The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Wet and Soggy Fridays at the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 10/19/2012 - 1:49pm |


     

     
     
    Here's this week's heap of haikus:
     
     
     

    Ezekial saw
    the wheel ... in the middle of
    the seashore boardwalk.
     
     
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    Down a country road,
    he let his horse lead him home
    and his mind wander.
     
     
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     "As free as a bird"
    assumes that a bird can fly ...
    What about penguins?!
     
     
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    The look in her eyes
    was enough to melt his heart ...
    and his tupperware.
     
     
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     trudging slowly on,
    I get to the pharmacy
    just as it's closing.
     
     
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    If you pose questions
    but don't really want answers ...
    your goal's not knowledge.
     
     
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    On a moonlit night,
    in a cottage near the dell,
    at last, he knew love!
     
     
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    Wide awake last night?
    You ran away in my dreams.
    Come hug me and sleep.
     
     
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    A world of traitors
    can be found if you look for it,
    so too, worlds of love.
     
     
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     No sadness today
    over inclement weather ...
    Friday trumps rainstorms.
     
     
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    Will our lives collapse
    into some financial mess?
    Sure ... Ya happy now?
     
     
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    Clearly embarrassed,
    The teen excuses herself
    and runs from the room.
     
     
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    Strolling through the park,
    I can feel my focus shift.
    Nature affects me.
     
     
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    Take a chance, today.
    Put your fears aside and LEAP
    into the unknown.
     
     
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    When you have a lot
    that’s on your mind, let your day
    begin quietly.
     
     
     
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    Walking through meadows
    just before sunrise, is worth
    some wet trouser cuffs.
     
     
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    I met a rabbit
    this morn, in a dew-y glen,
    I nodded, he hopped.
     
     
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    Anguished and in pain,
    she never thought that her life
    would end up like this.
     
     
     
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    Pies on windowsills
    send aromas wafting through
    the nearby schoolyard.
     
     
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    Ten, Jack, Queen, King … Four.
    (sigh) It’s time to leave the game.
    Poker can be cruel.
     
     
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    Coral begonias
    offer a quiet contrast
    to those yellow mums.
     
     
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    She has a great smile;
    it can send him to the moon.
    So ... he makes her laugh.
     
     
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