The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    A Delightfully Sunny Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Here's this week's heap of haikus:

     

     


    On "Project Flyway"
    Heidi Klum's kids judge feathered
    faux-pas of Fashion.

     

    (Photo courtesy of Kristina Rebelo)


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    Blue beach umbrellas
    flutter in the breeze, casting
    their sandy shadows.

     

    (Photo courtesy of Kristina Rebelo)


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    A hole in the clouds,
    a bright sunbeam shining through ...
    We felt touched by God.

     

    (Photo courtesy of Kristina Rebelo)

     

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    A hawk contemplates
    the 'rodent situation' ...
    then swiftly, it strikes.

     

    (Photo courtesy of Kristina Rebelo)
     

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    When you do things right,
    you don't have to do what's left.

    What's left is alright.

     

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    He has a smart phone,
    but a dumb toaster oven ...
    so things evened out.

     

     

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    Some flowering quince
    brighten up my room, while they
    tease my sinuses.

     


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    Like a garden rose,
    the nurse showed up in the Spring ...
    and pricked my finger.

     

     

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    His leather briefcase
    was left in a Greek diner
    on Twenty-third Street.

     

     

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    Eighteen coffee cups
    clutter up the countertop;
    broken dishwasher.

     

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    I took a taxi
    which took forever and all
    my folding money.


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    As the dusk draws nigh
    chickens roost and dogs bark at
    approaching shadows.

     

     

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    In a quiet room,
    far from all the excitement,
    plans were being made.

     

     

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    I'm down on my knees.
    Tell me what I want to hear ...
    How do I get up?

     


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    Don't feel discouraged
    when your back's against the wall ...
    you've found some support.

     


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    Wishing for rainbows
    is fine, but refracting light
    through a prism ... works.

     


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    As we left the church,
    Birds began to sing. Angels
    whispered, 'Life goes on.'


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    The young schoolgirl's crush
    waited 'neath the boardwalk with
    a cold grape soda.


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    The gist of each jest,
    (as each guest might have guessed), was
    at the host's behest.


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    In the marbled foyer,
    an arrangement of jasmines
    offers us welcome.

     


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    Thoughts run through my head,
    in-congruent images
    chasing after them.


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    They both were nervous ...
    Its been so long ... Her heart raced.
    He HAD to kiss her.

     

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    His leather briefcase
    was left in a Greek diner
    on Twenty-third Street.

     

     
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    In a quiet rain,
    his thoughts ricocheted about,
    dampening his mood.
     
     
     
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    His tortured soul found
    small measures of contentment
    just beyond its reach.


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    On a shady lane,
    there lived a lonely girl that
    dreamed of love fulfilled.

     


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    Like sails on schooners,
    the bed sheets billowed, still pinned
    to the old clothesline.

     


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    Ev'ry Flea Market
    has some folks who'll wrestle you
    for Fiestaware.

     

     

     


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    He's got vertigo,
    you can bet he's sure to go ...
    falling down the stairs.
     
     


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    Marble-sized hailstones
    bounced off air conditioners
    in the East Village.


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    In the afterglow
    we must reflect and embrace
    the change the flames wrought.

     


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    So let us slumber,
    for we have come a long way
    and have eaten lunch.


     

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    More next week.

    Comments

    Too bad his record

    belied the liberal heart

    he wore on his sleeve.


     Nicely put, barefooted!

     

    His heart on his sleeve,

    led many folks to believe

    he always wore shirts.

     

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    A Liberal heart

    inside a Neo-Con mind

    does no good at all.
     


    Oh the pix are back again.

    The real beginning

    Of my  day are the sounds made

    By  the  lonely loons

    They sound so  loony

    And  yet they wake me early

    They sound; so lonely

    I don't think they are

    lonely, just not recorded

    I love those loons

    That is all I got

    the end


    A loon on a lake

    is well and good, but I still

    like my lunacy ...