I love haiku! I feel that it is actually a bit easier to invent a haiku poem than come up with a freestyle poem because of the limitations. The syllables have to be correct, so there are only so many ways you can say something. I think nbsp;that those limitations often produce a more poignant and often more beautiful way to say something.

The fonts and colors are all wonky, I know, but each different haiku or group of haikus is separated by the lines.

Petty Annoyances

Cars stream like fishes

Blue and white dorsal fin lights

Police prowl like sharks

Big ugly cockroach

I detest your many legs

Die under my shoe!

Valentine’s Day probe

Corporate candy is king

Why do we submit?

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Haiku Quartet

Wings alight upon

Lilting lilies in rainbow

Violin trio

Staccato notes of

Macabre ghosts and demons

Organ is master

Like wind through the reeds

Careless and light, airy flight

The flute trills for thee

Oboe tones of tears

Play a solo for me, dear

Butter for the soul

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Fur of sleekest black

Eyes like a verdant forest

Merlin stalks his prey

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Freedom is like rain

Falling in an endless drought

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Freeing, it must be

The stars are as your ceiling

The bee is dying

The wind blows, and the leaves sag.

Look back, the bee’s dead.