#haikuchallenge #senryu #haiku @ThePoetryPea
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Forest seclusion
early Fall morn ambience
awakened senses

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#perspective #obvious #senryu #haiku
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fought with countless words
politics’ opinion wars
never to be won
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annoyed to enjoyed
criticizing the critics
a simple pleasure
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#Zen #senryu #haiku (retweet)
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Journey for proven
as circumstances mastered
disregard all else
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All is connected
now abruptly realized
completing journey
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Full of clarity
returning to beginning
empty and open
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#USMC #Vietnamwar #warpoets #tanka
shipboard reveille
all hands heave out and trice up
steak and egg breakfast
helicopter lifts off deck
perfect view land air and sea
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copter touches down
high power rifle cracks air
jungle labyrinth
leaping out through turbulence
we are at calm in this storm

(BLT 3/5’s Marine Corps mood in 1966)
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#tanka
as gulls dive and shriek
waves crash and melt on the shore
amid winds’ bluster
a walking meditation’s
energetic melody