Why is there a duck
On the lawn at dusk—oh wait
That’s a squirrel’s tail
The haze in the sky
Thicker than cloud cover but
It is not a cloud
Do we inhabit
The darkest timeline or will
It get much darker
Don’t wait to find out
Get up every morning and
Then go back to bed
Tag: Haiku
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SeptHaikuWriMo 15
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SeptHaikuWriMo 14
The chill in the air
A season like no other
Except our senses
Are not yet convinced
Memory is intertwined
With wishful thinking
Maybe we are dust
Playing in the atmosphere
For others to find
If so then they are
Checking items off a list
More and more absurd
The further they go in time
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SeptHaikuWriMo 13
When the characters
From that most familiar film
Reprise all their roles
Recognizable
And in fact mostly alive
As if they had been
Quoting the lines to
All their fans for all these years
Not even aging
But remembering
Death as an old friend saying
I’ll take care of you
I hope that is how
We recognize each other
Taking off our masks
At the end of this
Without having aged a day
Knowing all the lines
Enthusiastic
We get to share the same breath
All over again
Inconceivable
To mean what we think we mean
To act as you wish
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SeptHaikuWriMo 12
Darkness creeping in
Season of open windows
Up the hill backwards
Scary monsters and
Super creeps keep me running
Almost forty years
Was I only nine
Cassette playing on headset
The school year starting
Election looming
Pieces of teenage wildlife
Scream like a baby
Now a memory
The first abyss of twilight
It’ll make me sad
So I’ll dance my life away
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SeptHaikuWriMo 11
Orange sky followed
Us as we drove through these states
Sun might never set
We never forget
What some will not remember
Fire can be put out
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SeptHaikuWriMo 6
Moon rise on the lake
Quick get out your camera
Cloud has other plans
Embers keep burning
Until you throw water on
Another log then
Joshua Keiter 