A few short ones:
HAIKU
My room is silent
Knocking round the house downstairs
Your October cough
(by me!)
THINK THAT YOU’RE GLIDING
Think that you’re gliding out from the face of a cliff
like an eagle. Think you’re walking
like a tiger walks by himself in the forest.
You’re most handsome when you’re after food.
— Rumi
Translated by Coleman Barks (thanks to Such Stuff )
THE OLD AUTOMAT ON 23RD STREET
I wandered into the automat
Wearing a kind of religious hat
The meatballs were round
And the pancakes were flat
I asked G_d in heaven
To keep it like that
– Leonard Cohen
THE SWEETEST LITTLE SONG
You go your way
I’ll go your way too
– Leonard Cohen
very fine haiku norman, and i love that last cohen one 🙂