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divorce pain
swinging high and low
at dusk
the mourning dove
starts bluesing
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#tanka
#poetry
#micropoetry
#relationships

Life throws good and bad my way...but I'm hanging in there too. We need a renga soon!

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just enough branch
to crown this moon
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#haiku
#poetry
#winter

How are you, Brother?!❤️❤️

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autumn
in the eyes of a cat
not mine
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#haiku
#poetry
#micropoetry
#autumn

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nothing in mind
weeds go
where they go
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#haiku
#micropoetry
#poetry
#summer

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all alone...
a grasshopper leaps
for the sun
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#haiku
#poetry
#micropoetry
#insects
#relationships

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snowfall
the joke I understand
too late
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#haiku
#micropoetry
#winter
#poetry

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a dead roach
on the basement floor
years ago
I too
was invincible
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#tanka
#poetry
#relationships
#micropoetry

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puddle moon
we dance around
our goodbye
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#haiku
#poetry
#winter
#relationships

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this anger
deeper every day
wet leaves
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#haiku
#autumn

Much love, brother❤️

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moon long dead our bedroom quiet
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#haiku
#poetry
#monostich
#love

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moon I imagine her as someone else
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#haiku
#monoku
#moon
#poetry

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stage 4 painting the ocean dark
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#monostich
#haiku
#poetry
#micropoetry

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good luck elsewhere I boil the rice
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#monostich
#haiku
#poetry

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ICE rumor...
another crow leaves
then returns
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#haiku
#poetry
#politics
#ICE

#haiku by Laurence Stacey. Laurence teaches English & Lit. courses at Kennesaw State University. He is also the recent coauthor of “Before the Earth: Haiku and Haikai.” #poetry #departures #cats #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #micropoetry #movingon #ksu

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cutting bamboo the war we imagine
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#monoku
#haiku
#poetry
#war

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paying bills
delaying bills
slow night
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#haiku
#poetry
#micropoetry

#monoku by Laurence Stacey. Laurence teaches English & lit. at Kennesaw State University. In addition to studying #poetics, he is a longtime martial artist & is interested in connections between the disciplines he enjoys. #haiku #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #moon #poetrylovers #poetry #father #dad

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soldiers gone
a spider descends
to the floor
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#haiku
#poetry
#micropoetry
#war

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wild clover
if you need a reason
to leave
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#haiku
#poetry
#micropoetry

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tariff news
we let the weeds
come back
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#senryu
#poetry
#micropoetry

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after the fight dad leaving no moon
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#monostich
#haiku
#poetry

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June dusk
racing downhill
the dog still wins
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#haiku
#poetry
#micropoetry

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sun cooling the cicada's flight down
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#monostich
#haiku
#poetry
#micropoetry

This is beautiful.

盗んだる案山子の笠に雨急なり [虚子] stealing the scarecrow's hat, sudden rain (Kyoshi) [tr. Dick Whyte]

#俳句 #haiku #poet:Kyoshi #era:1800s #era:1900s #kigo:autumn #kigo:scarecrow ❖ Source: #LafcadioHearn (1899) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the terms "scarecrow" or "rain" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤

声に皆鳴しまうてや蝉の殻 it cried till it became all voice— cicada shell [Anon] (tr. Dick Whyte)

#俳句 #haiku #poet:Anon #era:1600s #kigo:summer #kigo:cicada ❖ source: #LafcadioHearn (1900) ❖ Sometimes incorrectly attrobuted to Bashō ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the term "cicada" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤