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    Frivolous Friday Afternoons at the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 1:26pm |

     

     
    Here's this week's heap of haikus:
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Near the temple of
    Dionysus, peonies
    plead for one more chance.
     
     
     
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    Does your past exist
    in black, white and shades of grey?
    I didn't think so ... 
     
    (Video is some rare color movies of London in 1927)
     
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    Lord hear my prayer;
    Let Pete Seeger sing his songs
    All the live long day.
     
     
     
    (Happy 94th birthday to a national treasure, Pete Seeger)
     
     
     
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    On the First of May,
    (Hurray, Hurray!) I think that
    Spring is here to stay ...
     
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    Response from my friend, Jennifer:
     
    On the First of May,
    In a Colorado way...
    we have a snow day!
     
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    My response:
     
    A Spring-time snow can
    be a blessing, enabling
    floral expressing ...
     
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    Jennifer's response:
     
    I paint with colors
    planted in the form of seeds
    floral expression!
     
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    My response:
     
    Thank God for good chairs,
    Arthritic artists can't do
    floor-al expressions.
     
     
     
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    To say it's snowing
    in Minnesota is like ...
    "It's wet" in Venice.
     
     
     
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    tanka haiku:
     
    When you're sailing and
    you strike a reef, don't crack open
    an aperitif.

       That will only cause you grief;
       you'll be shaking like a leaf.
     
     
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    Spider on the wall,
    brings my house good fortune and
    happiness for all.
     
     
     
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     In Autumn's dotage,
    death's a gentler tiger,
    greeted with a smile.
     
     
     
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    Spring has just arrived,
    Earth's re-born, and we rejoice.
    Turn, turn, turned once more.
     
     
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     The coming of Spring ...
    HAI-ku! haiii-KOOO! (sniff) ... (sniff) ... ... (sniff)
    Damned allegories!
     
     
     
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    Poems and babies
    can make fools out of us all ...
    "Ooooo, haiku-cheee-kooooo!"
     
     
     
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    Cyber-ku:
     
    Intertwined with an
    interactive internet ...
    sought by Interpol
     
     
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    Before the beguine's
    begun to beguile, betray
    that beignet, Benny.
     
     
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    Could be good, could be bad-ku:
     
     
    Manhattan's skyline;
    a powerful reminder
    of 'what's possible.'
     
     
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    tanka haiku:

     

    Our thoughts have blended,
    into philosophical
    smoothies. We're zombies.

       How do brand new thoughts emerge
       when old thoughts refuse to die?

     
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    The stack of papers,
    suddenly flew ’round the room!
    Please!!  Close the window!!
     
     
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    Brisk rainy mornings,
    ameliorate gloom and
    cleanse nature’s palate.
     
     
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    Broken hearts are healed,
    by the caring of true friends.
    Warmth triggers mending.
     
     
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    Thinking about you,
    Hoping you found happiness,
    Sad we had to part.
     
     
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    The problem, it seems
    is my old mirror. It needs
    newer reflections.
     
     
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    This is going to be awesome.  We just booked Regina DeCicco, recently named the funniest female comic in New York! 
     

    Comments

    OH just delightful.

    I love the 'discussion' or tete-a-tete! ha

    It just snowed a few flakes today.

    Not serious but you had better wear a hoody outside your sweater!

    No the snow is gone here, finally but my daughter still could see some in the cities today from their blizzard last nite.

    Oh and I would pray for new reflections in my goddamn mirror. hahahahaha

    I will have to return to this later!


    by Richard Day on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 4:32pm