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    A Philosophical Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 01/11/2013 - 12:25pm |


     

     
    Here's this week's heap of haikus:
     
     
     
     
     
     Sticks of patchouli,
    smouldered in her musty room,
    which incensed her mom.
     
     
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    Two tanka haikus:

    Being Defiant
    is not the same as being
    Positive. Got it?

    And being Positive does
    NOT mean you're always Happy.
     
     

    Positivity
    is about context, and not
    about suppressing

    negative things in your Life.
    Don't defy that which teaches.
     
     
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    A curious mind,
    some spirited pondering ...
    Voila, new insights.
     
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    She no longer cares
    if she impresses others,
    she just likes to SING!
     
     
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    What is on your mind,
    the weight of the world … or the
    lightness of being?
     
     
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    In an oblong tin,
    he kept his oolong tea, which,
    steeped too long's, too strong.
     
     
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    Comfy and cozy
    and wrapped in a patchwork quilt
    she sipped some hot soup.
     
     
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     We both know that she
    is fishing for compliments …
    (Get me off the hook.)
     
     
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     It’s often said that
    mischief stalks the mundane to
    make it funnier.
     
     
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     Badly scraped knuckles
    were all that he had to show
    from 'winning' the fight.
     
     
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     Flecks of peeling paint,
    pepper the cement floor near
    his daddy's dinghy.
     
     
     
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    tanka haiku:  Why do you suppose
    we have physical limits? …
    To teach us patience.

     

    ( Also, to give us something
    that we can complain about. )

     

     

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    Near shallow shoals,
    sallow souls in hollow holes
    scream at scheming scum.
     
     
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     He felt so awkward
    in a glittering ballroom
    with his two left feet.
     
     
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     He tried to argue,
    such small obligations should
    only count as one ...
     
     
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     She spoke soberly:
    "Though he may surrender, he
    won't admit defeat."
     
     
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     Some baseball cards were
    clothes-pinned to the spokes of my
    bike's wheels. I was cool!
     
     
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    tanka haiku: Patterned wallpaper,
    pale blue linoleum and
    a wooden table.

    I watch my dad make coffee
    in my kitchen memories ...
     
     
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    Red-headed co-eds ...
    Ragtime on old radios ...
    Remnants of past lives.
     
     
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     Rooting through garbage;
    not the same as feeling you
    are down in the dumps.
     
     
     
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     Through leafless treetops,
    which sway from the winter winds,
    I glimpse flags flying!
     
     
     
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    "When I was younger",
    precedes a reminiscence
    which ends happily ...
     
     
     
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    She recalls fondly
    how one rainy afternoon
    they 'shared' an awning.
     
     
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    "When I was younger",
    precedes a reminiscence
    which ends happily ...
     
     
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    According to Ancestry.com, John Locke is my 2nd cousin, 11 times removed.
    This is a pretty funny video explaining his contributions  ...  I just wish I had known this when I was in school,  so I could have impressed some girls or something.
     

     

    Comments

     

    Tonight, on the access-a-ride trip going home from work, I had a nice conversation with a young woman.  She taught me a 'new' word: "Palimpsest."  Naturally, I had to try to use it in a haiku:

    haiku: When looking up 
    Archimedes Palimpsest,
    read between the lines.

     

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest

     


     


    by MrSmith1 on Fri, 01/11/2013 - 9:14pm

    I did not wish to be the first commenter; you always make fun of me. hahahahah

    HERE IT IS:

    I think and therefore

    I prognosticate too much

    Time is on my hands

     

    I used to be more

    I used to be more useful

    I used to before

     

    I use to before

    I used to contribute more

    Now I obfuscate

    I wish I were more

    Just as I was once before

    Not happly after

     

    I attempt to write

    To demonstrate some insight

    Never get it right

     

    The end is so near

    All sins will soon disappear

    Louie, you will die

    the end

    I have no idea what this means!

    hahahaha


    by Richard Day on Sat, 01/12/2013 - 4:39am

    Aw heck, DD, I'm not making fun of you, I'm sharing some laughs with you.

     

     

    "I think and therefore

    I prognosticate too much

    Time is on my hands"

     

    This is wonderful stuff.  

    Thanks for being the #1 comment person once again.  Think of this way, you are the official instigator of commentary.

     

    When I'm reluctant
    to offer opinions, it's 
    cuz I think, I Kant.

     

     

     

     


    by MrSmith1 on Sat, 01/12/2013 - 6:53am