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Category Archive: Family

02 Sep

A dead friend’s birthday / my phone keeps reminding me / ghost in the machine.

Twoku: Ghosts in the machine / my phone keeps reminding me / birthdays of the dead. Threeku: Despite all my deletions / ghosts in machine remind me / of dead…
2019/09/02 at 9:49 pm Leave a comment
14 May

One day’s not enough / to celebrate all they’ve done / but it’s a good start.

Happy Mothers’ Day!! — the Haikook — Save
2017/05/14 at 6:35 pm Leave a comment
29 Dec

A choice at the end / whether to let go of life / or linger longer.

RIP Debbie Reynolds. RIP Carrie Fisher. — haikumages —     PHOTO CREDITS: all images taken from the internet, no authorship, ownership or other rights are implied or claimed by…
2016/12/29 at 4:13 pm Leave a comment
So thankful / I can choose what I'm / thankful for. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
24 Nov

So thankful / I can choose what I’m / thankful for.

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2016/11/24 at 2:06 pm Leave a comment
His soul looking down / saw the shell it left behind / finally empty. // haiku - micropoetry - haikumages
29 Jul

His soul looking down / saw the shell it left behind / finally empty.

My ex-father-in-law, my children’s other grandfather, has died. More accurately, the person, the man, the father, and grandfather we knew and loved, departed some time ago, and the shell he…
2016/07/29 at 5:22 pm Leave a comment
Warm Christmas Day walk / beautiful cacaphony / all cultures, all faiths. // haiku - micropoetry - haikumages
25 Dec

Warm Christmas Day walk / beautiful cacophony / all cultures and faiths!

I went walking with my family, for two miles at the beach, on the warmest Christmas Day of our lives so far. We expected a few non-Christians, of course, but…
2015/12/25 at 9:58 pm 1 Comment
I know this pain well / of being pulled out of dreams / to reality. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
18 Dec

I know this pain well / of being pulled out of dreams / to reality.

Twoku: A familiar pain / of waking up, being pulled / away from my dreams. Threeku: Yes, I know this pain / unwillingly awakened / broken out of dreams. You…
2015/12/18 at 1:40 pm Leave a comment
The weather forecast / an ill wind blowing, cloudy / a chance of bullets. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
03 Dec

The weather forecast / an ill wind blowing, cloudy / a chance of bullets.

A mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, has left at least 14 dead and at least 17 others wounded. But San Bernardino wasn’t the only mass shooting in America on…
2015/12/03 at 11:25 am 1 Comment
All the characters / some fearsome, some fabulous / out to play today! // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
31 Oct

All the characters / some fearsome, some fabulous / out to play today!

2015/10/31 at 4:41 pm Leave a comment
Our father, whose art / in heaven, hollowed be thine / aim, thy kingdom punned. // George Murray
21 Jun

Our father, whose art / in heaven, hallowed be thine / aim, thy kingdom punned.

2015/06/21 at 2:14 pm Leave a comment
Untimely / departures, loved ones / leave too soon. // haikumages
13 May

Untimely / departures, loved ones / leave too soon.

Twoku: Tragic, untimely / painful, ongoing, sadly / one more leaves too soon. Yet another young person we knew — a man in his early twenties — left us today. …
2015/05/13 at 6:10 pm 1 Comment
Mothers, stepmothers / foster, adoptive, loving / maternal -- thank you! // haikumages
10 May

Mothers, stepmothers / foster, adoptive, loving / maternal — thank you!

Twoku: You givers! / Thank you for all things / maternal. Much love from all of us, to all those who mother us, in any and all forms!  – the…
2015/05/10 at 1:23 pm Leave a comment