Haiku 2021 - #427

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empty house -
rust on a
faded sign

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Haiku 2017 - #259

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new summer, old eyes ...
the gloss
of the dragonfly

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Bent and broken tines ...

a tattered web and rusts

of other autumns.

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(QR Code)

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Curled, peelin' with the leaves ...

that dog's been missin'

since April.

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The River ...

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... clic-clac young one rising

clic-clac tired one's fall clic-clac

passing pages clic-clac pressing track

clic-clac ever onward

clic-clac never back ...

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The old tree

her name healed away

... and he rests.

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Old mother

the voices in the cart

... music of the wheels.

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Flaking shadows
the old warehouse
... forgetting its name.

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Hummingbird
mistaking this old salt
... for sweet blossom.

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Moon-Lantern-Moth #5

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Crescent moon
torn lantern
... frayed moth.

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Shuffled old man
appointing to pavements
... his last disputes.

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Morning's gay spillings
urgings too plenty
... for sleepy bones.

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A weary cat
her sinking saunter
... infectious.

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Things improved:
rusting things
... things bending.

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Perhaps, this meadow
is the heaven intended
... for mossy old stones.

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A frail paper man
tenders his thin boat
skimming thinner glass.

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Slumped pickets
mortared stones gone feral -
hot eyes in the verge.

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... and comes the printed man -
but do not ask,
he cannot say.

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(Inspired by scrabble at Flickr)

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In living view
of a vast sand sea -
lamenting lost grains.

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Fears in soft pieces
foundation's rumble, intentions stumble
... the lost pretense of old fences.

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