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One edge
hanging over the mountain--
the Milky Way

---Shiki
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We laugh
Eating our apple pie
Like fools

6 comments:

Area 17 said...

I really like this!

We laugh
Eating our apple pie
Like fools


Do you need so many capital (uppercase) letters in so short a poem? Uppercase letters in haiku always make me think I should see it as an acrostic poem.

This is so alive and immediate as a haiku I don't want any distractions. ;-)

we laugh
eating our apple pie
like fools


Alan
Area 17
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lightmanmumu said...

point taken, it's a habit I've formed

John McDonald said...

terrific - two zen monks
john

diana l. said...

Isn't being foolish wonderful? Lovely haiku.

Ram Krishna Singh said...

I can feel the joy in occasional foolishness!
R K

Beatrice V said...

I love it!