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4 minutes ago, Liz Mastin said:

Thank you! I can see that this site is really helpful in straightening out all the rules and fine points of writing form poems! 

Well, we have a comprehensive REFERENCE SECTION which Tinker has meticulously compiled. 

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27 minutes ago, Tinker said:

2019 #44

the downstairs neighbor
burrows and hides underground
fossorial lair
               ~~jvg 

Fossorial lair --
I seem to have lost my feet:
my life is a beach. 🌴

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7 minutes ago, Liz Mastin said:

My life is a beach

Down here l relish sweet peace

As the tide rolls in.

As the tide rolls in --
will there be a tidal wave? --
a gentle undertow. 

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Keep your wallet safe
from what's unnecessary 
Urge to buy "On Sale"

from the black desert

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9 minutes ago, Tinker said:

#57

Santa soon to fly
right past my house in search of
good little children
                       ~~jvg

What a delightful poem, Tink! Ah for the days when "we" were children, and Santa came to "our" house! I have one!

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4 hours ago, Tinker said:

#61

In their disbelief,
they still hedge their bets
just in case.
             ~~jvg

😄 My brother, whom l love, said " l don't believe in God, thank God! the inspiration for this poem.

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I remember a long, long time ago when I was questioning what I truly believed, it occurred to me that it was a lot better to believe in a loving God than in nothing at all.  I chose to be loved.   Atheism has never made sense to me, why choose "nothing" over "love"? And if I'm wrong, the worse thing that could happen is I lived in grace created by my own belief. If I'm right I get the bonus of heaven.  It's a win/win.  :wub:

~~Judi

#62

Just in case
I forgot to say it before,
Merry Christmas.
            ~~jvg

~~ © ~~ Poems by Judi Van Gorder ~~

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5 hours ago, Tinker said:

I remember a long, long time ago when I was questioning what I truly believed, it occurred to me that it was a lot better to believe in a loving God than in nothing at all.  I chose to be loved.   Atheism has never made sense to me, why choose "nothing" over "love"? And if I'm wrong, the worse thing that could happen is I lived in grace created by my own belief. If I'm right I get the bonus of heaven.  It's a win/win.  :wub:

~~Judi

#62

Just in case
I forgot to say it before,
Merry Christmas.
            ~~jvg

Merry Christmas!

I love your philosophy. And then why take a chance (or) what is there to lose!

l was not a believer, but l had proof. And also "before" l believed, the bible did not seem to make sense, but after, it did!

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5 hours ago, Tinker said:

Let's get this train back on the track.

2020 # 12

Merry Christmas
these words brighten my day
even in February
                  ~~jvg

Hi Judy, have been away on several trips! Last one to mexico!!

I like your Haikui! It makes me think of how Alexa stilll plays Celtic Thunder's Christmas songs when l request, " Alexa, play Celtic Thunder!"

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Have I been out of the loop this long?   Yes this was about the time the fires started and they are still burning.

waking in meadows
with white ash coverlets 
random embers glow  
                       ~~jvg

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6 minutes ago, Tinker said:

Have I been out of the loop this long?   Yes this was about the time the fires started and they are still burning.

Yes Judi, have thought about you. I read that one of the fires is Rhode Island sized, as big as my entire state! 😮 

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Sharing life with trees
when my ashes are well placed
Sequestered carbon

from the black desert

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goldenlangur

with a grateful heart

listening to the blackbirds

this clear dawn

goldenlangur

 

 

Even a single enemy is too many and a thousand friends too few - Bhutanese saying.

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18 hours ago, goldenlangur said:

with a grateful heart

listening to the blackbirds

this clear dawn

2022 # 31

this clear dawn
a doe grazes on sweet grass
blades glisten with dew
                 ~~  jvg

~~ © ~~ Poems by Judi Van Gorder ~~

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I like messing around with forms. I came up with the absurd idea of an Hieroglyphic Haiku. It's not great, but yay for pushing the medium?

𓆸    𓆸
𓈖𓀆𓈖
    𓆏

Translation, give or take -

lotus blossoms dot
the cool, trickling waterfall -
oops, there goes a frog

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Hi Mike, interesting concept and I love the images and humor in the "translation".   Just a note, here on the forum haiku train, the idea is to use the last line of the previous haiku posted as your first line.  It sort of makes a chain from poet to poet.  I feel lucky to have been fed that last great line from your haiku for my first line.

#32  2022

oops there goes a frog
onto forum railroad tracks
jump Kermit,  "choo choo"
                      ~~jvg 

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~~ © ~~ Poems by Judi Van Gorder ~~

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             In dawn's midst, I walk
             when trees bathe in hugging mist
             and we both shiver.

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Hi RC,  Great to see new blood here.   Love "when trees bathe in hugging mist" what a beautiful image.  

Just a note there is a Topic Haiku Journal where individual haikus can be posted or you can post one simply as it's own topic if you want comments.  

Here on the Haiku Train, it is a collaborative effort in that posting a haiku, the poet uses the last line of the poem previously posted as the first line of their haiku.  It creates a chain of haikus written by various poets.  Such as:

2022 #32

"and we both shiver"
strolling barefoot at low tide
bubbles in the sand
                    ~~jvg 

~~ © ~~ Poems by Judi Van Gorder ~~

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