Category: haiku
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lazy day haiku
windy afternoon silent shadows dance on blinds leaf hands up applause 4-21-21
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Haiku Meditation on a Sunday Morning Sitting by the Remains of Last Night’s Fire with a Cup of Coffee Watching Birds in the Park Across the Street at Sunrise
1) Sunday morning shoes canvas loafers don’t need shined Dad would not approve 2) ash remembers fire when flames don’t stay the night trees filter morning 3) crow stares with one eye red birds forage for breakfast jays flash blue on green 4-18-21
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haiku while sweeping pollen from the porch
on a screened porch silllooking out, a dead wasp lieslonging for freedom 4-10-21
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haiku while sitting outside sipping ginger/mint tea
a breeze blew a pen and a pad off of a ledge they lay uncomposed 4-1-21
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pre-dawn haikus
frogs trilled mating songs slowly, the trees went silent one still calls at dawn waiting in the dark watching neighbors’ lights come on possum waddles home birds announce spring break tree blossoms await first light school bus squeaks, not me
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morning haikus at daughter’s kitchen table
chickens cluck in coop cat cries at granddaughter’s door cuddles her awake in an urban zoo kindness is learned behavior bunny waits its turn coffee cuts the chill long shadows on woody ground trees and sun collage 3-12-21
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haiku about busy work
middle school EnglishSatanic pedagogytorture by crossword 3-5-21
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haiku for Saint Anthony
bright green tennis ball floats alone at water’s edge lost without a court 3-4-21 *Saint Anthony: saint of lost items, travelers, and the poor
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early morning haiku
did you just write this, if you didn’t take a photo? why leave it to chance? 3-2-21
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haikus for false Spring
sunny Sunday sun equinox dress rehearsal spring not far away sharp tongued blue jay sits resplendent in tree line beauty is a beast sun worshippers bask bodies lie along the shore turtles seeking warm three red and one brown two cardinals do not care two reds will be sad lengthening daylight slow tilt towards equator…
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