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One edge
hanging over the mountain--
the Milky Way

---Shiki
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the branches are bare
the world grows smaller
without you

sweetly-scented leaf pile
even on the wind
your absence finds me

the season changes
this lingering stillness
remains

5 comments:

Spiros Zafiris said...

..hi Diana..>i view this as one
complete poem, though it is, too, three separete haiku-- love: "your absence finds me"..but more than that, the entire structure (for lack of a better word) has a songlike presence and supurb
completeness..>>spiros
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Vida said...

I agree. It's a beautiful poem!

diana l. said...

Thank you both. For some reason, on this particular "topic", my mind keeps working in threes.

John McDonald said...

enjoyed this Diana
john

diana l. said...

Thank you, John.