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Poetry: 29 Haiku by Robert Stone:

By Robert Stone. from 10 November 2007 through 1 January 2008

Crooked limbs are seen
because they are eye-catching,
straight are much alike.

-- Saturday, 10 November 2007

The blaze is now gone
but the ashes are still hot
and the love afire.
-- Monday, 12 November 2007


Root gives life to leaf --
caring makes us who we are --
makes us what we share.
-- Tuesday, 13 November 2007 (based very closely on words by Chip Flippin)

The person we love
will not always be the same
person we first loved.
-- Wednesday, 14 November 2007

Winter covers life
but the desire to surge forth
is under the snow.

-- Saturday, 17 November 2007

Urine and semen --
two rivers in one channel
waning and waxing.

-- Monday, 19 November 2007

If I mark myself,
will I want to show my past
if I change my mind?

-- Tuesday, 20 November 2007

Follow my fingers
and enjoy the drawings that
help me feel better.

-- Wednesday, 21 November 2007

Experiences
form pathways lasting and sharp,
never forgotten.

-- Friday, 23 November 2007

Others wish for you
often what they themselves want,
seldom what you need.

-- Friday, 23 November 2007

Manipulation --
active I say now do this,
passive ... now what if?

-- Friday, 23 November 2007

Quizzes have answers:
but some have no wrong answers
and some have no right.

-- Saturday, 24 November 2007

Missing missing you --
of course I'm still crazy for
wanting wanting you.

-- Saturday, 24 November 2007

Harry says that One
is the loneliest number
so best stick with Three.

-- Tuesday, 27 November 2007 (reference to Harry Nilsson)

Cupcakes and champagne
wonderwork when right feelings
go along with them.

-- Wednesday, 28 November 2007

When falling naked --
keep the ups up, the downs down,
straights straight, and bents bent.

-- Sunday, 2 December 2007

Light in the darkness
stir me up to joy and bring
hope to come again.

-- Monday, 3 December 2007

Nothing is perfect
but there is truth in freedom
to show rough edges.

-- Wednesday, 19 December 2007

Heaven to be loved,
joy to be noticed with care,
hell to be ignored.

-- Thursday, 20 December 2007

Just a little shoot
will grow into a sapling
come vingt ans aprs.

-- Friday, 21 December 2007

Beauty is a thief
who breaks in and steals dullness
when least expected.

-- Sunday, 23 December 2007

Will you see me now
being myself on MySpace
or will you stay cool?

-- Friday, 28 December 2007

Our inner rainbows
are signs of our intentions
to not disappear.

-- Saturday, 29 December 2007

New Year is coming
so release the old pleasures
and make way for new.

-- Sunday, 30 December 2007

A small tree stands watch
over a small space which is
mine if I love it.

-- Sunday, 30 December 2007

We may name the days
but growing plants plod along
ignoring labels.

-- Monday, 31 December 2007

If some of us die
and leave you ours, you will have
even stranger skulls.

-- Tuesday, 1 January 2008

Looking for trouble?
I thought that most of the time
trouble looked for us.

-- Tuesday, 1 January 2008

Wrong kinds of trouble
smile first and then condemn us
to much shorter lives.

-- Tuesday, 1 January 2008
These twenty nine haiku were writtenas 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 circumstancetends to give them a different meaningbut hopefully they are still interesting.

-ROBERT STONE


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