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Poetry: Haiku from Robert Stone

Haiku: from 24 October 2007 through 9 November 2007 plus the 2006 Armistice Day

By Robert Stone

On the Western front
only the dead speak the truth
hidden from the living.

-- 29 October 2006 (haiku for Armistice Day)



Material things
at last are but scattered dust,
images remain.

-- Wednesday, 24 October 2007

Love is above all
and every belief is
a dim reflection.

-- Thursday, 25 October 2007

Having a good day
is a matter of wanting one
so want a good day.

-- Friday, 26 October 2007

What we are wanting
is often on the outside
when we are inside.

-- Saturday, 27 October 2007

We were all waiting
for same and for different,
for old and for new.

-- Tuesday, 30 October 2007

Usefulness prevails --
the question behind that eye
will find the right way.

-- Wednesday, 31 October 2007

It is All Saints' Day
and to someone who needs us
each of us is one.

-- Thursday, 1 November 2007

I am missing you --
is it that I miss most those
whom I know the least.

-- Thursday, 1 November 2007

All of us will die
but some of us will be free
to love the uncured.

-- Tuesday, 6 November 2007

After all these years
still sucking but now sucking
at a better place.

-- Thursday, 8 November 2007

Look for the next step
and hope there is a next step --
what else can one hope?

-- Friday, 9 November 2007

These dozen haiku were written as comments on blogs and photographs, as part of replies to emails, and sometimes as a comment on or for a particular person.

Not knowing the particular circumstance tends to give them a different meaning but hopefully they are still interesting.

- ROBERT STONE


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