#Conduct befitting
Sardine packed in olive oil
Zero wiggle room
#dailyhaikuprompt Sardine
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#Revolve to resolve
A whistle from the willows
Calls the swallow down
#dailyhaikuprompt Swallow Willows
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breathe deep dragonfly
gusts of scents that hypnotize
#fascinate sense flow
#dailyhaikuprompt Gusts Dragonfly
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Dragonfly floating
Gently on gusts of my whims
Freeform #fascinate
#dailyhaikuprompt Gusts Dragonfly
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Choose your groundcover
Pampas Grass or pompous ass
Foliage or fool
#dailyhaikuprompt Pampas Grass
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Shell game politics
#Frustrate debate then appeal
Pear shaped blooper reel
#dailyhaikuprompt Shell Pear
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Fleeing high tide spray
Winged warbler wandering flight
All through nightsong land
#dailyhaikuprompt Warbler High Tide
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direct warbler waves
#endorse my endorphins with
high tide limbic wash
#dailyhaikuprompt Warbler High Tide
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can the equinox
erase the #overcast to
let the sunshine in
#dailyhaikuprompt equinox equinox
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Equinox balance
Caress the wild within you
Always cedes valence
#dailyhaikuprompt equinox equinox
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You know that guy
With the dreads and the easy smile
Who toured the world
And all the while
That was me
But I never lived that life
You know the man
Who took command and held the helm
Through seas that swirled
And overwhelmed
That was me
But I never lived that life
You know that boy
Who saw at [β¦]
melting rule of thumb
#mediate my slice of pie
with slippery finger
#dailyhaikuprompt Melting Pie
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Peel off the horse tail
You reveal the man's essence
With every #entreat
#dailyhaikuprompt Horse Tail
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Mid March warmed until
A late snow rose from the west
Blanketing the land
#dailyhaikuprompt Late Snow Rose
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Frisky night frappe
Tadpole weasel sputum blend
Served in a pumpkin
#dailyhaikuprompt Tadpole Pumpkin
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Pumpkin head dotard's
Joke cabinet will #surpass
Horror show limit
#dailyhaikuprompt Pumpkin
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#Warmth of a hare shirt
Strap on the bunny ears hat
Plunge the rabbit hole
#dailyhaikuprompt Hare #haiku
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American Scheme
Filter out beauty and #warmth
Leaves Fruit of the Doomed
#dailyhaikuprompt Fruit
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low tide of black ink
with tsunami of red ink
smashed on the #corner
as all small boats in the town
can't rely on trickle down
#dailyhaikuprompt Low Tide Red
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blizzard warning β
the neighborβs tractor trades
a plow for a plow
#DailyHaikuPrompt | plow
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early March β
some lightning
with that snow
#DailyHaikuPrompt | lightning
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about softness β
this moonlight through the
swelling maple buds
#DailyHaikuPrompt | moon
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porcupine β
my dog and a lesson
about space
#DailyHaikuPrompt | quill
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a fiddlehead weaves
and waves β
jigs then reels
#DailyHaikuPrompt | fiddlehead
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While looking through some projects from the past, I found this animated poem I made for a project our school's excellent art teacher created during the 1st fall of the pandemic. She asked educators to "make some art" to hang for a month in a local coffee shop. She wanted to show the middle [β¦]
flakes of snow
darken
the twilight
#DailyHaikuPrompt | twilight
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My electric quill
Can't convey the messy thrill
Of the ink I spill
#dailyhaikuprompt Quill
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twilight's fiddlehead
adept adopt unfolding
#spellbound sympathy
#dailyhaikuprompt Fiddlehead Twilight
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another twilight
decline into a dark age
shrouded in belief
#dailyhaikuprompt Twilight
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