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I’m sorry to burst your hope bubble, but you can’t write a genuine Japanese haiku in English, even if you slavishly follow the 5-7-5 rule ..
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We
prepared holes for rats to climb into
and
baited them with promises of food,
and
they were fooled, and now, someone
..
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Flowers
named for their craving;
these
flowers crave the sun.
I
planted one, maybe two
or
three, now a host h..
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***
Osmosis
is overrated
by
the cognoscenti
who
practice Yogi
Berra-like,
fumbling
and
stumbling diction
in
their sl..
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***
As
we age we regress
become
more
of
who we were
since
birth.
My darling
has
become the hick
she
always was befo..
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This
is the world I was born for,
here
in this place of silence,
listening
for the quiet rhythms
of
diction and syntax..
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haiku
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They
flit about as flashes of yellow,
they
sit and pick for seeds, so go
the
golden days of cone flower finches.
..
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***
Out
here,
in
the handle of the rectangle,
far
from the hazy reflections
of
the cities’ bright lives; at ni..
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***
I
gave up on the thrill of eating meat
when
eating meat threatened to kill me.
My
cholesterol level had rocketed..
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