fugitive pleasures

fugitive pleasures
flushed out from hiding spaces
the deeper you go

Christmas haikus Japan-style

Merry Christmas from Japan! Here are two Christmas-themed haikus featuring a Japanese twist.

ラブホテル
空き部屋はない
クリスマス

love hotel
no vacancy
Christmas

クリスマス
お腹がいっぱい
ケンタッキー

Christmas
full stomach
KFC

Notes: On Christmas Day, the "no vacancy" signs at love hotels are usually lit up. KFC is a popular Christmas dinner menu item in Japan.

Second note: Thirty minutes later it strikes me that the love hotel haiku works better flipped around as:

クリスマス
空き部屋はない
ラブホテル

Christmas
no vacancy
love hotel

connect the dots

I connect the dots
on your skin, I write my name
with constellations

Grope Visit?

Japan is a treasure trove of unusual English usage that brings a smile to my face, and I'm quite sure I've made more than a few Japanese people smile after I've mangled their language as well. Just do a search for "Japlish" or "Engrish" for more examples. This one I ran across at a museum and thought it somewhat appropriate here.

パンティどこ？

パンティどこ？
ママさんそれは
フリーショー？

where are your panties?
Mama-san, is this a
free show?

Note: Mama-san is the friendly term for the proprietress of a night club, in this case.

slurping your ramen

sounds of seduction
spring from everything you do
slurping your ramen

weekend planning

planning our weekend
bookmarking Kama Sutra
ran out of Post-Its

Arashiyama day and night

Here's some photos I took of the bamboo groves at Arashiyama, the inspiration for a haiku a few weeks back. The scenic spots of Arashiyama were lit up for a night illumination festival and made for a snapshot-happy evening - about 300 shots including retakes due to not bringing a tripod and more camera shakes with the cold weather.

perfect fit

lovers come and go
everyone a puzzle piece
seeking perfect fit

oasis is you

I know you by taste
this place salt lick this place spring
oasis is you

the heart

the size of a fist
the weight of the world
the human heart

winter weekend

winter weekend dawns
all that I need to stay warm
down duvet and you

warm loaves

naked surrender
continues in morning light
the smell of warm loaves

love you as is

morning breath, bedhead,
flaws and all you're beautiful
I'll love you as is

secrets bloom

find you in the night
my hands take your pleasure's shape
secrets bloom by touch

your breath animates

your breath animates
your kisses my oxygen
empty vessel fills

exam distraction

So I was taking the Japanese Language Proficiency Test today and wrote out the following on the lunch break to remember the morning's events a bit better:

exam distraction
tough proctor gets sexier
kicking out cheaters

And no, I won't be writing haikus in Japanese anytime soon.

tunneling mouths

didn't bruise easily
til our tunneling mouths met
mark me as you please

all you leave behind

sheets still warm from you
paradise in your absence
all you leave behind

never enough

i swallow mouthfuls
of you, never enough yet
never more alive

too early

rush hour beauty
stirs sleepy salaryman
"too early for dreams"

we are born from stars

we are born from stars
our hearts long to burn again
that is why we love

rush hour dreamer

salaryman stirs
fugitive touch sends frissons
rush hour dreamer

salaryman dreams

fugitive touch from
strangers fuels fantasies
salaryman dreams

distractions

why do distractions
increase - exponentially -
as deadlines approach?

unfurl limbs

slough off chrysalis,
unfurl limbs, under my wing
take to sky again

lost

lost in each other
pleasures upturned and lines blurred
what do we do next?

lost

lost in each other
pleasures upturned and lines blurred
where do we go next?

let's get lost

down hidden paths where
pleasures unrushed and lines blurred
let's get lost