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Poetry: Haiku by Robert Stone, July-August 2009

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Dear Readers, It's been two months since I posted my haiku. Here are the recent ones. All of them were written as comments on comments or on status notes or on photographs or on blog posts or in responses to emails. -Robert Stone
Those leaves in the wind
always lose their color and
settle in the mud.

-- Wednesday, 8 July 2009


How easy to think--
what I want is the best thing
but life does not judge.
-- Wednesday, 8 July 2009

Our lives are puzzles
similar but differing --
no one solution.
-- Sunday, 12 July 2009

You ask, What is Truth?
Yesterday I thought I knew.
Ask me tomorrow.
-- Monday, 13 July 2009

Leaves fade and fall,
we always have one day left --
that day is today.
-- Friday, 17 July 2009<

Multi-media
but all will fade and fail so
we still write in sand....
-- Friday, 17 July 2009

Trees shade good and bad
and repeat back no feelings
of those who just sit.
-- Saturday, 18 July 2009

In his prayers he
laughs at fear and cries at hope
and knows his own place
.
-- Sunday, 19 July 2009

Are you sailing quiet
in the latest Argo that
joined your argosy?
-- Monday, 20 July 2009

I won't show my fear
and I will unflinching face
a world I don't know.
-- Wednesday, 22 July 2009

Food needs fellowship --
that it comes from your own hands
gives me satisfaction.
-- Thursday, 23 July 2009

Love lets us know that
there is something beyond us
that we cannot know.
-- Monday, 27 July 2009

The fires of limbo
are within the wandering
shadow moon walking.
-- Monday, 27 July 2009

There are only lies --
our job to discover which
are nearer the truth.
-- Monday, 27 July 2009

All those words to say
do what comes naturally
the arms know the way.
-- Wednesday, 29 July 2009

Behold, two of us
each badder than the other
each gooder than good!

-- Friday, 31 July 2009

Life is necessity
but how life is lived can be
wasteful luxury.

-- Sunday, 2 August 2009

Nature knows stopping.
Man's fall will be not knowing
how much is too much.

-- Saturday, 8 August 2009

Being tall or short
is relative to standing
next to tall or short.

-- Monday, 24 August 2009

Look and be blinded.
Look not at pretense and be
pushed into darkness.

-- Monday, 31 August 2009
If you are really curious as to what caused me to write one of these, send me a note and I'll let you know. Robert H. Stone at: iam@bellsouth.net

On my LiveJournal blog.


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2009-09-06 - Photo by Pen. Shelby Co., KY
Leaves fade and fall,
we always have one day left --
that day is today.
-- Robert Stone, Friday, 17 July 2009

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