More Fabulous Haiku by Walter Penna

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now plagued by wordplay

punished by prompt plethora

prepare some proverbs

 

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nor days nor nights - the...

endless life one is left with...

becomes one's phantom

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avoid the street yet

now like Issa sweep the step

dust off 'Good mornings'

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it is late so soon

from being early so long

let it feel timeless

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Spring anoints blind hope

hands the texture of forest

bear witness turn sod

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When Metaphor plays -

a Finnish farmhouse dance night

finishes at dawn

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Little Collins Street

like dear Gertrude van Seltzig

cries out for haiku

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linguists, linguini,

lingerie - long lists lean like

lizards licking lunch

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feel for an orange

draw off peel that draws the eye

segment my pleasure

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time stands still and waits

for our awareness to call

survey so-called once

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Issa at Eastbourne -

oh for the sake of saké

let the mermaids see!

 

'Imagine'

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slapped down like wet fish

some glisten lie caught complete

some ask with one eye

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Issa's jasmine tea

cools untouched as he withdraws

into the same world

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watch new life unfurl -

a sense of close remoteness

reaches into us.

 

'On ferns in Spring'

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Time and man measure

the long shadow of the wind

where the grasses wave

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walk to Seahouses

my inner Issa smells shell

as it becomes sand

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with day's dark decease

beginnings and conclusions

linger in our dreams

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no scat lays a trail

so go out the wrong entrance

get lost hurriedly

'In search of the Engine Room, Tottenham Hale'

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a late night silence

slinks through the world's solitude

paws at weariness

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post midnight quiet -

no early June revellers

are heard rejoicing

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nest like no other

woven by Kobayashi

from his oldest broom

'WARNING - Contains haiku'

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the corner unlit

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Walter Penna, the Cornish poet resident in London considers himself Cornish European, writes haiku and other poetic forms. Influences – Bashô, Robert Frost, Ogden Nash, Hilaire Belloc, Chekov and Théophile Gautier among a lifetime of others. haikua

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