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Three Haiku

Where sea and sky meet

                a green flash from the set sun

Lighting distant shores

 

 

In Spring my compass

                navigated the world round

Now Autumn tides ebb

 

 

In the Winter storms

                my old life invades the new

Waves crash past the strand

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Being

Decided to try a haiku today - 

 

Being; a practice

inevitable as breath,

essential effort.

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Post Traumatic Echos

moonlight tastes sour

sweat runs through bedroom sheet veins

she gives up on sleep

 

hallway footfalls

undesired sharp edges

reverberations

 

echos beat within

in discord with her heart

as hands grip at wind

 

doorknob, alive, there

embraced by her palm frantic

gasp … inhale … freedom

 

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haikustanza

Poetry mix

1.

Time goes on

The world does too

Our Nature grows and dies

Our technology expands and flies

We manifest and destroy

To make ends meet

Even with passing days

We forget about the increasing heat

Or the decreasing ice sheets

Nothing seems important

To global tyrants and corporations

But money and power

At the cost of decreasing our showers

We accept it whic...

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I'm going poem.


      Poem is where the heart is


            and the time is write.

 

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haiku

umpteen dickie-birds 
     discourse on a kitty-cat
          who basks in the lap 

 

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haiku

and comes a good tide


duly sweeps the sands perfect


not a footprint left

 

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haiku

I live by old woods
 

     and by the gurgling river:


          by these golden rules

 

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haiku

a

      s t r o l l      

            with

                 the moon


overlooking

every

fault


                                                                 the scarred, pitted face

 

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haiku

every limb shaking
I meet with apprehension
winter trees stripped bare

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haiku

no lake this evening

where ducks stand and contemplate

winter with iced moon

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haiku

only the squirells
coming down through the treetops:
they make the snow fall

 

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haiku

snow through a light pool

puts the lamp in pantomime,

night's cape is flourished

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haiku

Haiku #220

Close the door slowly
Be quiet as you’re leaving
And turn out the lights

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