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Cento Between the Ending and the End




Sometimes you don’t die


when you’re supposed to

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After the crickets
have left for winter quarters
the clock ticks louder

Joyce W. Webb -- American Haiku, Vol. II, No. 2, 1964

I Think That When I Die


I think that when I die,
I can breathe back the breath that made me live.
I can give back to the world all that I didn't do.
All that I might have been and couldn't...

Such a fine first dream . . .
But they laughed at me . . . they said
I had made it up.

Takuchi -- Translated by Peter Beilenson, A Haiku Garland, 1968

In traditional Japan the first dream of...

On Some Other Day



on some other day

i might sense the

drift of jasmine

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All of us sitting
At the foot of the world-tree:
First day of the year.

Shirao -- Translated by Robin Gill, 'The Fifth Season', edited by Jim Wilson

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I won't miss this year --
Perhaps its gifts will appear
A decade from now.

Jim Wilson -- December 2020

Full Moon on the Fourth Day


The days are tiring since we undertook the journey but because of that no less amazing. I often ask myself if my companions and I have not spent too much time in...

Seven Seraphim
Sat at the top of the dune
To watch the sun set

James Moore - The Haiku Companion, 2012

James Moore writes in the 'Introduction' to this collection: "I first learned about...

Try to Praise the Mutilated World


Remember June's long days,
and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew.
The nettles that methodically overgrow
the abandoned homesteads of exiles.
You...

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The Grounding of Stone



Precious earth

I feel your pulse, solid under my feet

Voyage


I feel as if we opened a book about great ocean voyages
and found ourselves on a great ocean voyage:
sailing through December, around the horn of Christmas
and into the January Sea,...

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Inside there is tea
to relieve the aching bones
of old winter's chill

Odin Hartshorn Halvorson -- Hart Haiku: Pieces of a Changing World, 2017

Odin Halvorson is a local, Sebastopol, poet and...

In a Dark Time


In a dark time, the eye begins to see,
I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;
I hear my echo in the echoing wood—
A lord of nature weeping to a tree.
I live between...

Leaning on the sill
And watching the bright moonlight
Whiten the new snow.

David Hoopes -- A Whisper of Snipe, 2015

David Hoopes published a collection of haiku in the 70's, 'Alaska in...

A Winter’s Alcove

There are sorrowful, chilled fogs these days that remind one of his mortality. We are in that season when the sun loses the eternal tug-of-war with the icy moon, as exhausted...

The light of dawn called --
I heard the angels singing
"Peace on Earth to all."

Jim Wilson - December 2020

1914 Truce


Christmas Eve in the trenches of France, the guns were quiet.
The dead lay still in No Man’s Land –
Freddie, Franz, Friedrich, Frank . . .
The moon, like a medal, hung in the...

Elegy In Joy




We tell beginnings: for the flesh and the answer,
or the look, the lake in the eye that knows,
for the despair that flows down in widest rivers,
cloud of home; and also the...

This cold winter night
no bird sings; just the old moon
in a songless sky.

Peter Britell -- The 700 Haiku of the Carpenter, 2014

I like that haiku has become part of blue collar culture. I...

i have died and dreamed
myself back to your arms where
what i died for sleeps.

Sonia Sanchez -- Wounded in the House of a Friend, 1995

Eleven Unthinking Seconds


(Inspired by the Social Dilemma documentary)


Casually scrolling through my social media feed,
an ad catches my interest; Magnetic eyelashes.

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Orion says rest
oh mystery of the larynx
align forces that
speech ring true from heart to heart
transforming relationships


gather birch bark ash
mix with dried red rose petals
sprinkle...

Declaration of Interdependence
Such has been the patient sufferance…
We’re a mother’s bread, instant potatoes, milk at a checkout line. We’re her three children pleading for bubble gum and their...

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The Vote



My eyes wing out over misted fields
Dappled with islands of snow geese and sandhill cranes
I’m in my car making calls
To Hispanics in Arizona: “Your vote counts!”
This is our...

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Dew catches the sun
and floods the windshield with light.
Two-car accident.

Jim Jones -- Police Blotter Haiku, 2014

'Police Blotter Haiku' is a good example of the popular haiku genre. The...

Twilight in Hendy Woods


This is the hour of magic
When this world and the other world
Touch in a lingering kiss
And a deep stillness settles over all things.


This is the hour of magic

The Place Where We Are Right


From the place where we are right
flowers will never grow
in the spring.


The place where we are right
is hard and trampled

here's a link for you instant email members (I edited it in to Dorothy post so it will appear in the digest with a link).
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Small bird, forgive me.
I'll hear the end of your song
in some other world.

Anonymous -- Translated by Harry Behn, More Cricket Songs, 1971

Anonymous haiku, and tanka, are numerous in...

Vanishing
The grief and sense of loss we often interpret as a failure in our personality is actually a feeling of emptiness where a beautiful and strange otherness should have been encountered. -...

I feel disgusted watching the Republicans place party before country. Most recently Michael Pack, the head of Voice of America is refusing to provide information to the Biden transition team. ...

Smell of the river
casting a line of daydreams
into my window.

Michael Moore - Haiku Landscapes, 2004

Michael Moore (no relationship to the famous film maker) published this collection,...

Four Quartets: The East Coker


III


O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant,
The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of...

.I read the article. Certainly a trend especially for on-demand or higher end items.
I don't think the Penny's pair of shoes fell into this category, but the article and info was very informative....

I read somewhere recently that some retailers are now also offering used/second-hand clothing as well as new stuff. Nordstrom comes to mind, of all places. Nordstrom will begin selling used clothes -...

from these scattered shards
the young archeologist
describes the clay pot

Evelyn Tooley Hunt - Wind Chimes Haiku Journal, 13, 1984

Evelyn Tooley Hunt (1904 to 1997) is best known as a poet...

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Concord visitors
drink the wine of morning air,
break the bread of words.

Raymond Roseliep - August 11, 1917 to December 6, 1983
Flute Over Walden, 1976
Thoreau Journal Quarterly, 1973
Quoted...

From The Intelligencer on December 4th:
For much of the pandemic, Harvard epidemiologist Michael Mina has been just about the country’s biggest and most enthusiastic proponent of mass testing. For...