poet, interviewer, musician, traveler
There are many difficulties associated with meditation. Also, I guess this technically is a senryu rather than a haiku, the difference being that haiku have an element of nature and senryu are usually about human nature.
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count the breaths … four
think of kissing you
…one
icy rain
soaring Decemberists:
I’m moving on
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Citalopram
fills the broken tub
in my head
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salty dream
awaken to the chime
…sit
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deoxy-
ribonucleic acid:
me
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This haiku is a commentary on a haiku by George Swede, anthologized in Cor Van Den Heuvel’s The Haiku Anthology. First, Swede’s haiku:
Summer night:
in my eyes starlight
hundreds of years old
million-year light:
cast toward snow-bound streets
before man’s dawn
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February storm
potato and red onion
in miso soup
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bath in winter
water drains from the tub
my legs are heavy