All day attending
to inexplicable cries
—a lifelong habit
Tag: Haiku
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AprilPoWriMo 30
Never very good
at endings I have written
a poem a day
for twenty five months
now I am not sure if I
deserve a break when
a human arrives
imminently it could be
any moment now
just as I describe
writing as something to do
so too is changing
diapers or putting
car seats in strollers to walk
a path part way through
a life I never
expected to include this
heavy interlude
I would trade poems
for a new life—wouldn’t you?
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AprilPoWriMo 29
We might remember
things that happened long ago
because we knew them
as the possible
we have not experienced
until they happened
and then instead of
remaining fixed in our minds
they appear to be
as far from us as
we want them to be because
they are not over
even forgotten
they stay about to happen
instant as distant
events holding us in place
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AprilPoWriMo 28
Why with so much time
infinitely spooling out
is never enough
no one knows how much
easy platitudes to make
the most of every
moments all we have
little do we acknowledge
they are eternal
why you remember
unique characteristics
no one may else know
but for the telling
this is how the water breaks
the gleaming of eyes
the birth of the universe
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AprilPoWriMo 26
Century still young
despite the fact that twenty
years ago too soon
what will we grow up
to be or not as the case
may be will not yet
this experience
too good not to share and yet
know it leaves us still
droning in endless
cacophony grows restless
even in the dark
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AprilPoWriMo 25
Probably not worth
worrying about the world
children inherit
foregone conclusion
those who could make the biggest
difference—didn’t
Joshua Keiter 