The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    This Friday afternoon at the Haiku-lodeon ...

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 1:09pm |

     

     
     
     
    This week's heap of haikus:
     
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    If you see the world
    as humorless, you'll never
    understand the joke.
     
     
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     Hiding near a gulch
    waiting for the next stage coach;
    masked desperados!
     
     
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    Glancing at his watch,
    he notes it's only 2:10.
    School will NEVER end!
     
     
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    If you turn that screw,
    it's grip will tighten and bring
    two woods together.
     
     
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    Singin' Doo-Wop songs ...
    dip dip dip doo dip dip dip
    doo wah, shoop de dooo.
     
     
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    Dark side of the moon;
    where they keep the cheese ... and the
    light sensitive cows.
     
     
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    She gets lost in books,
    often losing track of time ...
    and what year it is.
     
     
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    We anxiously wait
    to become our own persons.
    How ironic we are.
     
     
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    A pink cupcake waits
    in her office cubicle,
    but she's called in 'sick.'
     
     
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     She posed awkwardly.
    Her nervousness clearly showed
    she was new to this.
     
     
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    I may meander
    through some fields and forests, but
    I'll find my way home.
     
     
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    Cynicism is
    easy, Optimism hard.
    Still, the sky is blue.
     
     
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     Remember, when you're
    tall in the saddle, your feet
    are not on the ground.
     
     
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     Blessed are those that
    never got sick, for old age
    will be a surprise.
     
     
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     There are no rules for
    coping with adversity ...
    Just keep on breathing.
     
     
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    Refract a cold light
    using a too-hot iron;
    laser, singe the blues.
     
     
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     Sunday morning strolls
    revealed a town, slow to wake,
    quietly rising.
     
     
     
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    Do you feel the world
    is here for your amusement
    or you for the world's?
     
     
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    When you see a bird
    sitting in a tree ... ever
    wonder how it's been?
     
     
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    Though fragile hearts need
    whispered blessings, they also
    need your steady hand.
     
     
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    Tanka haiku:  Sad days are ahead.
    They can not be avoided.
    We must live through them.

    We'll get to the other side,
    through faith, hope and endurance.
     
     
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    Tanka haiku:  The first day of school,
    you learn 'bout water fountains
    and bathroom passes.

    The next day, you discover
    that the two are connected.
     
     
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    Little girls next door,
    run in circles in their yard,
    playing "tag, you're it!"
     
     
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     Pass a laugh along,
    it may be just the thing that
    lifts a friend's spirit.
     
     
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    Comments

    I must render unto Smith the Dayly Line of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site given to all of him from all of me for this gem:

    If you see the world
    as humorless, you'll never
    understand the joke.
     
    Damn.
     
    And at least half the time, regardless of my mood; the sky is blue nevertheless! ha

    by Richard Day on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 11:28am

    Thanks DD.  The other day I realized that I've been doing this weekly compilation now on Dagblog for 30 weeks, so perhaps it was time to start up my own site and find a way to archive my older, pre-Dagblog haikus.

    Thanks for all the encouragement.

     

    http://www.thehaikulodeon.wordpress.com/

     


    by MrSmith1 on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 11:58am