Valedictory on a failed love-affair

No sorrow
Tomorrow

Keep grief
Brief

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To a Japanese poet

Haiku's wet ink
shines;
a warm heart

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Homage to Dorothy Parker

To laugh at life
wittily
among friends

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Too Much Self Criticism Can Be Stifling

this poem just
doesn't come off
because

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0354 Ode to Powdered Coffee

Desperate to get it;
usually regret it.

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And this for DR with thanks

moleskin britches

need luminous stitches

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0275 Reflection of an aged poet

As if
e v e r y year
hadn't been
a bonus..

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0009 A r t

and spoke with authority
about the never before

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0012 Basho on Robert Frost

Icy evening road
Lonely traveller

Good choice!

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A Kyoto garden in Spring

How wise
the cherry trees
to ignore the cameras!

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