Haiku Sticky #578

 Goodbye 2020!  Onward and upward!  Let's stay masked and get vaccinated!

 

 

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2020
nothing to see here folks
...move along

Happy Haiga Day!

 

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winter sun

a strength to be found

in weakness

 

Haiku Sticky #577

 

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nearly Christmas

 

not a gift wrapped

nor card sent:

time is a humbug

 

a pandemic will

do that to custom

Happy Haiga Day!

 

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winter solstice

welcoming a sign
that sweet color
will end this darkness

...never mind that
it's forced

Haiku Sticky #576

 

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video clips of
vaccine deliveries
gift enough this year

Happy Haiga Day!

 

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breathe...
there is a certainty
beyond ourselves

Haiku Sticky #575

 

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Christmas eve

highly detailed
instructions in a font
too small to read

a sudden need to
spike Santa's milk

Happy Haiga Day!

 

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December nor'easter

rain snow sleet
from all directions
--simultaneously

as if the wind
can't make up its mind

Haiku Sticky #574

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apartment complex

a level of security only

for the squirrels

Happy Haiga Day!

 

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November light

it appears the sun

has the power to put

the proverbial lipstick 

on this dirty old pig

of a river

  

Haiku Sticky #573

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covid lockdown
talking to the ducklings
on the Dawn bottle

Happy Haiga Day!

Last month I participated in a Spark postcard exchange.  Usually I write a short poem, digitally illustrate it, and print off a 4x6" copy to send as my postcard.  I impose upon myself a theme that I use to get me going.  In October my head was completely taken up by the presidential election, so, I didn't write poems.  Instead, I borrowed the words of another poet, Carl Sandburg, to illustrate using photos and illustrations in the public domain.  Sandburg's Good Morning, America (1928) collection contained a numbered list of 38 definitions of poetry.  Here are three of the postcards that I created using Sandburg's definitions #2, 14, and 21:

 

 

Haiku Sticky #572

 

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one year after moving
one more box emptied
more than one to go

 

Happy Haiga Day!

 Just a random small poem for today.

 

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Time of Drought

Crow does
not doubt
one rain
drop will
mean two
rain drops,
will mean
three,
then four.
Nor does
he doubt
death will
find him
if that one
rain drop
does not
fall
at all.

Haiku Sticky #571

 

 

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two nights' sound sleep
too good to be ended
so soon

Happy Haiga Day!

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waiting for fall to end

raking and bagging
raking and bagging

with patience new 

cooler winds will arrive
to blow the rest away

Haiku Sticky #570

 

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election day hope
extra strength antacids
no longer needed

Happy Haiga Day!

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Text:

those who pick
at her scabs hope
to topple her

voters may provide
the corrective

to keep her standing 

Happy Haiga Day!

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fall 2020

stepping on the cracks
to break the back

of he who is working
to make the fissures
too wide to cross

Haiku Sticky #569

 

 

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lab tests
I eye the vials as they fill
four...seven...ten...

 

Happy Haiga Day!

 

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tomato bumper crop

mid-October and
the pandemic continues

despite all else
we can depend on
a salad

Haiku Sticky #568

 

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election day looms...
planning to live without
breathing

Happy Haiga Day!

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autumn takes hold

an air of desperation
to all activities

the new year will
reveal whose attempts
at survival prevail

Haiku Sticky #567

 

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mourning doves pick
through the rain gutter
--winter prep

Happy Haiga Day!

 

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making plans

spring and summer
spent at home

in November we'll
walk through the leaves
to vote

Haiku Sticky #566

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turning leaves
the days still the same...
the same...the same

Happy Haiga Day!

Here's a haiga from January 20, 2017 that I'm reprising today.  Now, nearly four years later, we know that what we once thought was a mask, is a full-out evil visage.  Sadly, in the time of a pandemic, we now wish he would wear a real Covid mask. 

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Text:

Mephisto
the crowd still expects
he'll remove his mask

Haiku Sticky #565

 

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weather a month
ahead of the calendar
...first day of fall

Un-Happy Haiga Day!

In recognition of the loss of Ruth Bader Ginsberg--civil rights advocate extraordinaire.

 

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Ruth

The woman wore
crocheted net gloves--
clearly, an anti-fashion
fashion tease.
Her gloves were a
tribute to the skill of
generations of women
who created beauty
and complexity
within a net of society.
She knew full well
that one day, the net
would be turned
inside out to release
the little fishes and
snag the leviathan.

Haiku Sticky #564

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September

even the water

is leaving the pond

Happy Haiga Day!

 

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"next summer..."
our song of 2020
the "maybe" unsung

Haiku Sticky #563

 

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nary a wake

the duck pair now

empty-nesters

 

 

Happy Haiga Day!

 

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September 2020

we'd been waiting
two months for the turtle
eggs to hatch

today, viewing the debris,

we hope for the best

 

Haiku Sticky #562

 

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sparrows' songs
the brief cessation
as I walk by

Happy Haiga Day!

 

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fall is coming...
bee ignores the cell phone
in its space

                                          

Haiku Sticky #561

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August morning
a field of sunflowers
all facing east

Happy Haiga Day!

 

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30 yard dumpster
how quickly a life can
be disassembled

Haiku Sticky #560

 

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arriving home
face-off with the family
of field mice

Happy Haiga Day!

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holes in the sidewalk
where a mailbox always stood
August 2020

Haiku Sticky #559

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$131,700

was burning a hole
in someone's pocket

he ended up with a letter
about dinosaur poop
--I shit you not

 

A little background reading.

Happy Haiga Day!

 

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 pandemic lock-down
--running out of subjects
to turn into verse

Haiku Sticky #558

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Text:

three months to go...
fear neck and neck
with hope

Happy Haiga Day!

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heat wave

old cat appears

to have melted

Haiku Sticky #557

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Trump's death charts
one more elderly victim:
democracy

Happy Haiga Day!

I found a small bag of Barbie shoes the other day. It immediately made me wince. One of the most painful surprises is to step on a Barbie high heel. It is probably on a par with stepping on a LEGO.

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little ones at play

mothers warn them:
fashion is pain

no one listens
until the crippling
of their own feet

Haiku Sticky #556

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waiting...waiting...
promises of summer rain
...waiting...waiting...

Happy Haiga Day!

I join those who mourn the death of Rep. John Lewis. He was an inspiration and his words and actions will be long remembered.

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too many chickens

he preached instead
to a foul society

he found the fowl
might be better listeners
but the foul could be cleansed

Haiku Sticky #555

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Text:

looking at graphs
Covid spikes, death stats

the other side of the coin

last night a tree frog
heard in my old city
neighborhood