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What’s a banister
without any stairs to go
along? Just a fence.
🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
inspired by @thehollowquiet
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How far into those
woods before all landscape is
thoroughly obscured.
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What’s worth rescuing?
There’s only so much room in
this old weathered boat.
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God, this marketplace.
Even her very soul won’t
fetch a decent price.
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inspired by @sanddollarpoems
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Time passes mostly
to reveal how all this was
nothing but a joke.
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What happened in schools
that the cruelest among us
now fashion the rules?
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inspired by @dustseeker
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When the dentist has
a toothache, even he must
go to the dentist.
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Whether through fields or
gardens, it shall ever be
your silence ringing.
🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
inspired by @smakkabagms
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Shadow following
again, reminder of all
that’s been left unlived.
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Sometimes you wind up
with no Phish tickets, other
times way too many.
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Neither day nor night,
up nor down, left nor right, but
beyond the either.
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If only the plague
had been worse, perhaps the world
wouldn't need this war.
🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
[lost haiku from 2022]
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Oh Putin, my heart's
broken. I knew it must have
been you all along.
🍁 Red Leaf Haiku by © John Clark Helzer
[lost haiku from early 2021]
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Though my head knows it’s
true, this confounded body
cannot believe it.
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Okay get ready
now here comes the best part of
the whole funeral.
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Even something that
just lasts a day could be for
the rest of your life.
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What if flying is
just stringing together all
the sky’s empty holes.
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—composed in a dream
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