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haiku

Haiku -- an unrhymed Japanese lyric poem having a fixed three-line form consisting of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively.

I beleive you can
Do you beleive you cannot?
Let's see who is right.
The Keyboards letters
Typewriter or computer
Makes work easier
Writing these Haikus
Is starting to strain my brain
I think i wrote enough
This is a Haiku
It's written for me and you
Not supposed to rhyme
I'll try once again
To write another Haiku
There, see I did it
Put your mind to it
Haikus are easy to write
Just think a little
OK I will stop
I think that's the last Haiku
That will end this page
by Marvin Simon marban@gate.net Copyright 2000

Look at that beautiful sky
White clouds showing underneath
Are the stars hiding?
The Green grass growing
Look like it's time for mowing
Something i don't do
What is that power?
Only the Niagra Falls
Surely can't go up
Snowing at christmas
A child opening presents
What a happy sight
OH say can you see
is a song we all noel
Like a jingle bell
My beautiful car
It can take me very far
But i like it here
See that butterfly
A caterpillar can't fly
He doesn't have wings
See the waves ripple
A sailboat on the water
Makes it so cool
A hot summer day
A pitcher and a batter
Oh, what a challenge
A hot summer day
A cookout in the backyard
Swimming in the pool
Writing poetry
That has humor is for me
That is what I like
by Marvin Simon marban@gate.net Copyright 2000

Like a forest stilled
By winter’s gentle, white peace,
May Christmas keep you.
by John Sparks - Quietude a Christmas Haiku - Copyright 1999 - jcosparks@email.msn.com

Still-tepid sunsets
Spread a second hope of gold
Over browning fields.
Thinly-hung yellow,
Bent-over stalks no longer
Divide shifting winds…
Fading leaves quiver
With ornate and brief display—
Hungry ground below.
Few left are russets
Clinging to thin, snowy twigs
That snap with a puff.
The full moon chills low
On whitened glass at midnight
Dreaming of rebirth.
by John Sparks - Fall Haiku - Copyright 1999 - jcosparks@email.msn.com

Knowledge gives power
Power creates arrogance
Leading to abuse
by Ed Shustack - Copyright 1999 - shu@bellatlantic.net

Mary Ellen smiles
As she teaches Poe and Scott
In the Lord's Classroom
by Ed Shustack - Copyright 1999 - shu@bellatlantic.net

Missed here on earth
By students who knew her best
Thank you Dear Lady
by Ed Shustack - Copyright 1999 - shu@bellatlantic.net

God in Heaven knows
Earth has become a toilet
Ready for His flush
by Ed Shustack - Copyright 1999 - shu@bellatlantic.net

Facts versus fiction
Interpretation decides
Guilt or innocence
by Ed Shustack - Copyright 1999 - shu@bellatlantic.net

Major League Franchises
With Minor League Management
Today's School Systems
by Ed Shustack - Copyright 1999 - shu@bellatlantic.net

Package from heaven
Handiwork of the Master
Gift for Mom and Dad
by Ed Shustack - Copyright 1999 - shu@bellatlantic.net

Lifetime memories
Scrapbooks of joy and sadness
Archives of the mind
by Ed Shustack - Copyright 1998 - shu@bellatlantic.net

Birds of a feather
Ripken, Alomar, Davis
All sock together
Baltimore Orioles by Ed Shustack - Copyright 1998

Angelic beauty
Blue eyes and strawberry hair
Grandparents' delight
by Ed Shustack - Copyright 1998

Honkytonk Lady
Plays a cheating song and leaves
Tears on the jukebox
by Ed Shustack - Copyright 1998

Leader of nation
Slithers beneath all contempt
Polls show approval
by Ed Shustack - Copyright 1998

Role models all gone
Morality losing ground
Country does not care
by Ed Shustack - Copyright 1998

President tells lies
Forgive him those trespasses
Our bellies are full
by Ed Shustack - Copyright 1998

Decision is due
Uncertainty confuses choice
A chance lost forever
by Ed Shustack - Copyright 1998

Opportunity
Vanishes like smoke in wind
When apathy rules
by Ed Shustack - Copyright 1998

Heartache comes and brings
Intense pain throughout my mind
Lasting a lifetime
Heartache by Ed Shustack - Copyright 1998

Sweet scented roses
Delicate in appearence
Claw hands of tender.

Willow weeps alone
when cormorants fly away
autumn chills the air.

Gulls coast through the sky
descend thermals to become
nature's hang-gliders.

Lightning veins the sky
Invites drumming of thunder
Scent of rain in air.

Marilynn Domroe Copyright 1997.
These four haiku were previously published in FreeXpreSsion, in West Huxton,N.S.W.,Australia.

Among twenty snowy mountains
all that moved was the
eye of the blackbird

A favorite of Donneley Fenn

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