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    An Unseasonably Warm Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

     

     

     

    Here's this week's heap of haikus:

     

     

    tanka haiku: When snow turns to ice,
    and bitter winds sting my face,
    I think of baseball.

    For Spring is getting nearer
    and Umps soon will shout, "Play Ball!"


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    tanka haiku: All men were once boys,
    All leaders, once followers,
    Wise men, ignorant.

        Neither resent nor regret,
        all will soon enough be frail.


     


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    As a tree reaches
    for the sky, a potato
    embraces the earth.


     


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    Silhouettes of trees
    turn my river view into
    a jigsaw puzzle.


     


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    Dimly lit streetlamps
    dot a snowy path that winds
    through Riverside Park.

     



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    Troubles never last.
    Like cream poured into coffee,
    they'll soon swirl away.


     


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    Deep in the forest,
    patches of stippled sunlight,
    warm a leaf-strewn trail.


     


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    When she walked away,
    I brought my hands to my face,
    to hold in my dreams.


     

     


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    Twilight, cold and wet ...
    To ease the chill in my bones,
    a savory bisque!



     


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    What's more exhausting
    than having unlimited
    opportunities?


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    Back from the future?
    Aerodynamic designs.
    Gone like a cool breeze.

     

     

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    The future was then,
    but now the future is a
    present from the past.


    ( Ivo Pannaggi, Speeding Train (Treno in corsa), 1922 )

     

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    Don't resist urges
    from impulse or desire ...
    they will point the way.

     

     

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    Lit by sunlight, a
    glowing landscape made out of
    bits of colored glass.


    (  Happy would-have-been 166th birthday to Louis Comfort Tiffany. )

     

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    Would you choose to go
    relive your youth, if you could
    not change anything?




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    The out of season
    strawberries sit tastelessly
    on her kitchen table.



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    Winter snow again,
    will blow again, your car will
    need a tow again.




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    tanka haiku: In our solitude,
    do we not all wonder if
    we have moved the world?

    It is at such times, we must
    remember days like today.



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    He was raised by wolves
    But tutored by nightingales
    So he howls in key.



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     Implausible schemes
     might come to fruition ... IF
     the timing is right.


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    When my mind escapes
    from thoughts that weigh it down, I
    soar above the clouds.


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    Eighteen coffee cups
    cluttering the counter-top;
    broken dishwasher.

     

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    How her heart would ache
    in the middle of the night ...
    yet, be healed by dawn.


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     A wellspring of joy,
    lies within each of our hearts,
    waiting to be tapped.


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    Comments

    Oh delightful!

    I get stuck in this weather up here in the middle of nowhere. Weather for chrissakes!

    Weather shall always be with us. hahahaha

    It is ten degrees out there with 20 mile an hour winds. And this has gone on since Dec 9?  If it is not -20F, it is -20F windchill! Damn

    A Cabin Fever

    Has really Enveloped me

    I have been stuck here

    Wellsprings are not here

    Depression attaches now

    I HAVE TO GET OUT!

    hahahahahaha

    My keyboard now works

    I am free to write my 'works'

    About nothingness.

    hahahaha

    I do love coffee

    I do play with recipes

    Let's have another

    the end

    for now

     

     


    Thanks, DD. 

     

    With cabin fever,

    cedar doctor, otherwise

    you'll pine for a cure.


    I will take the tour,

    Experience it again,

    Just the way it was.


    Nice one, moat.

     

    I would do it too.

    But you'd be surprised at how

    many folks would not,

     

      

     

     


    IT IS GOING TO BE +28F Degrees tomorrow.

    A total reversal of what has been predicted.

    I mean it was 25 below last nite! hahahahah

    I had no idea where to put this bit of trivia!

    Forgive me! 

    hahahahahah

    I can go out now

    Well now is tomorrow's hope

    Forget the wind this time

    After noon Friday

    There is no wind chill alert

    I shall exit soon

    hahahahahh

    11 hours of

    Sunlight changes everything

    The sun just rules.

    hahahahah

    I dunno, this is a big deal to me anyway

    the end


    Temper'tures rising!

    Sunlight changes everything,

    Winter defeated!

     

    Hope for tomorrow;

    I'll breathe fresh air again!  The

    sun will warm my face!


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