March 2013
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- Written by: Stephen Bailey
just for today
the blossom that was
never mine
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival
2013 Haiku Invitational International Section - Sakura Award
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- Written by: Stephen Bailey
rehab farm —
unspent shells weather
into ploughshares
Johnny Baranski - August 2014 (War and Peace)
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cold comfort —
a usurer warms himself
with moth balls
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priestly prayer . . .
a pedophile grooms
his millstone
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it is finished!
the charge of sap that drives
my birth to bloom
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song of summer —
a tone poem glides
through the words
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brushstrokes
of darkening summer . . .
shadows fold in
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milky way —
what brushstrokes to paint
the void, the stars?
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lenten rest . . .
an earth dweller reflects
on the moon
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sultry night . . .
words of kindness thicken
into syrup
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autumn night . . .
the darkness itself drowns
in a radio
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this hand of mine,
what other shapes waste away
in autumn mist?
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autumn dusk . . .
shadows stretch across
the chess board
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hanging moon . . .
thuds from mourner's shovels
echo the loss