A Composer's Notebook - Kyle Gullings

Haiku from Hawaii 31

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:46:07 PST

Dislodge, piece of me,
for one prolonged moment. The
rest surely follows.

Haiku from Hawaii 30

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:10:13 PST

Quick, preserve your Self!
In books, towers, wars, children,
Earth. (None turns the trick.)

Haiku from Hawaii 29

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:42:55 PST

Trim exotic shrubs
from my tangled garden with
familiar weeding.

Haiku from Hawaii 28

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:03:23 PST

You wave good-bye. Stop
to consider these moments,
precious and fragile.

Haiku from Hawaii 27

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:03:42 PST

Wave after wave grinds
us into fine grains of sand.
How very stubborn!

Haiku from Hawaii 26

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:02:08 PST

Two-hundred pairs of
hands and two-hundred pairs of
feet form a fine poem.

Haiku from Hawaii 25

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:01:16 PST

A disc silently
spins two-hundred precious hopes
toward the horizon.

Haiku from Hawaii 24

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:09:24 PST

We innocent wisps
again become nothingness.
The wheel lurches right.

Haiku from Hawaii 23

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:12:09 PST

This half-faced beast stirs
terrors. I restore calm. Yet,
it happens again.

Haiku from Hawaii 22

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:22:00 PST

An alarm intrudes
from the recent past. Now I
move only slightly.

Haiku from Hawaii 21

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:29:05 PST

No carefully planned
opus am I (a content
improvisation).

Haiku from Hawaii 20

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:46:39 PST

She sneaks into my
room - or I into hers - one
degree at a time.

Haiku from Hawaii 19

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:47:45 PST

Reverberations,
lessons you can't help but learn,
are somehow dampened.

Haiku from Hawaii 18

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:38:31 PDT

Their wedding. His pride.
Your coffee stain. My failures.
All of no concern?

Haiku from Hawaii 17

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:33:21 PDT

I blink and push a
very useful switch. The sun
creeps up unnoticed.

Haiku from Hawaii 16

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:12:56 PDT

Potential, swaying
gently in view. You know your
proper time to speak.

Haiku from Hawaii 15

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:32:42 PDT

Juice by me? I guess
it's better than juice on me.
But o! juice in me!

Haiku from Hawaii 14

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:35:10 PDT

Return. Return. Turn.
Focus on - return. Just breathe
through the cycles of -

Haiku from Hawaii 13

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:33:34 PDT

These overwhelming
trivialities of my
life are custom-made.

Haiku from Hawaii 12

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:18:33 PDT

Burning, infrequent
yet predictable, runs in
patches over me.

Haiku from Hawaii 11

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:16:25 PDT

Brown-orange earth clings fast
to black sandals - relic of
a recent journey.

Haiku from Hawaii 10

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:46:42 PDT

Good morning, morning.
A new half-circle again
proclaims: "becoming!"

Haiku from Hawaii 9

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:44:41 PDT

O that I could be
simple, single-minded, and
here, now, intentioned.

Haiku from Hawaii 8

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:56:31 PDT

Asymmetrical,
I await my encounter
with a great tension.

Haiku from Hawaii 7

gullings@gmail.com (Kyle Gullings) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:39:46 PDT

Every day the same
cycles confront me, yet I
don't see them coming.