Some OA Haikus and Senryus

[Stevan Harnad]

Here are twenty-seven OA Haikus and Senryus (only thirteen of them a strict 5 + 7 + 5 = 17), the rest increasingly minimalist.

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17:

scribbler and scholar

behind the self-same barrier

one unwillingly

the work of others

easier for me to steal

than donate my own

tithes to help cure plague

instead they're helping tradesmen

to peddle their wares

via eyes and minds

its path to noble laurels

my work firewalled

skies above all clear

cosmonauts still unembarked

worried flight's not cleared

fingertips so quick

stroke keys to boycott others

not to free their own

golden sun afar

blinds us to greener vistas

open to our view

yearning for freedom

we do not reach out for it

though its in our grasp

set it free at last

no lets fuss instead about

costs rights wrath and gold

why lord gautama

left india for china

keeps our fingers still

the elean sage

found no way to cross the room

we too paralyzed

what the tortoise asked

achilles to try in vain

we now must mandate

scholars all are monks

do monks have buddha nature?

answer still is mu

13:

give-away findings

free for all

no I want my cut

"roses red violets blue"

stays unread

till paid by you

eureka

see what I have found

first shell out to look

ideas doomed

to stillbirth

toll-booths loom ahead

11:

scholars' spring

skyward glance

trade winds gathering

new era

thoughts at long last free

pay to view

9:

fruits of IQ

unlike haiku

free

free at last

not so fast

toll-gates last

along the road

to Stockholm

toll-booths

8:

like speech

text if metered

lose/lose

7:

words fleet

script perdures

bits blocked

ideas

born free

enchained

me to you

no

first pay him

charity

pricily

sold