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We're all supposed to do something constructive today. I have decided to follow the lead of all the entertainers/artists flooding DC and compose an inaugural haiku.
Maybe we should all do this. Not that I'm ordering you to. It's not like I'm President, you know. But it strikes me as "a good idea."
I (we) need to finish it (them) by tomorrow's inauguration.
Good luck.
Now I need to do a search on haiku and refamiliarize myself with the line/syllable scheme.
later, cranefly
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Bono sang badly
but it was cool to hear Pride
where MLK spoke.
There's my 5-7-5 on yesterday's festivities.
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
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Oh heck. Running out of time. Here's a clunker.
Clothes for the dusk king
Lucid weave of hope and change
Machine wash with science
--cranefly
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another party
every four years we meet
the same boss again
In the Tudor Period, Fencing Masters were classified in the Vagrancy Laws along with Actors, Gypsys, Vagabonds, Sturdy Rogues, and the owners of performing bears.
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many years of shame
now I'm proud again to be
an American
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Heh-heh.
Yeah, the negatives are more apropos, I fear.
I had a first version that ended with:
more words, blah blah blah
But then I tried for something more positive.
I do believe we're leaving The Age of Denial.
Hopefully this won't be a sequel.
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Hmmm - Postive:
Eight years of torture
I still gaze out the window
Hope lives on inside
Negative:
The house is destroyed
Even the new carpenter
is filled with despair
Does Haiku really work in English? We have so many words that 'share' syllables. Especially verbs 'de-stroy-ed' (2 syllables or 3?). I guess if you look at it poetically it could be 'destroy'd',
English is messed up.
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Vax two shakes and aches.
This new reality sux.
Annual boosters?
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Chillin at dog park
I’m feeling normal again
Grateful for my vax
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TTT with this
Haiku poems FTW
DOOM poets unite
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(11-05-2021, 01:07 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Work today. That's all.
Last leaves fell off the ash tree.
Sounds like a bare ash.
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Daylight savings time
Snuggled in bed already
Rain pitters outside
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Becuase of Bean from the Kevin and Bean show relentlessly drumming this into my head it is Saving not Savings.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm
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(12-06-2021, 02:46 PM)thatguy Wrote: (12-06-2021, 10:47 AM)King Bob Wrote: Ginkgo leaves turning yellow now. My tree is the slowest around here it seems. Not too cold this morning. Nice view of Orion over the trees.
that's a nice poem you got there...
--tg
Tempo is off for a haiku tho.
lessee now...
Ginkgo yellows now
Not too cold on this morning
Nice Orion view
Leaves turn yellow
My tree is the slowest here
Tree views Orion
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not too cold this am
my slow slow ginko yellows
I spy the hunter
--tg