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Excellent, moat! Sure, he

MrSmith1 — Sun, 11 May 2014 03:31:06 +0000

In reply to He left what was done to see

Excellent, moat!

Sure, he let it go

to see if it would return ...

( its not been seen since.)

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Without erasing

can you ever truly start

all over again?

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He left what was done to see

moat — Sun, 11 May 2014 02:10:01 +0000

In reply to A More Than Pleasant Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

He left what was done

to see if it would return:

Testing the system.

Cutting to a line;

close without erasing it

is the skill itself.

I refuse to believe there is

MrSmith1 — Sat, 10 May 2014 20:44:04 +0000

In reply to I have no poetry in my life

I refuse to believe there is no poetry in your life, DD. Perhaps it's just blank verse. In which case, try holding it over your toaster and maybe the secret message / poem will appear. Poetry surrounds us, we just don't always see how it all rhymes. ;-)

If my soul's taken

before I should awaken,

am I forsaken?

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Irony they say,
a fly in your Chardonnay,
doing the breaststroke.

I have no poetry in my life

Richard Day — Sat, 10 May 2014 19:41:37 +0000

In reply to A More Than Pleasant Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

I have no poetry in my life lately.

My soul must have been taken.

But I found this at Salon:

WHAT IS IRONY?

3. A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what was or might be expected; an outcome cruelly, humorously, or strangely at odds with assumptions or expectations.

An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It’s a black fly in your Chardonnay
It’s a death row pardon two minutes too late
And isn’t it ironic… don’t you think?

Beautiful Flowerchild! And

MrSmith1 — Fri, 09 May 2014 22:28:05 +0000

In reply to Stripped of their

Beautiful Flowerchild! And bravo to kid #1!

Stripped of their

wabby — Fri, 09 May 2014 21:14:04 +0000

In reply to A More Than Pleasant Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

Stripped of their colors,
flowers seem like structural
wonders of nature

Another poppy, pic taken by kid #1 a few years ago.