Autumnal thought

Were I a maple,
people would flock to see me
radiant in old age.

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Dem postal non-delivery blue-hoos..

Parcel lost in post!
fortunate to be alive
and live without it..

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Haemorrhoid Ode - for Herbert

vets help lame dogs
over stiles, while
others doctor
dogged piles

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Pale yellow primroses
hiding in the undergrowth
only seen by a few

haiku by Michael Shepherd
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Heidegger meets Shankara

Beyond all being
is that Being –
that, whose Being
is our being.

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Self-respect - To the Troubled

'Your only enemy

is yourself'...

Easy to say?

Prove me wrong.

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Poem for Tara, by request

I may be
dyslexic

but I know
not to

carp
over someone else's

parc

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To Kobayashi Issa

A bath when you're born;
a bath when you die;
between, a long river

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National Split Pea Soup Week
has passed its midpoint
without incident

haiku by Michael Shepherd
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A humble poet, or a proud?

Three thousand haikai!
Teishitsu's second thoughts
left only thirty..

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