APPROACHING THE DAWN

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a purple sunset

and a poem offered

as sacrifice to the Gods

 

and we’re still inching

closer to a new haiku

after the midnight

 

and grandfather clock

managing to strike 12 times

in synchronized beat

 

with a new moment

entered into the annals

and time fades away

 

and it’s getting dark

inside my night time dreams

inspiring hope

 

and hempen evening

dissolves into starlit night

just a trifle warm

 

and subtle nuance

penetrates the poetry

in simple motif

 

One is all, all one

Etcetera and so on

Approaching the dawn     


7-2-00

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Wow!, what an impressive

Wow!, what an impressive Haiku sequence.  Bravo!


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thank you.  my appreciation

thank you.  my appreciation for the Japanese poets continues to grow

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Are you familiar with the

Are you familiar with the Haiku of Masaoka Shiki?  He was a brilliant poet of haiku and tanka, and is believed by many scholars to have reformed the genre as we now have it.  He was taken from life early, but had already done such brilliant work.


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I will have to look him up. 

I will have to look him up.  thank you for the recommendation