MID-FEBRUARY HAIKU ASSORTMENT

(Each individual three-line haiku is considered a poem on its own,

despite perhaps being related to a common theme.–J.E.C.)

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(Additionally, haiku may or may not include punctuation—traditional haiku generally do not  have it –J.E.C.)

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Presidents’ Day off

Waving away package trucks

Skeleton crew on

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American loss,

Long weekends not historic…

Blurred history lost!

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High snow banks turn brown

Road salt stains on pavement grey

Waiting for snow days

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Plow trucks stand idle

Except for salting road ice

No more overtime?

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Winter buds wonder

Is it time to grow and sprout?

Freeze burnt other years…!

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Swans in ponds feeding

Youngsters finally on their own

Mommas drove them off

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Easter candy sales

Set up before the fourteenth

Valentines half off

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–Jonathan Caswell

GATEKEEPER HAIKU

GATEKEEPER HAIKU

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Closing–opening

access to a loving heart

sanctum protected!

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Mind of an old guy

Takes in all manner of sights

Most he keeps to self

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People still stir hearts

Learning trust at the message

Responses guarded

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Dreams’ reality

Hard to move from this to that

cardboard Brenda Star!

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Gatekeeper on duty

Quality control agent

Pure sacrifices

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The Holy one  comes

His Temple is within us

His Spirit keeps the gate.

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Close gates on evil

Open to God’s holy love

Entrust hearts to God!

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Mother’s skirt protects

Being near one’s Protector

God would spread His wings!

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–Jonathan Caswell

HARD-TO-HEAR HAIKU

HARD-TO-HEAR HAIKU

(Adult Topic)

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Become impotent

His fading manhood laments…

But what is inside?

-JEC

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Little feeling left,

No place left to vent the ache…

Must thinking change, too?

–JEC

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Engorgement all gone,

Being faithful accepts lack…

No one left to love.

–JEC

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How to love without?

Can a man still be a man”’

His woman knows that!

–JEC

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Appreciates form,

Less likely liquid lusting…

Why keep the old ways?

–JEC

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Is safer this way…

For all women that he sees,

Much less threatening!

–JEC

Power lust remains,

That…no non-phallic can cure…

Bad apples near tree.

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–Jonathan Caswell

WISHFUL THINKING HAIKUS

WISHFUL THINKING HAIKUS

(Adult topics, most…)-

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Hour-glass figure,

Driving the older men wild…

Just gives time of day!

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Loves a redhead true,

Worships the ground she walks on…

Already married!  😦

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Wants to relive youth,

Heart-troubled testosterone…

Lover’s risk too high?

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Dementia doors closed,

Restrains the wandering man…

Family relief!

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Dreamer sets out shoes

Hoping for shoes shined tonight

Only in hotels!

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Making mud pie shells,

Giving to Mommy to bake…

Brown grits with gravy!

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–Jonathan Caswell