Archive for Life and Death
March 19, 2013 at 5:41 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Clouds, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Life and Death, Poetry, Rain, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Year, Weather, Winter
Last day of winter
Dark clouds weave the season’s shroud
Mourning raindrops fall.
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September 11, 2012 at 5:53 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Autumn, Buildings, Haiku, Holidays, Human Affairs (Jinji), Life and Death, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Year
Eleven long years
Since the world went up in flame…
Memories still burn.
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March 25, 2012 at 9:00 am · Filed under Food and Drink, Haiku, Health, Human Affairs (Jinji), Life and Death, Poetry, Pseudohaiku, Seasons (Jiko), Senryu, Spring, Time of Year
Sober for five years
I have got my marbles back…
Now to play with them.
Based on the old AA saying, “It takes five years to get back your marbles, and ten years to learn to play with them again.”
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November 11, 2011 at 8:40 am · Filed under Autumn, Buildings, Earth and Water (Chiri), Haiku, Holidays, Human Affairs (Jinji), Life and Death, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Year
Names carved into walls
Crosses in foreign graveyards
Freedom isn’t free.
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May 13, 2011 at 8:22 am · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Buildings, Butterflies and Moths, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Insects and Spiders, Life and Death, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Summer, Time of Year
A funeral mass
Perching on the church’s door
A black butterfly.
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January 17, 2011 at 11:58 pm · Filed under Haiku, Holidays, Human Affairs (Jinji), Life and Death, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Year, Winter and tagged: dream, holiday, human, inspiration, martin luther king day, postaday2011
One man with a dream
Awakened the whole nation
Never let it die.
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December 15, 2010 at 10:21 am · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Birds of Prey, Earth and Water (Chiri), Haiku, Life and Death, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Snow, Time of Year, Winter and tagged: bird, cardinal, claws, falcon, feathers, hawk, predator, prey, pun, red, snow, songbird, white, winter
Pierced by falcon claws
Red feathers on the white snow
A cardinal sin.
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November 18, 2010 at 8:56 am · Filed under Autumn, Haiku, Health, Holidays, Human Affairs (Jinji), Life and Death, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Senryu, Time of Year and tagged: great american smokeout, habit, haiku, health, holiday, human, human nature, occasions, pipe, Senryu, smoker, smoking, tobacco
Tamped pipe tobacco
He lifts it to his nose, sniffs,
Sighs, and shakes it out.
The Great American Smokeout on November 18 encourages smokers to quit for just one day. For more information visit www.cancer.org.
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A Haiku Each Day 