibles and feebles
of frantic footings
of foolishness
and yet ...
sympathetic to
human frailty



Thanks to Bruce Nelson
for his reading of
"SantaLand Diaries"

Unclimate haiku

Too hot rainy day
global warm(n)ing the climate
umbrella or not

Holiday greetings

Why do people write
the X-mas card, Hanukkah
or Kwanzaa or any other?
To connect, to say -
look I am still here -not dead.
The new trend "what-did-we
-do-good-this-past-year"
portends bragging rights
or at least a form thereof.
Only once have I seen a bad
one like my husband deserted me,
the dog died, the canary
pooped on the boss when he came
to dinner-my son is doing jail.
Well, once a year we all pretend
that we have a good time
even though some of us live through
hell, suffering from the month
when the mother-in-law takes over
everything - even your cat.
This rage the computer embedded
and now - we all have wonderful
memories of the year's happenings.
Erased are the bad times - surely
everything is fine -
let's write one for the US this year.
Bush year 8, economy bad,
oil prices high and then artificially low,
wall street even worse,
the housing crises up, no one's buying,
the car industry dead, the scandals
are coming out, but not the biggest one yet.
But, everything is just fine otherwise.
So, dear Mr. Putin, Happy Christmas, oh
so sorry I forgot you don't celebrate,
well, Happy whatever, because in the US
we are OK, and we can boast about one thing
we are getting a new president - who
hopefully will change the way we think.
What lovely Holiday Greetings.

Banks' delusions

Brutal banks
claiming to look after
your money
when only hoarding theirs.
The hurt they inflict
erodes the trust
so ...
what to do when the robbers are
in your own backyard?
Two options
wait and hope for the best
or .... rebel and unionize
the credit unions
you don't get much -
less is more
in the new world order
majority rules?
Nah - delusions!

Dogs are dears

Arranging for the family dog
to be fed and walked
when everybody is working on
a different schedule
seems sometimes insurmountable,
yet with flexibility
the issue has to be worked out
since the pet cannot open doors
except to every one's heart
we all understand
that we have to give a little
to get a lot.
Dogs are democratizers.

Frosty lawn

December chill lawn
the economy worsens
with waging war
and greedy moguls -
power-hungry puppets
with aggrandished egos.
What monumental failure
of global proportions
when the sun hides behind
darkening clouds
and the grass glistens
frostily and still.

Elves from afar

The cutout elves have arrived
as they do every year
since my childhood -
countdown
to Christmas Eve.
24 naughty paper elves
magically appears
one for each day
on paintings, on pictures,
on bookshelves,
all around the house...
and my children go
searching for them
like me then ... even today.
They know I put them up -
I knew my mom added them -
to our home in December,
but that little whiff
of elves' dust from a past
of bygone times
cannot hurt anybody -
and I hope the tradition
will continue
with our granchildren.
thus believing that
in spite of everything
little traditions
carry a light of elf magic.