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Bee’s bumbling ballet / buzzing, bumping blossoms with / beautiful purpose. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
02 May

Bee’s bumbling ballet / buzzing, bumping blossoms with / beautiful purpose.

Twoku: Aerial ballet / a bumbling, buzzing, bumping / dance with each blossom. // haikumages
2021/05/02 at 9:39 pm Leave a comment
The old mill's windows / overlook the waterfall / that once moved millstones. // haiku - micropoetry
10 Jan

The old mill’s windows / overlook the waterfall / which once moved millstones.

Here’s the full prose-text I wrote about these images, which I then distilled down to 17 syllables: “Windows of the old mill-turned-inn, overlooking the waterfall and rushing stream (small river?)…
2021/01/10 at 5:42 pm Leave a comment
A half shell / of its former self / since life left. / haikumages
13 Jul

A half shell / of its former self / since life left.

Twoku: Now just half the shell / it used to be emptied of / the life that left it. Threeku: Half the shell / that fell after it / released…
2014/07/13 at 2:25 pm Leave a comment
Requests for joining / important causes online / can they be ignored? Haikumages
05 Dec

Requests for joining / important causes online / can they be ignored?

This is a re-working of a haiku from 2010, posted here (belatedly) with a heavy heart from recent events… NO! Causes can NOT be ignored–if there are causes we think…
2012/12/05 at 8:21 pm 2 Comments
A name not taken / empty space in the roster / person non grata. Haikumages
03 Dec

Empty persona / blank space in the madding crowd / outline, no content.

Twoku: A name not taken / empty space in the roster / person non grata.
2012/12/03 at 7:36 pm 2 Comments
21 Apr

Wordsmith shortens words / as needed for his purpose / bends them to his will.

2012/04/21 at 3:51 pm 2 Comments