Oct
Almost... ◠‿◠
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in an elegant pale white dress,
matching bodice and ac·ces·sor·ized
with a red-spotted hat-
sanity's autumn
assassin
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"If Atman is Brahman in a pot (the body), then one need merely break the pot to fully realize the primordial unity of the individual soul with the plenitude of Being that was the Absolute." - Yogic saying
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bouquets for Demeter
litter an empty altar-
banging door
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon
The notion of an oubliette (trapdoor in ceiling of an otherwise totally enclosed space) is a gentler way of thinking? This also accords with many systems of metaphysical explanation. The violence of shattering seems to belong to early shamanic methods and less useful in our modern times.
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Harvest Moon,
waning over an empty churchyard-
spring dreams
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my neighbour,
his body of a grey squirrel-
nuts in may
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"Hurricane Nadine, which became downgraded to Tropical Storm Nadine, is currently circling the Azores in the Atlantic." - Daily mail
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lapping at the doorstep-
leaves in old drains
don't
M U S I C A L U D E
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with this guy,
any season is a target-
Chuck Berry
Love Love Me Do: the Beatles first release, 50 years ago today. . .
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50 autumns
spinning on life's turntable -
'love me do'
mmcg
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choked with leaves-
the widower's neighbour,
her one bat pond
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nice autumn sprig-
if I was just a little kid
would they smirk?
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"...the sound of thousands of marching feet were heard in the downstairs bedroom on the north side of the house which was the side which covered the fairy path." - Shee-Eire
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faery blossoms
by the cattle's stone circle
in a leafy corner
"Fall: [N. Amer] The season when the leaves fall from the trees" - WordWeb
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autumn sale-
the toddler's freebie,
a starter cactus!
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party breath ages
inside a tree's balloon-
autumn wind
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BBQ bargains!
Garage de F’Orecourt
CLEARANCE SALE
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no stone unturned-
even under the railway bridge
their winter hangers
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whizzing to work
in their body temples-
autumn leaves
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long death. . .
an autumn doldrum,
gray on grey
Dog Day, not Indian
summer's shadow
item 14
LEAVE GATE AS YOU FOUND IT
tell the autumn gale
marines
NOTE
Although for populist reasons I usually reference as 'haiku', the truth be told, the only way out of the classic haiku vs modern haiku conflict is to distinguish global haiku as haiku and classic haiku as hokku. Hokku was, originally, the opening tercet (3 line stanza/verse) of a social poetic chain re·ac·tion called 'renga' (as we all should know). However, hokku was also a standalone medium which, eventually, was raised to a mystically inclined fine art form by the heavenly mandated Matsuo Basho. Since then many changes have occurred (usually for the worse). And so we arrive in modern times. Now with all sorts of variations vamping on the original somewhat sublime technique, and all associating themselves with hokku under the dodgy blanket term 'haiku' (Shiki). Much more could be said about all this (and will be, no doubt); however, for the time being that's my thought for the day.
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dog of war!
my neighbour's new puppy
barks at an old leaf
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