The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Year-End Guest-haiku-ers at the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 12/28/2012 - 1:56pm |

     

    Instead of my usual weekly heap of haikus, I thought I'd let this week be mostly a look back at the past year's haikus written by other dagbloggers in their comments to my postings.  At the very end, I'll include a few of my own from the past year. 

     

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    Browsing the haikus

    a sudden glint of laughter

    comes as a surprise.

     

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    IT'S COLD WAY DOWN THERE, I MEAN IT'S CRAZY COLD WAY DOWN THERE

    By Richard Day on Wed, 12/12/2012 - 6:40pm |

     

    PEACE

     

    If its peace you find in dyin...

    And when dyin time is near...

    And when I die

    And when I'm gone

    There'll be one child born

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    SEVEN DAYS IN DISARRAY

    By Richard Day on Tue, 11/13/2012 - 7:59pm |

    Seven Days in May

     

    NARRATOR:

    Democracy can be a fragile thing.

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    A Wintery Friday at the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 11/09/2012 - 1:25pm |

     

    Here's this week's heap of haikus:
     
     
    An old jelly bean
    found in my jacket pocket
    still tastes pretty good.
     
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    The message I'm glad I didn't have to send

    By MrSmith1 on Thu, 11/08/2012 - 1:19pm |
     
    If Tuesday's election had gone the other way, this might have been sent out on Wednesday:
     
     
     
    Well, my friends, now that Mitt Romney has won, it's time to give up and get
     
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    A Post-Storm Friday afternoon at the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 11/02/2012 - 4:54pm |

     

     

    Here’s this week’s heap of haikus:

     

    (My best friend, and fellow haiku-writer, David found this.  The parents of a young boy in a wheelchair created a unique Halloween costume for him.)

    (David's haiku is in bold italics.)

     

    A very special Halloween outfit ...

     

    Costume-Ku:


    There's hope for the world
    When parents use their love with
    Creativity.

     

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    You Write The Punchline! ...

    By MrSmith1 on Tue, 10/16/2012 - 5:38pm |

     

    Choose any or all of the following set-ups and then ...

     

    YOU WRITE THE PUNCHLINE!

     

    1) Paul Ryan walks into a soup kitchen ...

    2) Mitt Romney just released his tax returns and ...

    3) How many Republicans does it take to voucherize your grandmother?

    4) A priest, a rabbi and Mitt Romney were playing golf ...

    5) At the Pearly Gates, Big Bird meets St. Peter.  St. Peter says ... 

     

    examples:  Paul Ryan walks into a soup kitchen ... and privatizes the soup.

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    Friday on Vacation with the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 10/12/2012 - 8:30pm |

     

    Here's this week's heap of haikus:

    (I'm on vacation this week, so there are a few "best of" haikus thrown in to round out the heap ... so to speak.

     

    Skies with quiet clouds,
    the boardwalk sparsely peopled,
    old folks lost in thought.

     

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    Mechanized milk maids,

    are a sure sign of progress,

    to all but the cows.

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    A Friday Afternoon's Ride on the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 10/05/2012 - 10:25am |

     

     

    Here's this week's heap of haikus:

     

     

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    Sloppy Joe's (Original Recipe)

    By trkingmomoe on Thu, 10/04/2012 - 1:19pm |

     

    I have a neighbor who is on disability, actually I have lots of neighbors on assistance, came dragging a large box of bread and sandwich rolls over to my trailer. I am in the habit of taking leftovers to neighbors that I think will eat them instead of seeing the leftovers languish in my refrigerator to be tossed out. This neighbor is on a gluten free diet and last month our local grocery decided to get rid of gluten free baking mixes. The markdown was extremely low. Baking mixes for gluten free breads and cakes are very expensive. I did a quick inventory in my mind as to what I had at home in the freezer so I could figure out how much of the bargains I could get for her.

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