Haiku About The Alberta Badlands City of Drumheller

Haiku About The Alberta Badlands City of Drumheller


Drumheller Badlands
T-Rex by bridge sees archfoe
Christ on the far hills

Haiku About Superman

Haiku About Superman


He came from Krypton
to our own daily planet
Clark Kent in disguise

Haiku About Cecil The Lion Killed By Trophy Hunter In Zimbabwe

Haiku About Cecil The Lion Killed By Trophy Hunter In Zimbabwe


Killer's toothy smile
Trophy ensures the lion
does not sleep tonight

Haiku About The Tiger and The Bunny Rabbits In A Friend's Garden

Haiku About The Tiger And The Bunny Rabbits In A Friend's Garden

He's friendly tiger
likes little bunny rabbits
he will not eat them

Haiku About The Snake-Dragon Woman of Sarawak Malaysian Village Folklore

Haiku About The Snake-Dragon Woman of Sarawak Malaysian Village Folklore


Boys tease snake-dragon
She warns she'll eat them at night
See boys cry pout run

Haiku About Tiger Woods In 2015

Haiku About Tiger Woods In 2015


Broken tiger
has broken spirit
Golf becomes Greek tragedy

Phoenix On The Temple Mount On The 9th of Av

Phoenix On The Temple Mount On The 9th of Av


A Phoenix unseen to the human eye
seen only by those with spiritual vision
this Phoenix lived a happy life on Mount Fuji, Japan
but now was its time to die
It would return to its rocky home in the sands of Arabia
Build itself a pyre nest of aromatic branches
and then cover it with the spice of myrrh
Then throw on some frankincense
and set it on fire
And then consume itself in the flames.
So like the salmon returning to the streams of its birth in British Columbia in order to spawn, so the Phoenix would return to the sands of its birth in Arabia in order to die.
The Phoenix sang a happy song as it flew west
away from its adopted land of the rising sun
to a land far closer to the setting sun
as it neared the sunset of its own life
A song as sung by one expectant to reach Paradise
It was flying home to its terrestrial home
to serve as the gate of entry to its celestial home
As it neared the Arabian Peninsula, it wept tears of joy
but those watery eyes would soon be overcome by rings of smoke
caused by the fires of war burning below
and those tears of joy turned to tears of mourning as it noticed its rocky home had been destroyed by missiles
caused by the bloodbath whose whirlpools flowed between Yemeni Houthi rebel and Saudi soldier
It flew further west still
searching for a new place to die
The Bird of Paradise
overcome by the visions of Tartarus playing out on the surface of the earth below
It flew until it could fly no more
Its heart tried to keep beating until it could beat no more
its song of joy a distant tune whose melody was rapidly being forgotten
The bird dropped down
and down
and down
And fell on top of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem
on this 9th of Av in the Hebrew lunar year 5775
The Gregorian solar calendar date of  July 25th 2015.
For one brief shining moment
this beautiful rainbow coloured feather giant bird
stood proudly up on its feet
spread its wings
and sang out its cry
a cry of despair across the universal sky
Tears of blood fell from its eyes
and poured down its body
and then it fell to the ground
and died.
No human eye could see the fierce fire that burned on the Temple Mount.


-A narrative free verse poem
 written by Christopher
 Saturday July 25th
 2015.


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When Dragons Make Love: A Haiku

When Dragons Make Love:  A Haiku


When dragons make love
thunder roars and lightnings flash
hail stones hail new birth

Haiku About Marshall McLuhan For His 114th Birthday Today

Haiku About Marshall McLuhan (For His 114th Birthday Today)



View TV and Net
medium is the message
global village Hell

On Don Quixote, Foolishness and Christ

On Don Quixote, Foolishness and Christ

I was a boy at a public speaking competition
the prize: a trip to visit the UN in New York City
but I didn't win
I came in second
so no trip to the Big Apple for me
just a week at a summer camp in the Alberta Rockies
My uncle tried to cheer me up by saying the truly great orators of Roman history often started out winning 2nd in public speaking competitions in their youth
Those who won first were usually devoid of original ideas and won by singing praises and kissing the ass of the current status quo in Rome
They quickly went into obscurity and were forgotten in the annals of history
Those who won second were brilliant speakers who couldn't be ignored but yet their original ideas frightened the competition judges so they were awarded runner up rather than the big prize
My uncle's words did cheer me up
but what I remember most about the competition was the event's guest adult speaker
an ordained minister in the United Church of Canada
who chose as his topic Cervantes' Don Quixote
The minister mentioned that in writing Don Quixote,
Cervantes' purpose was to mock ideas of knightly chivalry
That chivalry was an idea from long ago
only kept alive in novels
and those who tried to live by such ideas were foolish
and ended up being made fools of like Don Quixote
But the minister said that in reading Don Quixote himself,
Cervantes' work had the opposite effect on him than the author intended
That Don Quixote was a fool, yes
but a fool in the sense that Christ was a fool
fighting for ideas that were worth fighting for
That Don Quixote suffered and was mocked
but then so Christ suffered and was mocked
that there are causes worth suffering for and being mocked for
Quixote had taken a loose woman and imagined her a lady Dulcinea del Toboso
Christ took a woman out of whom He had cast 7 devils and made her a lady Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene went from sinner to saint because Christ truly saw who she was and what she could become
And Mary became that because she was transformed by this image that Christ had for her
In the musical Man of La Mancha the loose woman that Quixote imagined a lady Dulcinea del Toboso
although cynical and scornful at first
slowly turns into that lady
because Quixote's love for her is more noble and pure than any she has ever known
By the end of the musical,
she too wishes "to dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go...
To reach the unreachable star."

And the last stanza of Don Quixote's Impossible Dream,
"And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star."

That man in the last stanza, the United Church minister concluded in his talk, was Christ.
He dreamed the impossible dream- that God could become truly human and would know the suffering and toil and pain it is to be human.
He bore with unbearable sorrow, betrayed by a friend, denied by a friend, abandoned by friends, a Crown of Thorns, beatings and mockery and a Cross unto death.
He went where the brave dared not go
The place that was foreordained for His death - in His case the city of Jerusalem ("And it came to pass, when the time was come that He should be received up, He stedfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem" -Luke 9:51).
He fought the unbeatable foe- Death- and beat him.
He reached the unreachable star- He restored fallen man -who was trapped in a Hell of his own making- to Paradise.


-A personal narrative poem
 written by Christopher
 Monday July 20th
 2015.


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Haiku About Scottish Singer Susan Boyle's 2009 Appearance On Britain's Got Talent

Haiku About Scottish Singer Susan Boyle's 2009 Appearance On Britain's Got Talent


She did dream a dream
wowing stern Simon Cowell
dreams sometimes come true

Qonzilqointec In Madrid

Qonzilqointec In Madrid


The streets of Madrid
once capital of an empire
now a living museum
to a past once golden
and a future most bleak
From the balcony of an elegant hotel
a beautiful woman stood and viewed these streets
looking resplendent in a beautiful Spanish red dress
with black laced sleeves
She was the Aztec vampire princess Qonzilqointec
spiritual goddaughter of the Aztec feathered serpent deity Quetzalcoatl
come to take her vengeance on the descendants of those people who destroyed her godfather's empire
She looked enchanting in the evening sunlight
a vampiress able to take the rays of Sol Invictus
(who generally was an Invincible Conquerer to most vampiric creatures of the night)
but thanks to a special sunblock invented for her by scientist Dr. Cadbury Rocher
she was able to see the light of dawn
as well as the dusk of twilight
and not be dispatched to the waiting shores of the River Styx
awaiting the Charon driven ferry boat of Hades
A tall blonde blue eyed man suddenly stood next to her on the balcony
and gently placed his hand on hers
She looked at him
Dracul Van Helsing
Canadian vampire hunter
who had driven a stake through the heart of many a vampire
but if you were a Vampiress
or at least a beautiful Vampiress
the stake through the heart was only metaphorical
for Dracul Van Helsing had the same effect on beautiful near-immortal vampiresses
as James Bond had on beautiful mortal women
and the result was always a meeting of arms, legs and lips in one enchantingly ocean swirling ode to Eros and Aphrodite
Said she, I thought you had dropped off the face of the Earth when the world supposedly ended December 21st 2012
No, Dracul replied as he gazed at the setting sun and gazed at her glowing face, I only laid me down and rested a while and now I've rose again.
Qonzilqointec smiled a smile most sensuous, I recall you doing the same thing that night we crossed the Rio Grande of Aztec and Mayan prophecy and opened the boundaries of cosmic Aphrodite.
Dracul laughed
He remembered he and Qonzilqointec had engaged in a night of passionate love making that night of December 21st 2012
Had the world really changed as a result of that enchanted evening where man and Vampiress had become one?
The lips of Qonzilqointec and Dracul Van Helsing once again touched
a cosmic kiss of sun and moonlight
on a warm Madrid night.


-A narrative free verse erotic poem
 written by Christopher
 Sunday July 12th 2015.


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Haiku About A Weeping Butterfly

Haiku About A Weeping Butterfly


The butterfly weeps
sad spectacle moves God's heart
will send healing touch

A Candle Long Extinguished

A Candle Long Extinguished


A candle long extinguished
A rose long faded
A dinner never eaten
A long ago sunset now forgotten
A moonlit walk not taken
but a heart forever broken.

Raven of Doom: A Poem

Raven of Doom: A Poem

A raven flew down to the Temple Mount
and shrieked so long, one lost count
The time has come, the raven said, for the downfall of many kings,
as people pursue gold and silver and all such precious things
as each man's Inner Self becomes like Gollum clutching The Lord of The Rings
It flew above the Dome on the Rock,
Ye worship God? What a crock!
The al-Aqsa Mosque
is Tempest tossed
The Western Wall
contains Herod's gall
Hate has replaced love in this City of Peace that's bred much war
Open the Gates! Summon the Fates!
Cast wide open the door!
The Kraken awakes! The City quakes!
The hour has now come!
Foolish man, you'll find nowhere to run!


-A poem written by Christopher
 Tuesday July 7th 2015.

Haiku About The Hour of Yeats' Rough Beast

Haiku About The Hour of Yeats' Rough Beast

Slouching away from
Bethlehem is the rough Beast
already been born

Haiku About ISIS' Destruction of Palmyra Syria

Haiku About ISIS' Destruction of Palmyra Syria


True god of ISIS
Abaddon the Destroyer
laughs at Palmyra

Haiku About Full Moon Over Vancouver

Haiku About Full Moon Over Vancouver

Moon shines on ocean
Luna and Poseidon kiss
cosmic love reflects

Haiku About Canada Day

Haiku About Canada Day


John MacDonald's dream
one nation from sea to sea
today reality