Caveat: Poem #3226 "Where are you going?"

#Poetry #Tetractys

ㅁ
birds
fly left
and then right
and then around
frankly they seem really indecisive

- a tetractys.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2025/06/06/caveat-poem-3226/

Caveat: Poem #3218 "The story so far"

ㅁ
The rain cleaned it all.
It washed all under heaven.
I'm sure that'll last.

- a pseudo-haiku.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2025/05/29/caveat-poem-3218/

Caveat: 듀오링고 일년후

One year ago, yesterday, I was on the bus to the Incheon airport after a short sojourn in Seoul. I'd been visiting friends and was returning from a multi-leg trip down to Australia to see my mom, who'd been having health problems.

I was annoyed with myself because I'd realized during my short visit that I had forgotten even more Korean than I thought I had. I wanted to figure out some way to make a habit...

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2025/05/24/caveat-ilnyeonhu/

Caveat: Poem #3216 "Shy night"

#Poetry #Nonnet

ㅁ
This time of year, at this latitude,
the night arrives reluctantly.
The day is overbearing,
bragging about colors,
hanging out too long,
offering views,
lingering
above
hills.

- a nonnet.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2025/05/27/caveat-poem-3216/

Caveat: Poem #3215 "<rant>"

#Poetry #Nonnet

ㅁ
I'm tired of the damanged, drifting minds
of the elderly, who react
with their anxious prejudice
against irrational
constructs of social
tradition, and
complaining,
cannot
stop.

- a nonnet.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2025/05/26/caveat-poem-3215/

Caveat: Poem #3214 "The rain gauge said"

#Poetry #Haiku #Senryu

ㅁ
Two inches of rain
fell on the trees yesterday...
on other things too.

- a pseudo-haiku.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2025/05/25/caveat-poem-3214/

Caveat: Poem #3212 "Through the kitchen window"

#Poetry #Tetractys

ㅁ
sea!
down there
through branches
a bit of light
the water reflects a flash of morning

- a nonnet.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2025/05/23/caveat-poem-3212/

Caveat: Poem #3211 "Taking her time"

#Poetry #Nonnet

ㅁ
Shrouded in a gauze of mists and clouds,
bedecked with stones and verdant trees,
the mountain was quite demure.
She awaited something
unprecedented,
geologic,
and worthwhile:
the next
age.

- a nonnet.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2025/05/22/caveat-poem-3211/

Caveat: Poem #3210 "The apocalypse of senescence"

#Poetry #Nonnet

ㅁ
Everyone got old all at once.
This created endless problems.
People forgot what to do.
They ranted against things,
wondering about
all the changes
they themselves
had just
wrought.

- a nonnet.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2025/05/21/caveat-poem-3210/

Caveat: Poem #3140 "Pacific"

#Poetry #Haiku #Senryu #SoutheastAlaska #Photography

ㅁ
a lavender dawn
our alaskan dock, fresh snow,
a sea: pacific

- a pseudo-haiku.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2025/03/11/caveat-poem-3140/

@RamenCatholic Satan was trapped in the body of Henry Kissinger. When Kissinger died, Satan was at last free to seek a new host. Guess who he picked?

Caveat: Poem #3113 "The drive to town"

#Poetry #Nonnet #Photography #SoutheastAlaska

ㅁ
The road was coated in snow and ice.
But the still air was cold enough
that it was not slippery.
Tendrils rose from the sea.
On my drive to town,
some ravens sat
alongside
watching
things.

- a nonnet.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2025/02/12/caveat-poem-3113/

#Photography #SoutheastAlaska

Out my bedroom window just past dawn...

Caveat: Poem #3079 "Shasta"

#Poetry #Haiku #Senryu #Photography

ㅁ
I looked down at Earth,
at the sleeping volcanoes
in raiments of snow.

- a pseudo-haiku.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2025/01/09/caveat-poem-3079/

Caveat: Poem #3070 "Mid-December moonrise"

#Poetry #Haiku #Senryu #Photography #SoutheastAlaska

ㅁ
a few weeks ago
the chilly moon rose above
the grocery store

- a pseudo-haiku.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2024/12/31/caveat-poem-3070/

Caveat: Poem #3012 "Unbelievable savings!"

#Poetry #Triolet

ㅁ
The light was saved for half a year
the sun, it goes along, it seems:
we play with clocks, quite cavalier.

The light was saved for half a year
with so much light, things will be clear:
no more of those annoying dreams.

The light was saved for half a year
the sun, it goes along, it seems.

- a triolet.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2024/11/03/caveat-poem-3012/

Caveat: Boat outta water

#SoutheastAlaska #Photography

An autumnal ritual, we got the boat out of the water.

I work on cleaning it a bit, tomorrow, but the bottom is remarkably free of nefarious barnacles - probably a consequence of how late we put it in the water this year. I'm grateful for the neighbors' help on pulling it out this morning - Arthur's situational awareness is so minimal, these days, that he was...

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2024/10/26/caveat-boat-outta-water-2/

Caveat: Poem #2995 "The full moon"

#Poetry #Nonnet

ㅁ
Assertions of luminosity:
the moon proffers her axioms.
To wit: autumnal changes,
after the equinox,
include stormy gales,
driving downpours,
lost rainbows,
blowing
leaves.

- a nonnet.

https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2024/10/17/caveat-poem-2995/