Come to My Sweet Melody

2010-04-21T22:27:00.000-07:00

And where does one go
after he dies?
Back into the place
before one’s eyes?

2009-07-27T14:39:00.000-07:00

Jessica and I
sending instant messages
churping night crickets

2009-05-08T18:55:00.000-07:00

New Ways of Understanding

With the dimming light of an April sunset, a shadow silently awakens the lizard with the shrill of a morning alarm.

2008-12-15T02:58:00.001-08:00

The weight of emptiness is so heavy.

2008-12-05T18:06:00.000-08:00

swinging on a web
a pair of amber pine leaves
reft by Autumn wind

2008-09-20T17:35:00.000-07:00

My heart flutters slightly
alone on a summer night
with the nightbox.

I step outside
where the night moth dances around
a large spider web.

2008-05-08T23:34:00.000-07:00

A gentle shuffle
sleeping on the bunkhouse bed
while the night hounds bark

2008-05-08T23:30:00.000-07:00

A boy and a girl
on the old campfire log
lit by amber rain

2008-05-08T23:28:00.000-07:00

The airplane takeoff
a slight rumble shakes the plane
a stomach empty

2008-03-03T21:40:00.000-08:00

Her Poem Knows No Name

Pale skin light
and the soft red blush
of her hair
feign as the piston and petals
of an ordinary flower

Her flower knows no botany;

beyond color and smell
and beyond the reach
of other bumblebees

For their sake;
otherwise their honey would forever seem
bitter

Her flower
knows no poetry;
sitting beyond the reach of my metaphors
so I humbly say:
I
love
you
and really do--

The lioness has no mane except in the eyes of her lion.

2007-07-29T03:09:00.000-07:00

summer night...summer night...

2007-05-26T16:28:00.000-07:00

Depressed Because My Mom Forced Me To Garden

who planted your seed
little weed
ill make you go away
with my green spray
and in time
you'll be slime
and I could play with you
cause im slime too

2007-05-24T21:17:00.000-07:00

I wrote this story over the summer, I dont know why I'm posting it nearly a year later...

Summer Night

2007-05-10T00:59:00.000-07:00

Warding Off Bitterness:
everyone has their place
everyone has their place
everyone has their place
everyone has their place
everyone has their place
everyone has their place
everyone has their place
everyone has their place
everyone has their place
everyone has their place
everyone has their place
everyone has their place

2007-05-10T00:54:00.000-07:00

Now seperated
how lost I am without you
fallen contact lense

2007-05-10T00:52:00.000-07:00

Russian girl
with big eyes
never called me back
really sucked

2007-04-06T15:29:00.000-07:00

widescreen monitor
not wide enough to block my
meeting eyelashes

2007-03-30T00:47:00.000-07:00

Ideals and Insects

Only when looking up did everything seem so impossibly far. So I looked down on women and all I had to do was reach down a little bit. Now insects are my stars.

2007-03-26T14:04:00.000-07:00

Haiku

next to the window;
without a sound my cellphone
rings with failure

2007-03-08T17:10:00.000-08:00

Haiku (The Bus Chronicles)

Waiting for the bus
the squirrels jumping and playing
on leafless branches

accidental glance
hey man stop looking at me
homosexual

A touching embrace
between two complete strangers
violent speed bump

2007-02-04T00:52:00.000-08:00

Aphorism

Hitchhike on the hearts of other girls to reach Her

2007-02-04T00:48:00.000-08:00

Haiku

one in the morning
rising the gullotine's blade
setting the alarm

2007-01-21T20:10:00.000-08:00

Haiku*

another sunset
sitting on a Winter leaf
little hummingbird

*This haiku stemmed from me watching a hummingbird sitting on leaf while the sun was setting. Most of my haiku stem from empirical observation. Upon later reflection it's interesting how the connotative mood of the haiku always seems to reflect that of my own.

2007-01-14T21:21:00.000-08:00

Haiku- SKI TRIP!

The afternoon sun
softly through the car window
highlights her hair

First time in the snow
instinctively a snowball
thrown at Mazy's head

A six-hour drive
to get away from nagging
--then there was Ziba

My first time skiing
above the snow a flower
hey its a Jasmine

The sky instructor
"hey shutup and let me teach"
after nagging him

My first ski lesson
I watch the beautiful snow
drop like asain girls

That Elana girl
in seventeen syllables
no no no no no

Group organizer
vomits and sleeps in the tub
Mike Yadigari

"Hey man you're dripping"
--its offensive when you're drunk
angry expression

I ask Persian girls
to please turn down the music
before I vomit

Shirin doesn't ask
'what will you do with that!?'
I want to hug her

2007-01-11T18:46:00.000-08:00

Winter

My self-esteem is seasonal
-Winter

2007-01-05T01:12:00.000-08:00

Haiku*

on a windy night
the fir tree agrees with him
on a windy night

*after hundreds of haiku, I think I've come up with my own unique style. Basically, L1 and L3 are identical however L3 has a subtle difference in connotation in light of L2. I've done it before in another haiku:

the little lizard
does push-ups on Spring concrete
the little lizard

2007-01-02T17:21:00.000-08:00

Haiku

outside the party
midnight smoke rings wobble up
and outline the moon

2006-12-29T16:14:00.000-08:00

Diary 1

I was always opposed to publishing diary entries,and I still am. I'm writing this diary series to stimulate thought and writing again since I've been lagging in both. I think these entires may have some viewing value because I tried to make them interesting and they aren't really diary entries anyways, theyre more like short stories. Anways, here is the link:

Diary 1

2006-12-27T00:57:00.000-08:00

Relationships and Stuff...

Only after they twist your stomach into a paperclip do you begin to hold it together

2006-12-24T01:11:00.000-08:00

Haiku

On a night moutain
watching city lights flicker
with a churping sound

2006-12-09T20:56:00.000-08:00

Untitled

Are you amused at the way I impose poetic order onto my life;
one haiku at a time?

2006-12-09T20:53:00.000-08:00

Philosophy

I'm determined to do well

2006-12-05T20:31:00.000-08:00

You Come to Realize...

The guiltiest are the least guilty.

2006-12-05T01:11:00.000-08:00

Haiku

a soft, summer sky
pierced by the autumn sunset
California

2006-11-27T00:49:00.000-08:00

untitled poem

a full moon;
the loving child
they wane away tenderly
into black outlines
of what they once were

The funs and joys
of childhood toys
are gone

--Until you meet a girl
and feelings twirl
through your eyes
stars in stuff
in full moon skies

a full moon;
the loving girl
they wane away tenderly
into black outlines
of what they once were

This relationship
is an extension of me
but again I never became
what I wanted to be

2006-11-12T18:16:00.000-08:00

Descriptive/Prescritive

they go
I go

2006-10-30T19:37:00.000-08:00

Haiku

On windy pavement
brown maple leaves end summer
with a scraping sound

2006-10-27T17:05:00.000-07:00

Haiku

a tree in motion
baby squirrels twist and wrestle
under the tree shade

2006-10-22T21:14:00.000-07:00

Summer Night

The crickets churp outside
on a pale-stale couch I lied
watching green-glare-t.v.-shadows
hit the ceiling

the absent feeling

the bathroom facet
the refrigerator hum
hmmmmmmmmmm

2006-10-22T03:31:00.000-07:00

Night Puddle

As a boy I thought I could grab the stars out of the night puddle. I grew up and realized it was stupid.

2006-10-09T22:59:00.000-07:00

Reproduction

reproduction of copyrighted material

2006-10-08T21:21:00.000-07:00

Bleak

no light
late at night
what a sight..

2006-09-26T13:11:00.000-07:00

Haiku

the big glass window
so many cars whizzing by
and cars whizzing by

2006-09-26T13:09:00.000-07:00

Haiku

tropical rainstorm
limbo on a sandy beach
little cubicle

2006-09-21T18:29:00.000-07:00

Computer

zig
click
zag
click
zig
click
zag
click

see ya tomorrow!

2006-09-21T18:26:00.000-07:00

Answering Machine

...
......
--beep

2006-09-17T18:47:00.000-07:00

Haiku

climbing the moutain
hey man come check out how big
this butterfly is

2006-09-17T18:45:00.000-07:00

Haiku

I sat on a rock
sunlight really strained my eyes
walk back to the car

2006-09-17T18:44:00.000-07:00

Haiku

flower by flower
my summer bumblebee
writing the haiku

2006-09-12T01:03:00.000-07:00

Berkeley's Door

passing unfamiliar roads
on the distance a green light
tints the stop sign

It smoked

2006-09-03T10:35:00.000-07:00

Haiku

a warm summer night
like a gladiator, I
wrestle my pillow

2006-08-29T13:02:00.000-07:00

Darkness Driving

Black nights
Pavement reflections
Dolor bursts to anger
Over red lights

Lights and law grow thin
These nocturnal times
The red-light circles
Turn to red lines

Dark pavement
Dark sky
Bitterness
Black
to blacker

2006-08-25T17:02:00.000-07:00

Haiku

outside the school yard
as I wait for my brother
I love my mother

2006-08-24T01:44:00.000-07:00

Haiku

just imagine it
we'd be perfect together...
ummm actually

2006-08-18T19:10:00.000-07:00

Haiku

buzzing computer
drowned out by nervous chatter
dull presentation

2006-08-14T01:24:00.000-07:00

I wrote another (very) short story. Anyone who has ever worked in an office will appreciate it. The story is dense, some themes include: human psychology as we are only sure of two things, a) we are alive, b) we will die, as opposed to pieces of electronical equipment like computers. The natural resistance a normal person would have to confinement, computers, artificial structures ect..., and the distorted perceptions of reality people develop in reaction to pain. This giving away too much already. Anyways the link is below

My Computer

2006-08-14T01:00:00.000-07:00

Haiku

pair of pink pigeons
gracefully glide side-by-side
into the sunset

2006-08-11T04:41:00.000-07:00

Prayer #1

The days have not yet expired;
I will wait for her

2006-08-11T04:40:00.000-07:00

Haiku

picking up my mom
the moon follows me to the
LAX airport

2006-08-10T00:16:00.000-07:00

Summer Night

The churping of crickets become as regular as my pulse

2006-08-07T02:03:00.000-07:00

Haiku

forgetting to look
both ways before he crosses
little butterfly

2006-08-07T01:57:00.000-07:00

Haiku*

Time pounds my spirit
as waves pound the teary shore.
Raging tsunami.

*I cant believe its been two years since I wrote this.

2006-08-02T01:06:00.000-07:00

Haiku

VCR light blink
VCR light blink
VCR light blink

2006-08-01T01:07:00.000-07:00

(lack of) Love #2:
Eliza

Pink glowing
of a dim sunset
vanilla ice cream
could have made you smile
puffing your cheeks
round
beautiful
smooth
rejection
missed call
after missed call
after missed call

2006-07-28T16:06:00.000-07:00

Haiku

as the sky turns black
the night crickets churp louder
and she doesn't call

2006-07-25T00:43:00.000-07:00

(lack of) Love #1:
Desiree'

So the heat made shadows
dancing across the pavement
imitating your Persian hair
twirling
&
curling
in my mind
I still ignore the thick summer thighs
of curvy girls

2006-07-23T23:24:00.000-07:00

Untitled

Pink and white flower petals stuck to the gritty streets of White Oak. I hunched along thinking about how untastefully the petals... I noticed a white butterfly gliding around a tiny flower petal as it spun to the ground; fool thought that it had found a lover. I remember tingling with solace knowing that nature had designed a creature more pathetic than myself. I walked up to the fallen petal; before I realized what had happened the petal sprung up into the air and the two of them just flew off together.

2006-07-18T12:47:00.000-07:00

Haiku*

As she ponders life
the ocean breeze meets her face...
so does my Frisbee.

*Based on a true story. Probably the funniest haiku I've ever written (or more precisely co-written). I was playing frisbee with my friend Dor on the beach and we hit quite a few people that day. I dont know why, but I think its more funny when Frisbee is capitalized.

2006-07-18T12:42:00.000-07:00

Haiku*

dirty puddle in
the Koo-Koo-Roo parking lot
little dragonfly

*see comments on 7/11 post

2006-07-17T01:45:00.000-07:00

Gathering Lonely Nights

I caressed the back of a lonely night because I would never see it again.

2006-07-11T22:49:00.000-07:00

Haiku

grazing the puddle
of a dirty parking lot
little dragonfly

2006-07-07T01:07:00.000-07:00

Haiku*

briefly our eyes meet
she is just too beautiful
blue linoleum

*for a long time I considered this to be the best haiku I've ever written.

2006-07-02T09:42:00.000-07:00

Haiku

summer afternoon
may I ask where you're going
little dragonfly

2006-06-29T17:17:00.000-07:00

Haiku

very recklessly
it explodes past the stop sign
the little black ant

2006-06-28T23:10:00.000-07:00

Dinner

buzz...buzz...buzz...
buzz...buzz...
buzz...

2006-06-28T02:19:00.000-07:00

Haiku

cool summer morning
soft flowery perfume of
the urinal mint

2006-06-27T17:26:00.000-07:00

Weekday

First round knockout;
Tuesday

2006-06-20T00:56:00.000-07:00

Haiku

A cool summer's wind
shakes the porcupine's needles
resting on her head

2006-06-19T22:35:00.000-07:00

Haiku

a boring lecture
pen, window, girl, pen, window...
girl, girl, girl, girl, girl

2006-06-19T22:34:00.000-07:00

Haiku

a fly grazes past
the head of an Asian girl
and lands on my desk

2006-06-15T01:41:00.000-07:00

Acne

Its like playing whack-a-mole on your face.

2006-06-14T01:01:00.000-07:00

meta-physics

The constant is light

2006-06-14T00:59:00.000-07:00

Haiku

billowing chalk cloud
as my physics professor
drops his eraser

2006-06-13T00:25:00.000-07:00

*&-C'0/\/\p-uT3R-+_#

Tundra:

strained,
dry, red
eyes

Waterfall:

weighted eyelids
crash down
shield

PIXELS ARE SYRINGES:
thin blades
through tender, brown eyes

a gargoyle
with glasses
--I hunch

2006-06-12T23:23:00.000-07:00

Moloko - Sing it Back

The inspiration for my blog title. OK, I owe my legions of fans some more explaination for posting this disco garbage: I first heard this song in 1999 in Isreal when it was being played on a non-stop rotation. I moved to back to America in 2002, and on my recent trip to Israel I heard the song on MTV again; it was then that I realized that possibly the best line in the history of music was out of the mouth of Moloko.

2006-06-12T02:45:00.000-07:00

Haiku

"It's hurting my eyes"
"What does he think he's doing"
--The wedding dancefloor

2006-06-11T17:31:00.000-07:00

With a Morose Expression

I've noticed that there are those guys who cry before their wedding, and those who shed tears...

2006-06-11T00:40:00.000-07:00

Seventeen syllables is worth a thousand words.

2006-06-08T03:24:00.000-07:00

Haiku

shining off the door
of the BMW
working Mexicans

2006-06-08T03:08:00.000-07:00

HUH?

"Phil, you'll never look at me like the old -----, but I'll tell you anyways..."

EXpLOsIoN
KaBLoOeY
VIeTnaM
NaPAlM
RuBbLE
9/11

@#&^#@&amp;^@*&#
*&@#*&@*#&@
why did he
@#*@#&*@#&@#
tell me that ???/11/1?
@#**#&*@&#*@#

2006-06-06T23:24:00.000-07:00

Haiku

Los Angeles moon
reflected on the window
a naked lightbulb

2006-06-06T02:55:00.000-07:00

Haiku

the evening crickets
cellphone with low battery
chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp...

2006-06-05T17:20:00.000-07:00

Haiku

the chirping of birds
while my grandmother argues
with the gardener

2006-06-05T17:17:00.000-07:00

Haiku

staring at the boy
until he looks back at her
then she looks away

2006-06-01T14:17:00.000-07:00

Untitled

There blooms a week toward the end of spring when the girls wear nothing but their smooth tans to pay me back for all the sordid glances that I've avoided.

2006-05-31T20:35:00.000-07:00

Haiku*

a passing spring wind
gently sways the maple leaves
waving me goodbye

*I wrote this haiku my last real day of community college.

2006-05-31T02:31:00.000-07:00

Haiku

the morning birds sing
but I stumble into class
Frankenstien style

2006-05-29T22:27:00.000-07:00

Spring's Dregs

Dull humming
of the refrigerator
follows me outside
like a trail of grey smoke
late
late
early
early
sleeping scheduales
make no difference
im still
droopy
and
tired
and yet
boredom's humming
is blown away on tomorrow's zephyr

2006-05-28T16:51:00.001-07:00

to Society

they want you to fake it, but never admit to it

2006-05-28T16:09:00.000-07:00

Haiku

stars in the Spring sky
an ambitious soccerball
hits me in the groin