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Jamie
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0 posted 2000-12-19 07:14 PM


The Seven Deadly Sins


Pride

Lovely winter snow
Metaphoric purity
Dirt is still beneath


Greed

Spring brings forth beauty
For each of us to behold
Less is seen each year


Envy

Children love the snow
More than a warm summer day
The sun  smiles and shines


Anger

Vibrant fall colors
Flow down from each mountain peak
Until cross winds come


Lust

I have no season
No lovers fires in the spring
I consume year round


Gluttony

Winter wanted more
And so stayed on into Spring
Flowers pay the cost


Sloth

Seeds were sewn in Spring
Idle eyes watched as they grew
Who will harvest what?



© Copyright 2000 Jamie Patterson - All Rights Reserved
Dark Angel
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1 posted 2000-12-19 07:20 PM


Dear Jamie, you have created excellent Haiku's my friend, you have captured the Seven Deadly Sins perfectly.

Loved every single one

Great work dear  

Maree

p.s - it is great to read you again  

"If my words could blanket the skies
and fill every corner and crevice of
this earth, still this wouldn't be enough"
"Maree Russo"


Suzanne Arlene
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2 posted 2000-12-19 08:12 PM


They were so good . I enjoyed them all. It has been snowing today.Big fluffy snow.I guess i enjoyed envy the best.
Suzanne

wordancer
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3 posted 2000-12-19 08:24 PM


Each sin, perfectly captured...excuse me while I go and take another look at the layer meanings that are there.

"Come...dance with me, in my world of words."

shira
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4 posted 2000-12-20 03:53 PM


These haiku are lovely - very nice metaphors... I liked them.
Severn
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5 posted 2000-12-20 04:02 PM


Jamie....loving the lust lol

these are great...but I think Lust was especially well done my friend...

HUGS

nice to read you again...

K

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6 posted 2000-12-20 06:03 PM


This was one of those WOW reads. Nothing else to say but a WOW



I was born myself, raised myself, and will continue to be myself. The world will just have to adjust.

I hate your socks. I'd like to burn them!


pegasus111
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7 posted 2000-12-20 06:54 PM


these are excellent..haven't read your work before..looking forward to more.

the woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep, and many miles to go before I sleep...Frost


kcsgrandma
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8 posted 2000-12-20 11:45 PM


Very well done!  I don't think I can pick out a favorite.  

To love another person is to see the face of God.
- Les Miserables

Marilyn

Dennis L. White
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9 posted 2000-12-21 02:15 PM


Prometheus,
  Brilliant collection of haiku and SO creative to frame them this way!
Dennis :^)

Moonbeams radiate
When the veiling cloud has passed
Playful shadows dance

Dennis L. White :^)


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10 posted 2000-12-21 04:13 PM


I loved these esspecially the way you compared them to nature

Life has got to chnage,
Nothing stays the same,
Soon it will be time,
For me to move on.


kaile
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11 posted 2000-12-22 09:27 AM


i ditto the rest..its certainly a pleasure to read such unique work...

i loved this line lots:Less is seen each year...expresses lots in few words...

Honeybee
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12 posted 2000-12-22 08:46 PM



Wow - very clever and well written! I loved these  

Take care,
Melissa


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Jamie
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13 posted 2000-12-23 11:23 PM


I thank you all for the kind and most generous comments. Merry Christmas Everyone.

Jamie
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14 posted 2000-12-23 11:23 PM


oops- double post

[This message has been edited by Prometheus (edited 12-23-2000).]

ellie LeJeune
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15 posted 2000-12-24 11:02 AM


Beautiful Haiku wrappped in deep, thought provoking analogy....ingenious!  Ellie

Belief is a truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.

Joseph Fort Newton



2dalimit
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16 posted 2000-12-24 05:43 PM


Congratulations. This is one of the best Haikus I have ever read. I am truly humbled.
Melton

Jamie
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17 posted 2000-12-26 09:56 AM


ellie and Melton- Careful, you may make me have to go out and buy bigger hats. Thanks so much.


Jamie

Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito. - Virgil.
"Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely".


Poet deVine
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18 posted 2000-12-29 12:28 PM


Wonderful sir!!! These are great..seems that Haikus are a specialty of yours..and they are a special treat for us!    
CitiZen-One
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19 posted 2000-12-29 01:24 PM


Prometheus is the god of fore-sight, who could see into the future. His vision was precient. You have reflected in the fire of his soul, by bringing forth the wisdom of the seasons pouring out from those 7 deadly sins.
Munda
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20 posted 2000-12-30 05:10 AM


These are excellent Prometheus !
Jamie
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21 posted 2000-12-31 09:32 AM


Sharon, Citizen, Munda I am so glad you found it to your liking. Thanks.--jamie


Jamie

Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito. - Virgil.
"Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely".


JOY 14
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22 posted 2000-12-31 03:22 PM


You really captured the sins in nature. Great job.

Joy

kaile
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23 posted 2002-07-21 11:59 PM


bumping this up so that i can read this again later...
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