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Thanksgiving Haikus

30/11/2014

 
This series of haikus, each related to US Thanksgiving, was started by Robin Leigh Morgan.


By Robin Leigh Morgan


Thanksgiving Day’s here.
Time to feast and not overeat
Stomach ache comes next.

Family is here.
Relatives we seldom see.
Some we don’t care to.

Turkey has been stuffed.
So are we after the meal
Time for dieting



By Russell Conover


The meal was just great 
But now I'm regretting it. 
Darn post-food coma!






By Amy Friedman


Spoonful by spoonful 

The mound of food grows smaller 
My tummy expands ...






Gordon Lawrie offered a transatlantic viewpoint...


A SCOTSMAN LOOKS AT THANKSGIVING, by GORDON LAWRIE


It's St Andrew's Day 
We're not eating turkey here 
I think I'm relieved



In November, by Gordon Lawrie

16/11/2014

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November 
It seems 
Is the month 
When poets write most 
Succinquaintly.
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Happiness, by Jane Reid

16/11/2014

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Flora 
wags furiously 
when Beulah returns 
home to fix dinner 
now
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Mad Peter, by Eric Smith

16/11/2014

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Mad 
Peter viciously 
Throws the librarian 
Into the black van 
Why?
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Cinquain #4, by Janette Jorgensen

16/11/2014

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Hell 
broken self 
colluding with past 
weeping, shouting, praying, writing 
hopeless
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St Mary's County, by Eric Smith

16/11/2014

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Who could leave St. Mary’s? 
Turn his back on twin rivers 
Brimming with sails 
Dazzling, dancing in the sun 
Rolling inexorably to 
The bay? 

Who could forsake softball, 
Keno, bingo camaraderie 
With pool-shooting, crab-picking 
Pickup-driving deer slayers 
Forsake the hams kale and cabbage stuffed 
With holiday ceremony? 

Forsake the charm of Amish farms 
Rocking down rutted gravel roads 
On to church or market with 
Echoing hooves clopping on pavement like 
Grandfather clocks gone insane inside 
The rumble of buggy wheels? 

Oh! St. Mary’s, 
Tobacco barns’ tin roofs rusting, 
Framed oak beams groaning, leaning, 
Poplar planks rotting 
To the sandy soil.
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Fixes, by Eric Smith

16/11/2014

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Sipping coffee clouded by cream 
Absorbed in mindless morning prattle 
Characteristic of our ilk 
Alcoholics shuffle into liquor stores 
Clutching exact change 
Junkies writhe on roach-infested mattresses 
Reaching for their works
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By Jane Reid

15/11/2014

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Alexy wandered down // alleyways
Always following // appetites deemed unnatural
By blind-minded bureaucrats //balking at belief
In things unseen // unthought-of
Insubstantial tales // Insight forbidden.
Though logic // limited
their lawless quest // a quandary when
vision verified:// The veins ran red
as Alexy, avaricious, fed.
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Curling (Cinquain No 3) by Gordon Lawrie

14/11/2014

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Curling – 
A game 
Invented in Scotland 
But played in Canada 
Fanatically
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Cinquain No 2, by Gordon Lawrie

14/11/2014

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Once 
Two golfers 
Stood in threes 
Shouting "fore" but scoring 
Five
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Cinquain No 1, by Janette Jorgensen

14/11/2014

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Alzhiemer's 
clock ticks 
Mom knits scarves 
she wants to die 
now
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Anticipation Haiku, by Gordon Lawrie

14/11/2014

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Friday Flash Fiction
Gives me so much amusement –
Can next week come soon? 
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Artistic Haiku, by Gordon Lawrie

14/11/2014

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For those who struggle to get the syllables right.


Pure five-seven-five
May freely be thrown away –
Jackson Pollock would. 

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Haiku, by Emma Baird

14/11/2014

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A blog says 
Check out these pointless websites. 
I do, and it makes me smile. 

Cat bounce dot com 
Is definitely my favourite one, though I hope 
No animals were harmed. 

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Hapless Haiku, by Jane Reid

14/11/2014

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Playing solitaire
On the computer screen
While other tasks lurk

Urgent deadlines loom
The mind wanders aimlessly
Down frivolous paths

Another day goes
Mindlessly past missed goals
Accomplishments: none 
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For George, On The Occasion Of His 60th Birthday, by Homer, ed. Janette Jorgensen*

6/11/2014

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“You will never be 
lovelier than you are now, 
everything is more beautiful 
because we are doomed. 

The roaring seas and 
many a dark range of mountains 
lie between us – 
We will never be here again 

like that star of the waning summer 
who beyond all stars rises 
bathed in the ocean stream 
to glitter in brilliance ... ” 

*Jan assembled the above poem entirely of lines from The Iliad. In doing so, she has attracted our most famous author yet to Friday Flash Fiction
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Short Vacation, by Eric Smith

5/11/2014

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I live in a strange hotel 
Stare at unfamiliar newsprint 
Events without sequel or prologue 
Speak little 
Drink too much in the lounge 
Walk untried streets 
Under a Western sun 
Buy an airplane 
Ticket home with a movie
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Backyard Haiku, by Janette Jorgensen

5/11/2014

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neighbour's scattered food - 
rooftop invitation for 
an audacious rat 

“the space is too small - 
seagulls never land here,” oops 
a defiant gull swoops 

the crimson bird's song 
pierces an evergreen hedge - 
startles, rising high 

lush green memories 
hidden in pale, spring colours - 
suppers in night air 

transposed mirror rests 
gently against the maple - 
captures mystery
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The Vermonter In October, by Janette Jorgensen

5/11/2014

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the trees hesitate,  blur 
as if the train were a starship leaping into hyperspace 
  
and I sympathize with the painterly fascination 
for luminosity, I glimpse the space that inhabits solids 
  
as light-infused pigments run together 
in finger-painted finger-streaked impressions of pumpkin and acorn squash 
  
dizzy, I turn away from the strata of glowing hues, earthy browns; 
there is too much to see
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Sheryl, by Eric Smith

3/11/2014

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Grieving her father’s violent ride 
Down the silent shaft 
Sheryl’s tilted sad career 
Pours from never-empty bottles 
Sheryl feels the worlds collide 
As when her mother dropped her 
She hammers her twisted other self 
Bloody with raging young woman fist
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Québecois Grandma, by Gordon Lawrie

3/11/2014

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A poet who came from Québec 
Had a grandchild who left her a wreck – 
She knew that release 
Lay in bottled-up peace 
But should it be brut or demi-sec?
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