“Let us contemplate – Montmartre as the new year – starts and summer ends”
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Haiku, Happy Rosh Hashanah And Autumnal Equinox
September 20, 2017Haiku Duet, Uncle Pete
September 19, 2017“Oldest rail paint scheme – Signal Red, Armour Yellow – and Harbor Mist Gray”
“North Star to the Lone – Star; windy Lake Michigan – to the Pacific”
Haiku Duet, Aging 101
September 13, 2017“Have friends from every – decade of life, walk a big – dog, eat healthy food”
“The alternative – to aging is dying like – Jimi and Janis”
Haiku, Twit-In-Chief
September 13, 2017“Unreliable – Trump betrays allies and throws – friends under the bus”
“Trump is the slut who – betrays his best friend just to – give himself pleasure”
“America is – scaring the world with the tweets – of its Twit-In-Chief”
Haiku Duet, Europe’s Slow Response
September 12, 2017“Colonizers love – their colonies until a – hurricane hits them”
“Small vulnerable – specs of land in a warming – climate change ocean”
Haiku, Yay! Rah! Whole Damn Train!
September 9, 2017“A whole damn train load – of sunshine to help take our – minds off hurricanes”
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Table & Speech Haiku from T & M Wedding
September 6, 2017“Some lucky people
Realize once in a lifetime
Only happens once”
“Back in the day you
Didn’t meet online, you met
At South By Southwest”
“Relax, enjoy, laugh,
Sing, love, meditate; today
Will never return”
“Whatever you make
Of today, you will carry
With you tomorrow”
“Whatever else I
Do, I know my whole life through
I’ll remember you”
“Best friends are there from
Once upon a time until
Forever after”
“Give thanks for every
Second of every day you
Spend with those you love”
“If you want to know
Someone don’t listen to their
Words; watch their actions”
“Wherever you are
Tonight, sleep peacefully and
Wake up happily”
“Listen to your heart
For it knows how to listen
To wind and silence”
“If we all could see
Through the eyes of a child
We would see magic”
“Don’t just live and think
Outside the box, live and think
Like there is no box”
“Humans need love for
Sustenance just as they need
Clothes, food and shelter”
“Your joie de vivre
And je ne sais quoi make me
Want to faire l’amour”
Haiku Duet:
1. “Firgun, a Hebrew
Word which means to take joy in
Someone else’s joy”
2. “Let us all firgun
For Michael and Tessa in
Their magic moment”
Yokes from Tessa and Michael’s Wedding, Dontcha Know
September 5, 2017Ole and Lena got married. On their honeymoon trip they were nearing Minneapolis when Ole reached over and put his hand on Lena’s knee. Giggling, Lena said, “Ole, you can go a little farder dan dat now if ya vant to”… so Ole drove to Duluth.
Ole was talking with his brother Sven, who lived next door, when Sven said, “Ya know Ole, you and Lena should really get some new curtains.” “Vy’s dat?” Ole asked. “Vel last night I saw you and Lena, vel you know…” Ole thought for awhile, then said, “Ha-ha Sven, da yokes on you! I vasn’t even home last night!”
Haiku Quintet, Who’s Next
August 31, 20171. “Tampa Bay is due – for a major hurricane – and is not prepared”
2. “Tampa-St. Pete are – the next ducks sitting in the – sights of climate change”
3. “It just takes a high – tide for sea level rise to – flood low lying homes”
4. “Every beach house that – sells they knock it down and build – a mini-mansion”
5. “Florida law lets – people challenge climate change – and evolution”
Haiku Quintet, High Water Houston Blues
August 30, 20171. “Human caused hotter – air makes hard rains harder and – happen more often”
2. “Climate change is the – biggest public health crisis – in world history”
3. “Human caused warming – helped make Hurricane Harvey – extra ferocious”
4. “Development gone – wild, royal oil and – Jim Crow own Houston”
5. “Republicans won’t – acknowledge that Harvey is – a climate change storm”
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/opinion/harvey-the-storm-that-humans-helped-cause.html action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article
