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Poetry by Robert Stone: Haiku Dear Reader, Another two months have rolled by and here are the recent haiku. All of them were written as comments on comments or on status notes or on photographs or on blog posts or in responses to emails. If you are really curious as to what caused me to write one of these, send me a note at iam@bellsouth.net and I'll let you know. -ROBERT STONE Haiku by Robert Stone Written September and October 2011 What power must be when words of one not yet met speak so directly. - Friday, 2 September 2011 Life is swift enough. Don't wish your wishing day short. Dream future perfect. - Tuesday, 6 September 2011 Having thought wrong things saddens the heart but sadder no one can unthink. - Tuesday, 13 September 2011 Wishing you wholeness. Birthdays are sturdy signposts. Age is illusion. - Tuesday, 20 September 2011 Back from show and tell, colon showing no problems, surgeon looks and says. - Tuesday, 20 September 2011 Best birthday present-- having new eyes to see old things in new ways. - Wednesday, 21 September 2011 You have the right words so wish yourself happy day while I praise your charms. - Sunday, 25 September 2011 Things happen, we learn, we can't live without milestones, appreciate them. - Tuesday, 27 September 2011 Memories minders need others to validate what they remember. - Saturday, 1 October 2011 Today even more may smiles reflect your joy, may song fill your heart. - Friday, 7 October 2011 To live beyond now is to gather hell's tortures, the further, the more. - Friday, 7 October 2011 Abstract never fades. Rainbow never fails to fade. Clouds cannot be touched. - Saturday, 8 October 2011 Wish I had words for Birthday Storytelling Day but I don't know much. - Thursday, 13 October 2011 A dog in each race? Not you, we all know you have Dogs in every race. - Saturday, 15 October 2011 Others say, will, won't but I always tend to think, no attention paid. - Monday, 17 October 2011 Small is relative. Miniature is not small, merely smaller than. - Tuesday, 18 October 2011 As much as you can, as often as you have strength, for slower will come. - Wednesday, 19 October 2011 Checking out the list of people who need lesson and I am on it. - Thursday, 27 October 2011< What is not to like? But that beautiful smile is what I remember. - Friday, 28 October 2011 Helping everyone, if you never help just one, is a sham pretence. 1000 haiku countdown to Chambers Stevens' 50th birthday,who posted on Facebook: "It is a 1000 days until I am 50 years old. Wonder what I could accomplish in a 1000 days if I put my mind, body and soul into it?" I said I could write a haiku every day for a thousand days. On the very first day of Chambers' thousand days I wish us both well. - Wednesday, 14 September 2011, day 1 On the second day more reflecting and planning. The first step is past. - Thursday, 15 September 2011, day 2< Actors need three Be's: Be prepared, Be inspired, and Be in the right place. - Friday, 16 September 2011, day 3 Find four-leaf clover? If glint in the eye high hope. If searching time waste. - Saturday, 17 September 2011, day 4 Avoid unsenses: Blindness, deafness, stench, blandness, and numbness. - Sunday, 18 September 2011, day 5 Great performances have actors who disappear beneath characters. - Monday, 19 September 2011, day 6 I see what you see when you have persuaded me I can trust your eyes. - Tuesday, 20 September 2011, day 7 Words describe action, words expose motivation, words reveal oneself. - Wednesday, 21 September 2011, day 8 A great play makes one see oneself in a new way and change one's outlook. - Thursday, 22 September 2011, day 9< Imagine new worlds either crowded by much or outlined by little. - Friday, 23 September 2011, day 10 Structure based on facts, if the facts are not well known, must be emphasized. - Saturday, 24 September 2011, day 11 Fire-spitting fingers better be followed up by fantastic acting. - Sunday, 25 September 2011, day 12 When all is absurd, the most ordinary thing catches attention. - Monday, 26 September 2011, day 13 If the choices are: success or satisfaction, reject the question. - Tuesday, 27 September 2011, day 14 Responses from some who see you create a role, will be surprises. - Wednesday, 28 September 2011, day 15 How far can one move and still stay within the lines? That far suffices. - Thursday, 29 September 2011, day 16 Show other people: fire of youth, stings of aging, and undying dreams. - Friday, 30 September 2011, day 17 How without meaning to tell the porch ignorant: Put it on the porch. - Saturday, 1 October 2011, day 18 Silence and stillness, alike yet unalike wait to join or dismiss. - Sunday, 2 October 2011, day 19 Life is piles and holes. If you want impressive piles, you must dig deep holes. - Monday, 3 October 2011, day 20 Listeners need helps. Pauses are punctuation to help sort our thoughts. - Tuesday, 4 October 2011, day 21 Teach your eyes to say: Give me a part in your dream so each helps other. - Wednesday, 5 October 2011, day 22 All of us may think the world could be different but few will so live. - Thursday, 6 October 2011, day 23 Dance your way through life, smaller and greater movements, circles expanding. - Friday, 7 October 2011, day 24 Self deception is sun-less-shine unshadowing the road to nothing. - Saturday, 8 October 2011, day 25 No mirror existswhich can show imperfectionsone will not admit. - Sunday, 9 October 2011, day 26 Surrendered bodies are surfaces upon which to paint new visions. - Monday, 10 October 2011, day 27 The longest journey ends with but a single step just as so it starts. - Tuesday, 11 October 2011, day 28< Good first impressions falter and fade when followed by indifference. - Wednesday, 12 October 2011, day 29 Easy to be late but danger lurks in thinking never too early. - Thursday, 13 October 2011, day 30 Ends contrived or not, if planned may still go awry, if chaos go well. - Friday, 14 October 2011, day 31 Judgment and mercy, two sides of one coin buying our expectations. - Saturday, 15 October 2011, day 32 Experience kills when extremes are too strong and moderation fails. - Sunday, 16 October 2011, day 33 Water is your friend. Dehydration waits, silent, masking its symptoms. - Monday, 17 October 2011, day 34 Travelers choices: food most like what have at home, food before untried. - Tuesday, 18 October 2011, day 35 When you are shown much, do not neglect one who has only one lesson. - Wednesday, 19 October 2011, day 36 Walk humbly so that good intentions precede you around the corner. - Thursday, 20 October 2011, day 37 Never relaxing distorts mind, tears down body, and deadens spirit. - Friday, 21 October 2011, day 38 Always be prepared and be seen to be prepared so doors stay open. - Saturday, 22 October 2011, day 39 Root out negatives so those you impress don't say, wait, there is something. - Sunday, 23 October 2011, day 40 Love or do not love, but do not fall victim to an almost loving. - Monday, 24 October 2011, day 41 Faulted for thinking? No one knows what others think but they can blame you. - Tuesday, 25 October 2011, day 42 Some people can have only one friend at a time. Do not be that friend. - Wednesday, 26 October 2011, day 43 *After this came to mind, I thought about changing "have" to "own." If "own" means more to you, feel free to use that version. Rain is a great gift but those with many faucets take it for granted. - Thursday, 27 October 2011, day 44 When you teach robots, do not forget they may know how to master you. - Friday, 28 October 2011, day 45~Say what needs be said but needless further comment may seem insulting. - Saturday, 29 October 2011, 46 When least expected, something awaking within will push out new growth. - Sunday, 30 October 2011, day 47 If others must change, we love our own reflection and not the others. - Monday, 31 October 2011, day 48The Next Earlier Robert Stone. Haiku: Haiku written July- August 2011 by Robert Stone This story was posted on 2011-11-06 18:54:28
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