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A Baker's Dozen Assorted Haiku and Senryu

The best thing about

Haiku is that if you run

Out of room you can…

 

Polar bears rarely

According to my knowledge

Play Marco Polo.

 

Sing with your eyes closed

And your audience can be

A thousand panthers.

 

The television

In the front room bites me when

I pet it too hard.

 

Is it still a haiku if all seventeen syllables are in one

 

No one can deny

My right to dream. Ah, someday

An all-moose hockey league.

 

Too late at night, I

Wonder if Shakespeare wrote D’s

The way I write mine.

 

I rearrange my

Furniture to make room for

More hopeful years.

 

James Dean. Rock Hudson.

Montgomery Clift. Cary Grant.

I’d hit it, girlfriend.

 

A girl of the streets

Offers him the right price for

One more game of checkers.

 

My bed does not face

The window. When it rains,

I always sleep through it.

 

I have not seen a

Sunrise in years; I don’t

Use public bathrooms.

 

…always continue

In another. [Something neat

About a panda.]

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Apr 26, 2010
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