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[redleafhaiku]

Oh Rabbit, the way

Horse kicks you in the head! Why

don’t you seem to mind?

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

[redleafhaiku]

Octopus, flower,

spider and moon, you all love

the same number most.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

[redleafhaiku]

As above, so goes

below. Now sit back and watch

this distorted show.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

[redleafhaiku]

Finally, the bear

learns he has to enjoy not

eating the honey.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

[redleafhaiku]

One hand each for life

and destruction, her skull dressed

in chrysanthemums.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

[redleafhaiku]

Surprise! What you thought

you knew, you do not. Which is

really no surprise.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

[redleafhaiku]

If I had a dime

for every time you let me

down, I’d have a dime.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

[redleafhaiku]

Soundless, the tiger’s

footsteps follow sunset down

the cottonwood path.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

[redleafhaiku]

Which will be safer:

if the launch button says “Don’t

Press Me”—or “Press Me”?

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

[redleafhaiku]

Everyone riding

in back had almost a split

second to laugh last.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

[redleafhaiku]

To truly forgive

feels a bit like having just

won the lottery.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

[redleafhaiku]

When Satan and God

play chess, no matter who’s white

or black, God moves first.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

[redleafhaiku]

The captain dreams there

is no anchor. The sailboat

dreams there is no shore.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

[redleafhaiku]

The Nine Lives of Colonel Butters

Though he won’t meow of it, Colonel Butters licked many in the war.

But the sour truth is that, as every kitten learns, milk is never free.

Whether three times three, five plus four, or by ones, nine lives go by quickly.

Claws may retract like they say, but not the feline heart, nor a cat’s soul.

Since he came home from the front, even a ball of yarn cannot cheer him!

Just staring out the window, his scone unnibbled, his tea barely lapped.

That faraway look in his eyes, pipe in paw, his poor whiskers trembling.

Heavens, dear Colonel, what could you have done that’s so unmeowable?

If only those mutts had stayed in their yard. Bollocks to those bloody hounds!

🍁 Nine Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

[redleafhaiku]

Why did your eyes have

to have the best smile that my

eyes had ever seen?

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

[composed in a dream last night]

[redleafhaiku]

Wanna cheat death? Have

a dream that lasts longer than

the rest of your life.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer

[redleafhaiku]

Some things need not be

understood to be known true.

Even me and you.

🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer