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A Breezy Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

 

 

Here's this week's heap of haikus:

 

 

The ocean so vast,
and the waves so persistent ...
I'll swim tomorrow.

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A Blue-Skied Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

 

Here's this week's heap of haikus:

 

 

Woody Guthrie said
that his guitar "kills fascists."
Wish I had me one.


(Happy would-have-been 102nd birthday this week to Woody Guthrie.)

 

 

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A Star-Spangled Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

 

 

Here's this week's patriotic heap of haikus:
 

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Another Typical Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

 


 



Here's this week's heap of haikus:


 

 

A Times Square haiku quintet: 

 

The statue of George M. Cohan in Times Square before the glut overwhelmed it.

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A Laugh-filled Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

 

 



Here's this week's heap of haikus:


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Oh what sadness has
risen in me. it makes my
heart the heavier.


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Maya Angelou
told me why the caged bird sings;
How her words could soar.

 

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A Getaway Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

 

 

Here's this week's heap of haikus:

 

 

 

Lifting off from earth,
our souls climb through the clouds to
play in the cosmos.
 
 
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The moist earth gave way
to one insistent daisy,
and now, fields of them.


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