Category: haiku
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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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deer haiku
at noon, city deerrealize daylight is too brightflee into dark woods 2-27-21
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Camelia haiku
Camelia blooms red Petals bleed upon cold ground I mourn the blossoms 2-25-21
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haiku at 8 degrees fahrenheit
from inside the house morning sun on snow welcomes caution, looks deceive 2-19-21
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