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Your life in a Haiku.

I want to see the community's creativity.

Summarize your life in a Haiku poem!

I'll start...


Opening my eyes
Filled with curiosity
Seeking my passion

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  • Sep 28 2011: My eyes upon Earth
    A future with hearts and minds
    Reaching for the stars.
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    Sep 28 2011: The Past revolves
    In front of the Future me
    I am the Present...
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    Sep 27 2011: Spark, spark, spark, fire, lite
    Pull, pull, hold, puff, wait, pull, hold
    Hold, puff, meditate.
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    Sep 27 2011: Heart...pumping...red fluid
    muscle..rhythm. Beats for itself,
    or what else? Whom else?
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    Sep 21 2011: I will get there ... soon
    Enough Moon to warm the eyes
    Soothe the lonely heart
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    Sep 21 2011: Come, poets, there's more room for Haiku....

    June-bugs hit stone walls
    Crisp knocks plummet-
    joining life to death....
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    Sep 15 2011: A Haiku a day....

    Slow your steps and stop,
    rest awhile on this blue bench....
    Jumping days are over
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    Sep 15 2011: Time goes on.....

    September breezes
    caress me gently...
    Time aches in my knees
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    Sep 13 2011: Soar like a free bird
    The great blue endlessness above
    Cast your shadow deep down
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    Sep 12 2011: Thanks Debra.....you spur me on....

    Finches' well aimed chirps
    target buttercups waxy heads....
    Yellow waves resonate
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      Sep 13 2011: Cardinal's pointed hats
      of bird and rich church's garb
      Proclaim infinite glory
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        Sep 13 2011: One for my furry friend.....

        In the still of dawn
        meditations with a cat :
        mammal hearts beating
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    Sep 12 2011: Here is my attempt at the task you have set and my attempt at something new:

    blossom, bud, fruiting
    wonder living fully ripe
    sap running still, still
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    Sep 12 2011: I watch TED
    even if I am dead,
    i watch videos from dawn to dusk
    even if i am covered in dust.
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    Sep 12 2011: Ask me anything,
    I have the answers to all .
    Some will be : I don't know
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      Sep 13 2011: Ask me anything
      brain food offered for free
      dine, discover, learning
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        Sep 25 2011: Yes, yes, yes, affirm,
        see the good in everything....
        Take time to weep
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          Sep 25 2011: Affirmation, words
          fountains to the parched dry soul
          Thirsty hearts blossom
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      Sep 21 2011: Show me where its at
      I see the vast stream
      Light, loving, respect
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    Sep 10 2011: Disregarding the 5-7-5 syllable rule....

    April is an expectant mother
    She is pregnant with
    hope for May
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    Sep 7 2011: My life in Haiku....

    Crisp green sprouts of youth,
    tired aching wobbly knees-
    All this in a blink
  • Sep 5 2011: hold a mind untouched
    to find a shore unshaken
    can we rest in peace?
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    Sep 5 2011: Always in pursuit
    for the carrot on the string
    One day, I'll get it
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      Sep 21 2011: Hi Austin,

      Haiku !! 575 -

      Will you talk soon
      Strange, I, missing you !!
      I am hanging on

      Is this anywhere remotely a Haiku :-) ??
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    Sep 4 2011: My Haiku:

    Why am I so ill
    still so gripped by this time
    so sing with that will
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    Sep 4 2011: Searching for my world
    Which is right in front of me
    How did I miss it?
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      Sep 5 2011: I can totally relate to this
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    Sep 4 2011: my big epic fail
    turns out: its true happiness
    note to self: detour.
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    Sep 4 2011: when i was young i believed the world was flat
    went to school
    world is round
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    Sep 4 2011: Simply lost in space
    Infinite realities
    God without power
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    Sep 4 2011: My life in Haiku continues;

    July clouds above me
    ladder rung under my feet-
    dream paint in my brush
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    Sep 4 2011: revised:

    I breathe the scent of
    Liles-of-the-Valley,
    Waving gently,
    Alive.
  • Sep 4 2011: Enfolded time is
    At the moment of embrace:
    So ageless both be.

    Unending time is
    At the facing of yourself:
    So agéd all be.

    Unheeded time is
    At the last calm acceptance:
    Enough just to be.
  • Sep 4 2011: Eyes fear the unseen
    Ears deaf with city noises
    I connect with earth
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    Sep 4 2011: Allow peace to come
    Doves descend on thick-veined hands
    Haiku leaves my pen


    Sit under blue skies
    across from yellow Chevy
    Happy on green chair
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    Sep 3 2011: I thought will was way
    Then wondered why will wasn't
    Why seems way to will
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      Sep 4 2011: . . . and it is as it was in the land of the shall, where warmth is the only clime.

      I really liked your word craft.
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    Sep 3 2011: There is a silence
    We'll just wait for the ill shout
    Oh, this is the world