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Autumn Musings

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My BFF suggested we go see Ann Reed last week; I haven’t seen Ann in a live performance for many years so I was excited to go.   She has such a huge repertoire, I hate to admit that this is still my favorite:

She (along with Joan Griffith) did a great set and in between many of the songs, she shared haiku with us, some of hers and some that she had found along the way.  When I went looking on the internet afterwards, I discovered she has a book entitled Our Daily Breath: Haiku & Photographs.

During my search I found a website, Haiku Universe, that will sent you a daily haiku or short poem.  You know me, I couldn’t resist.  It’s been fun the last week or so to get a little haiku every day.  Here’s one I particularly liked (by Tomas O’Leary):

then it came to me
like a bomb in my lunch bag –
it was my day off.

So I’ve had haiku on my mind.  Here are a couple of mine:

My orthopedists
Are both about twelve years old.
Having bad knees stinks.

It’s that time of year –
All of my hard work, yard wise
Fills up many bags.

Do you have any fall clean-up/organizing that needs doing?  Any haiku or poems speaking to you?

26 thoughts on “Autumn Musings”

  8. Yesterdays poem of the day was a ‘Tanka’.
    According to the page, “A Japanese form of five lines with 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 syllables—31 in all.”

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  9. Today we are taking a break from unpacking. We need to wait for the delivery Monday of a media cabinet for CDs and LP’s. Next we shall order bookcases. Husband estimates he needs seven of them. At least the books are all in the basement and out of our way.

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      2. The local butcher shop get a case of turkey wings for me. It has been a year since I was able to get them. Now I can make Lynn Rossetto Kasper’s brodo recipe.

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