Category: nature
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Murder she wrote
Gloomy overcast morning, you daydream Angela Langsbury walking her dog in the park across the street. She calls out and waves. You call back frantically you are too young to die and to stay on her side of the street. As she walks away; you call out, “…and don’t forget to scoop,” rise from your…
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Dog chases tail
9 am on a November Sunday feels like 10 am Daylight Savings Time hibernates for the winter 25 hour day and I still can’t catch my tail 11-6-22
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Nicole’s one night stand
rain came knocking on windows in the darkness bending trees, tossing limbs in the street shaking the last gold from trees briefly floating on water until it disappears 11-11-22
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Hoosier in the land of cotton haiku
nip in morning air thoughts of home six states away close as memories 11-13-22
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Brrrr
While she sleeps You catch up on messages and communications with friends, Prepare the coffee pot And count out your vitamins for the morning The bottom of your computer screen says 4:04 am, 35 and clear You didn’t move South for this 11-14-22
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autumn haiku
my Dad’s grey hat waits on a hook behind the door to keep cold at bay 11-14-22
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Tanka for a drizzly morning
up early reading fresh coffee in the next room peanut butter toast need to get up from my chair before I fall back asleep
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Night’s curtain
at night you write poems with ink of light etching ancient truths on night’s curtain the white hot pen does not sear your fingers in the morning words melt away in sunlight you try to remember what is written a bright stylus pressing against the night your only memory 8-9-25
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haiku of the leaf
caught in the moment between release from the twig and tumbling to ground 8-8-25
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