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An apple a day
Keeps the doctor awaiting
Proof of insurance.
#dailyhaikuprompt - apple
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Everyone should know
STEM is the vital support
On which the Arts bloom.
#dailyhaikuprompt - stem
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Ponderous pumpkin
Behold its orange glory
Lourd Gourd Almighty.
#dailyhaikuprompt - pumpkin
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You know the secret
When spelling "Chrysanthemums"
Is that "Mums" the word.
#dailyhaikuprompt - chrysanthemums
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The fitted mask slips
Uncovering social woes
And I am exposed.
#dailyhaikuprompt - mask
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The crunch of the leaves
As I crisply cross the street
Autumn underfoot.
#dailyhaikuprompt - crunch
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The cycle concludes:
Seed sprout flower fruit harvest
Then begins again.
#dailyhaikuprompt - harvest
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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.
-- Rumi
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The vivid colour
Of the leaves in fall change once
The leaves have fallen.
#dailyhaikuprompt - vivid
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Hop around the puddle
Unlike the youthful habit
Jumping into them.
#dailyhaikuprompt - puddle
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Cleaning the fireplace
Creosote, soot, ash and dust
Ignite memories.
#dailyhaikuprompt - fireplace
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"They're harmful," he said
As he tossed the plastic straw
Off of the cruise ship.
#dailyhaikuprompt - straw
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Born astride a grave
With only one life to live
We must make it count.
#dailyhaikuprompt - grave
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My father said once
They just had turnips to eat.
Now I understand.
#dailyhaikuprompt - turnips
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The barnyard erupts
As geese squabble over corn
'Til each have their fill.
#dailyhaikuprompt - geese
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Harvest and enjoy
Can the rest for the winter
Sunshine on a shelf.
#dailyhaikuprompt - harvest
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The finest clear day
Is not one with fine weather
But one with clear thoughts.
#dailyhaikuprompt - clear day
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As the nights lengthen
And the veil thins between worlds
The first ghost appears.
#dailyhaikuprompt - ghost
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Dense and thirsty roots
Willow binds the river bank
Keeps its footing sure.
#dailyhaikuprompt - willow
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While sometimes conflict
May be easy to ignore
It's hard to avoid.
#dailyhaikuprompt - avoid
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North wind and gray cloud
Shift the pallor of the sky
'Til it looks like snow.
#dailyhaikuprompt - north wind
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No one should be jailed
For any form of laughter
Except manslaughter.
#dailyhaikuprompt - laughter
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Another day done
The world pauses at moon rise
Another night starts.
#dailyhaikuprompt - moon rise
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The full moon gazes
On a night chill with promise
Of much cooler days.
#dailyhaikuprompt - night chill
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Nature's fresh bounty
Apples hanging from the tree
Crispy crimson fruit.
#dailyhaikuprompt - crimson
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I am all adrift
Without a prompt to guide me
Indecisiveness.
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Bright amber pine sap
Shining solid on the trunk
Until you touch it.
#dailyhaikuprompt - pine sap
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Fly the flag for flour
The building block of bakers
Together we rise!
#dailyhaikuprompt - flour
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Vines are not daunted
By solid walls in their way
They simply climb them.
#dailyhaikuprompt - vines
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Red makes me anxious
Yellow leaves me feeling ill
Green is so calming.
#dailyhaikuprompt - yellow leaves
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We call them mittens
But to cats they're better known
As dagger scabbards.
#dailyhaikuprompt - mittens
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New moon at the rise
Hope lights the darkness below
The cycle renews.
#dailyhaikuprompt - new moon
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In life it is true
What we cannot just enjoy
We must then endure.
#dailyhaikuprompt - endure
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A thin rime of frost
Forms along the edge of leaves
Nature's jewellery.
#dailyhaikuprompt - frost
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Warm moist meets cool damp
Weather fronts swirl together
Autumn rains supreme.
#dailyhaikuprompt - swirl
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No one cheers for sleet
Neither song nor poetry
Lauds wet, stinging ice.
#dailyhaikuprompt - sleet
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The grain in the wood
Provides strength and direction
Evidence of growth.
#dailyhaikuprompt - grain
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A little known fact
Carp grow to suit their pond size
As do some of us.
#dailyhaikuprompt - carp
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Hunter's moon to mark
The final act of harvest
And end of summer.
#dailyhaikuprompt - hunter's moon
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A snail works daily
Weighing the world on its back
Thus labours Atlas.
#dailyhaikuprompt - snail
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On this Hallowe'en
The foggy mist arises
To shroud the living.
#dailyhaikuprompt - foggy
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The high tide washes
All the remnants of today
Into tomorrow.
#dailyhaikuprompt - high tide
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The layer between
The warm water and cool air
Early morning mist.
#dailyhaikuprompt - mist
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I'm sentimental
In a sickly sweet manner
But hardly maudlin.
#dailyhaikuprompt - maudlin
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While raking I heard
Laughter carried on the wind
Along with the leaves.
#dailyhaikuprompt - laughter
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Nothing is lucky
About a four leaf clover
Highway interchange.
#dailyhaikuprompt - clover
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These empty farm fields
Desolate in appearance
Open for gleaning.
#dailyhaikuprompt - desolate
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A sparrow shelters
Neatly tucked beneath the eaves
In a borrowed nest.
#dailyhaikuprompt - eaves
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Last days of summer:
Weekend of boisterous fun,
Labour Day, then school.
#dailyhaikuprompt - boisterous
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About this diner:
There's sea bass on the menu
But not on the plate.
#dailyhaikuprompt - sea bass
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Flanders and Swann switch
From one vine to another
A song for our times.
🎵 #dailyhaikuprompt - vine
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As the weather shifts
And the coolness settles in
Our thoughts turn to Spring.
#dailyhaikuprompt - coolness
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Reflected ripples
Dapple the cottage ceiling
On a fall weekend.
#dailyhaikuprompt - dapple
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Packed in like sardines
Returning to our birth place
We drive to the sea.
#dailyhaikuprompt - sardines
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The signpost read HALT
As if for a bus or train
So there he waited.
#dailyhaikuprompt - halt
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Walnuts in the tree
Are suddenly on the ground
Thonk, whump, whack, kerplunk.
#dailyhaikuprompt - walnuts
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Firm, fuzzy peaches
Summersweet seasonal treat
Now here, too soon gone.
#dailyhaikuprompt - peaches
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It's not October
So why do I hear footsteps
In an empty house?
#dailyhaikuprompt - footsteps
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Open the windows
Morning air is refreshing
Following the rain.
#dailyhaikuprompt - refreshing
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I cannot conceive
Attempting this endeavour
Unless it has 'u'.
#dailyhaikuprompt - endeavor
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Dinner on the grill
Salmon on a cedar plank
Salad on the side.
#dailyhaikuprompt - salmon
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The dead tree branches
Cradle the new moon's pale light
A lunar lantern.
#dailyhaikuprompt - lantern
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Eat the ripe pear now
Before angry wasps find it
And make themselves drunk.
#dailyhaikuprompt - pear
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When sunlight turns dim
And the weather turns chilly
Turn up your collar.
#dailyhaikuprompt - chilly
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You mean "undulate"
When describing rolling hills
With a "g" it's cows.
#dailyhaikuprompt - undulate
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I can only guess
They had a needle to hide
And used a haystack.
#dailyhaikuprompt - haystack
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A vibrant orange
Succumbs to a somber brown
Autumn settles in.
#dailyhaikuprompt - somber
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No longer humid
A brief reprieve for breathing
Slightly thinner air.
#dailyhaikuprompt - humid
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The summer party
Grown weary with the weather
Yearns for cooler climes.
#dailyhaikuprompt - grown
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Stacked incautiously
I open the pantry door
To a wild cascade.
#dailyhaikuprompt - cascade
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Simple potato
Delicious carbohydrate
Nature's humble starch.
#dailyhaikuprompt - potato
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Thanks for the invite
I'm afraid I must decline
It gets dark early.
#dailyhaikuprompt - decline
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Laggard sunrise glow
Appears later each morning
Winter is coming.
#dailyhaikuprompt - glow
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Like a sole shark's fin
A sail on the horizon
Cuts through the salt air.
#dailyhaikuprompt - sail
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