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the world and i
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Just when I thought I was running out of ideas, perhaps losing my connection to the source of these tiny poems …

Just when I thought that maybe I had written all that I was supposed to write, had perhaps seen every detail in my daily life two or more times …


Just when I began to wonder, *How long can I keep this up* …

I found some more. 

On a simple night walk, a child on my back, restless, unable to sleep in the recent heat …

While taking a wrong turn on my way home from work because I was looking at something or thinking about something or was maybe just in the mood, somewhere in my being, to take a different path …

After reading an article about what makes haiku poetry haiku poetry …

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<center>**(1)**</center>
 
<center>a lone ladder stands
amongst the flowers and pines
enjoying a rest</center>
 
<center>**(2)**</center>
 
<center>Here, of all places
stacked and balanced perfectly,
our lost wedding bands.</center>
 
<center>**(3)**</center>
 
<center>Watching the sun set,
I suddenly feel an urge
to take out my phone.</center>
 
<center>**(4)**</center>
 
<center>I once looked for love.
Now I look for the glasses
on my head.</center>
 
<center>**(5)**</center>
 
<center>a passing train or
another sudden downpour
hard to tell these days</center>
 
<center>**(6)**</center>
 
<center>it was my shadow
that led me to your door
then followed me home</center>
 
<center>**(7)**</center>
 
<center>this heat is like
a curtain hanging between
the world and I</center>
 
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<center>**As always, thanks for reading.**</center>
<center>*All feedback, thoughts, suggestions, criticisms, etc. are welcomed.*</center>
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@dbooster ·
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I often think I have no more haiku in me. But then I turn off my mind, take a walk or watch the wind, and more show up. It's just as well, because if they didn't, I'd write haiku bitching about not being able to write anymore haiku 😂

Your photos are great. They go well with setting up the words. 

> a lone ladder stands
amongst the flowers and pines
enjoying a rest

This is great!

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@boxcarblue ·
Actually, I hadn’t even thought about how the pictures would compliment that haiku, but you’re right. I’ve been pretty frazzled over here as late, so thinking of poems and organizing posts all feels just a little bit out of reach at the moment. 

It’s nice to hear that other people feel like they might run out of inspiration too at times. 

Letting go and relaxing is definitely the answer.
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@boxcarblue ·
Thank you for your curation.
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@nickydee ·
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>I once looked for love.
Now I look for the glasses
on my head.

>it was my shadow
that led me to your door
then followed me home

<hr>

Your poems ❤️
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@boxcarblue ·
After I write that shadow poem, I laughed and thought, Nickydee is going to read this one differently from everyone else. 😊
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@nickydee ·
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:D

So good!

It's like that for sure!!! ;)

Sending tons of love from the South. Trying to rest and fuck it's hard for people like me 👀

New learning curve so hey ho... let's see what unfolds next.

Keep writing dem tiny poems, please. Just beautiful ❤️<div><a href="https://engage.hivechain.app">![](https://i.imgur.com/XsrNmcl.png)</a></div>
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@owasco ·
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Oh my goodness these are all great, but that shadow one really floats my boat! You're so good at this! 

I love how you are now supplying us with a preamble to your haiku. I wonder if this post qualifies as haibun - if I remember correctly, a haibun is a combination of a story and a haiku. 
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@boxcarblue ·
Hmmm … I wonder too. If you had asked me a day ago if I knew what a haibun was, I would have said yes because I have heard of them and read about them before. But know that I think about it, I couldn’t tell you if this actually qualifies as a haibun or not, so I guess I don’t actually know what one is. 

Writing a weekly haibun, though makes a lot of sense. I often sit down and wonder what I should write about when I make this weekly post, and because of that, writing a little intro sometimes feels like a real chore. 

I’ll see what I can learn about haibun and try that next week. 

Thanks! And thanks for always reblogging these.
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@owasco ·
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[Here's one](https://peakd.com/hive-170798/@owasco/mizu-no-oto-every-image-has-its-haiku-edition-47-english) I wrote a couple years ago. 

And [here;s](https://peakd.com/hive-161465/@dbooster/baseball-camp-a-haibun-haiku) one from @dbooster 

They are very different!! 
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@rt395 ·
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Very cool, images and words. Do you ever wonder why or what caused you at that instant to choose a different path? I'm obsessed with what inside me makes me do things. 

I like these two.

Here, of all places
stacked and balanced perfectly,
our lost wedding bands.

it was my shadow
that led me to your door
then followed me home

The first creates a clear image, while the second provokes memories, thoughts. Nice one.
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@boxcarblue ·
I’ll never forget my high school friend’s older sister saying this at his graduation party, *Do you ever, like, just wonder, man … why at this exact time in your life you’re reading this book?*

It’s similar in a way to what you asked, and yes, I wonder about that all the time. I often change my route according to the color of the traffic lights. If the light is green, I’ll go one way. If it’s red, I’ll go another. 

On this particular day, I was just spacing out and missed my turn. What was I thinking about at that time? Now that you’ve asked, I wish I could remember. 

One of the poems that you like came from that moment. Sort of. I stumbled upon a nice pile of rocks in a place where you wouldn’t normally expect to find such a perfectly stacked and balanced pile of rocks. When I first wrote the poem, I ended it with that image but it just didn’t have any impact. Then, a week later I got to thinking about how my mother had lost her wedding band some years ago and how shortly after she and my father divorced. And this memory of sorts led to other thoughts which brought me to the image of lost wedding bands stacked and balanced perfectly. 

I thought that image made for a much more intriguing poem/story.
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@owasco ·
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I found my husband's wedding ring, which he had not worn in years and I assumed he had lost it, neatly stashed in a tiny decorative box long after his death. That particular poem of yours got to me. 
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@shemzy ·
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The first verse got me thinking, who's the lone ladder, who are the flowers and pine. But it added a better finish, "enjoying a rest"  and that's a good one. Nice poem
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@boxcarblue ·
I’m glad you liked the ending. Actually, the ladder was just a ladder, but my hope in the poem was to animate the ladder. If I were the ladder, I would have been happy to have been alone in a garden with beautiful flowers and pines taking a break. 

And, because a ladder can have a human-ish shape, it’s not hard to imagine it being a symbol or a metaphor for some type of person as well. So it sort of works both ways.
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@shemzy ·
Yeah, I had actually thought you personalize a human as that ladder
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