Warp Speed

Procrastinator,
Putting things off for so long,
Must do at warp speed.

Cabotage

I now do wonder,
Does my selling stuff online,
Count as cabotage.

Ramify

I fear my topics,
Have become repetitive.
I must ramify.

Adust

I am a poor cook.
Distracted too easily,
Food is left adust.

Cook's Tour

It is finals time.
I hope my Cook's tour of,
The books is enough.

Viridity

My viridity,
I may be showing by faith,
In others' goodness.

Bemuse

Each day at my work,
The children do bemuse me.
It is delightful.

Parietal

I feel fortunate,
My parietal living,
Had few restrictions.

Monocracy

Presidents at times,
Must wish for monocracy.
I however do not.

Tabula rasa

Blank pages present,
Daunting tabula rasa.
Difficult to fill.

Flytings

I think all debates,
Should take the form of flytings.
More entertaining.

Susurrous

I will be troubled,
By a susurrous classroom,
For presentation.

Simon-pure

Why do some insist,
Candidates be simon-pure.
Seeking the closed mind.

Halcyon

I sometimes wonder,
If my halcyon days are,
Past or still to come.

Napery

Perhaps I do lack,
Manner but I do not have,
Use for napery.

Evince

I hope that my work,
This semester will evince,
Growing competence.

Picayune

Politics today,
About picayune concerns.
Nothing of import.

Lucrative

My chosen career,
Is not a lucrative one.
Can be rewarding.

Sternutation

Pollen in the air,
Provokes such sternutation,
To be exhausting.

Eldritch

I am often drawn,
To stories that are called,
Eldritch in nature.

Gloze

Some people can be,
Far too quick to gloze over,
Important problems.

Preposterous

Preposterous are,
The lengths some people will go,
For a bit of fame.

Commensal

I do not really,
Have commensal relations.
Not social eater

Intransigent

It is baffling,
How politicians can be,
So intransigent.

Numinous

I find the process,
Of creative endeavors,
To be numinous.

Inordinate

An inordinate,
Amount of my e-mail is,
Nothing more than junk.

Pescatarian

I do not like fish,
No pescatarian I.
I am a beef fan.

Winnow

Many classes that,
I still have to take but I,
Must winnow to two.

Borne

I hope that one day,
I can be borne by rocket,
Out into the stars.

Navel-Gazing

I can be guilty,
Of navel-gazing at times.
Thinking not acting.

Estival

April just begun,
And already I'm making,
My estival plans.

Skosh

I often wish that,
I had a skosh more time to,
Finish my homework.

Licit

Why is it that the,
Licit pleasures of the world,
Are so much less fun.

Nemesis

I frequently find,
My worst instincts can make me,
My own nemesis.

Paragon

I have such high hopes,
Of finding a paragon,
Of film this summer.

Belle Epoque

My writing output,
Has lately been increasing.
My own belle epoque.

Aggrandize

Watching candidates,
Do they mean well or mean to,
Aggrandize themselves.

Yeasty

I can at some times,
Be described a bit yeasty.
Concerned with trifles.

Embargo

How effective is,
An embargo in changing,
A nation's conduct?

Inselberg

The stone in the field,
Must seem an inselberg from,
The ant perspective.

Burgeon

I certainly hope,
My skills will burgeon thanks to,
All my time in class.

Impious

No great believer,
In the existence of God.
I am impious.

Turbid

I try to be clear,
When I must explain myself.
But can be turbid.

Vernal

This year it feels like,
Vernal weather was bypassed.
It feels like summer.

Slough

Insecurities,
The enemies of all growth.
Must slough them all off.

Neoteric

This habit of mine,
Neoteric though it is,
Has quite taken root.

Gloaming

Some prefer sunrise,
But I find that too early.
I like the gloaming.

Diffident

My greatest weakness,
A tendancy to be too,
Diffident in life.

Sui Generis

I am not so full,
Of ego to think myself,
Sui generis.

Lacunae

I take great pleasure,
Filling mental lacunae.
Love to learn new things.

Chicane

Callers trying to,
Chicane me out of money.
Good thing I have none.

Relict

The crocodile is,
A relict of times long past.
Suited to survive.

Demulcent

The pain in my back.
I seek something demulcent,
To ease discomfort.

Trumpery

I have the habit,
Of the accumulation,
Of much trumpery.

Roman A Clef

Now I sit watching,
The filmic roman a clef,
Of Citizen Kane.

Foment

I have to wonder,
How we, among our politicians,
Can foment real change.

Wiki

A useful feature,
Of our new digital world.
Wikis everywhere.

Adventitious

In my life so far,
Many revelations have,
Been adventitious.

Hypermnesia

I cannot make claim,
To having hypermnesia.
What was I saying?

Froward

I am glad to say,
I was not a froward child.
Not one for mischief.

Spelunker

Out of the deep, dark.
No great spelunker am I,
Into my own mind.

Affable

I wish I could be,
A more affable fellow.
At ease with others.

Comestible

Re-heated pizza,
Can be quite comestible.
Maybe even good.

Hegemony

Artists from elsewhere,
Challenge our hegemony,
Over world culture.

Eristic

The candidate made,
Such eristic arguments,
Infuriating.

Sycophants

Many leaders are,
Surrounded by sycophants.
Never hearing truth.

Jacquerie

Perceived unfairness,
In the economy will,
Bring a jacquerie.

Diapause

Sleep is important.
Nightly diapause needed,
For recovery.

Rubicon

Returning to school,
I have crossed the Rubicon.
I am committed.

Encomium

Having seen the film,
The encomium of the,
Critics is deserved.

Shrive

Self-acceptance is,
The thing to shrive me of guilt,
For my past mistakes.

Malleable

As a student I,
Have become malleable.
Shaped by new learning.

Plenary

Impossible is,
Plenary education.
Learning is life-long.

Stentorian

To be assertive,
I must try to be a bit,
More stentorian.

Frowsy

I fear that my car,
Appears to be quite frowsy.
I am a car-slob.

Maieutic

When I am called on,
To teach, I like to use a,
Maieutic method.

Inkling

Addled by illness,
Had not the slightest inkling,
Who was before me.

Cloying

Sentiment is fine.
However, too much can be,
Terribly cloying.

Dally

Many things to do.
No time for me to dally.
No matter my need.

Chirography

Cursive never took.
The chirography of a,
Ten year-old have I.

Pedantic

My presentation,
Must be informative but,
Not be pedantic.

Vaunted

Organizations,
Of much vaunted quality,
Can contain weak links.

Scoured

There was a paper,
I could not find no matter,
How far I scoured.

Ebullient

Even the driest,
Subjects can be made fun by,
Ebullient teachers.

Zeitgeist

It is maddening,
Political zeitgeist of,
Petty bickering.

Funambulism

I like to show off,
The funambulism that,
I think I possess.

Anneal

I have great hope that,
My experiences will,
Anneal my courage.

Jeunesse Doree

Never have I been,
One of the jeunesse doree.
Only middle class.

Arduous

My schoolwork can be,
Quite arduous at some times,
But necessary.

Pundit

Parade of pundits,
Every Sunday morning.
Is there any point?

Vade Mecum

Elements of Style,
Writers should regard it as,
A vade mecum.

Backstairs

I am a dull man.
No backstairs details to share,
A scandal-free life.

Munificent

Munificent with,
Knowledge I frequently am.
Sometimes know-it-all.

Habeas Corpus

The word for today,
Is troublesome for haiku:
Habeas corpus.

Acquisitive

My shelves overflow.
My acquisitive nature,
Cannot be controlled.

Extremophile

An extremophile,
I definitely am not.
I enjoy comfort.

Nidus

Lady bugs crawling,
All around the house, coming,
From hidden nidus.

Sastruga

Winter has been calm.
No snow in these parts this year.
No sastruga seen.

Periphrasis

I am a word nerd.
Sometimes I can be guilty,
Of periphrasis.

Redound

It is my great hope,
That past work experience,
Will redound for good.

Troglodyte

Why do we seem to,
Want our politicians to,
Act like troglodytes.

Phlegmatic

I am not quick to,
Anger or making speeches.
I am phlegmatic.

Douceur

To turn away ire,
Of a friend, try a token,
Sent as a douceur.

Spurious

An election year.
So many speeches, so full,
Of spurious claims.

Wellerism

I am creative.
But I cannot create a,
Single Wellerism.

Deke

A clever speaker,
Can deke the opposition.
Control the debate.

Fifth Column

To express dissent,
The act of a patriot.
Not a fifth column.

Immutable

Change is a constant.
This is immutable fact.
Be prepared for it.

Inane

Are we all alone?
Is there anyone out there in,
The inane of space?

Fructify

My haiku efforts,
Are not always high quality.
Hope they fructify.

Riposte

Hostility may,
Come, but satisfaction lives,
In a strong riposte.

Collogue

Not every talk,
Is meant for everyone.
Sometimes must collogue.

Holus-Bolus

Classes start, car breaks.
New phone, job continues on.
Life holus-bolus.

Ulterior

An action might have,
An ulterior meaning.
Too much a cynic?

Didactic

My role at work is,
Often a didactic one.
Still try to have fun.

Vinaceous

I have a wardrobe,
Made up of blacks, blues, and grays.
More vinaceous hues?

King's Ransom

My education,
It can get expensive but,
Worth a king's ransom.

Omnium-gatherum

My film library,
An omnium-gatherum.
My tastes are varied.

Keelhaul

Sometimes you can feel,
Like keelhauling someone else.
Relax and forgive.

Causerie

A conversation,
Light and frothy among friends.
Time for a causerie.

Fiduciary

Payday is today.
Time to care for all matters
Fiduciary.

Note: Okay, I know fiduciary doesn't mean the same thing as financial (at least I do after reading the definition on my calendar), but this came so quickly, misuse of the day's word and all, that I couldn't bear to not use it.

Popinjay

Political Show.
Candidates nothing more than
Preening popinjays.

Ab ovo

A new year begins.
Many things to do and explore.
Will start ab ovo.

Author's Note

As a daily writing exercise, I've decided to get back to doing this, but with an added wrinkle.  I got a Word-a-Day calendar for 2012, and I will use each day's word in that day's haiku.  For one thing, this gives me a starting place each day and makes it less likely I'll drop the ball again.  It also provides a challenge to keep the exercise interesting, particularly for days with off-beat words.