#716

dandelion seeds

blown on summer afternoons

carry time away

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Written for the Tricycle August 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, summer afternoon.

#715

a stillness in this

summer afternoon suggests

we will soon be through

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Written for the Tricycle August 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, summer afternoon.

#714

the beatles had it

right when they described the rain

summer afternoon

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Written for the Tricycle August 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, summer afternoon.

#713

the beatles got it right with their description of summer afternoons

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Written for the Tricycle August 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, summer afternoon.

#712

summer afternoon

giant skyscraping buffets

left for all the bugs

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Written for the Tricycle August 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, summer afternoon.

#711

every path’s forks

should clearly show the choices

and consequences

#710

inevitable

White Lotus Hotel haiku:

no enlightenment.

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Written for the Tricycle July 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, lotus, but was not entered.

#709

lotus broken free 

untethered, unsupported 

wonderful chaos

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Written for the Tricycle July 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, lotus.

#708

lotus broken free 

untethered, unsupported 

wonderful chaos

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Written for the Tricycle July 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, lotus.

#707

laid out like lotus

leaves covering a pond all

my faults stretched out bare

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Written for the Tricycle July 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, lotus.

#706

we hope to lie down

on a bed strewn with lotus

to help us succeed

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Written for the Tricycle July 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, lotus.

#19

elegance shines out

like a lotus serenely

sat on the surface

(nobody sees the anchors

no one knows what’s underneath)

#705

elegance shines out

like a lotus serenely

sat on the surface

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Written for the Tricycle July 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, lotus.

#704

a single lotus

reminds me of you, of how

separate we are

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Written for the Tricycle July 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, lotus.

#703

we feed the lotus

within, take such care of it

but when will it bloom?

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Written for the Tricycle July 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, lotus.

#702

curled up and tiny

inside a lotus flower

protecting me still

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Written for the Tricycle July 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, lotus.

#701

in the garden of 

life at end of each path

a lotus flower

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Written for the Tricycle July 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, lotus.