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secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2015-08-05 09:43 AM

In sunlight
and shadow
from where
to where
dragonfly !

trees laced
in morning
mist
the grass
with jewels
of dew
Summer
dawn

lonely woods
shadow of
a stranger

a loon's cry
suddenly
missing
the dead

all the world
of Summer
floats in this
lake of dreams

Distant evening
bells
then only
cicada calls
Summer passing

My love for you
was the morning
  star

In both lightning
  and the thunder
there is enlightenment

Late Summer sunset
clouds peacefully resting
  on shade mountain

              --- b. e. adams (8/3/2015)

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2015-08-05 01:40 PM

Ahhh . . . Beautifully written . . . haikoids, Bruce. I checked out haikoids. Couldn't find much on it except someone by the name of Gus Ferguson invented haikoid. I have failed to find a description of how the haikoid is written. In your poem, although beautifully written, I realized there were many stanza's with different syllables. Doesn't look like something I would get into although, as I said, I liked your poem was received well by me.

~*~ When they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

secondhanddreampoet
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2 posted 2015-08-05 03:16 PM

Each part of this is a separate (and unrelated to the others) 'mini-poem' ... this type of Chinesesque/Japanesesque
Zen poetry is Haiku-like (but without the exact 5/7/5 syllable count, etc.) hence the name "Haik-oid" (they're Haiku-like
... but not quite real Haiku).

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

3 posted 2015-08-27 02:31 AM

I think this type of poetry is some of your best Bruce.
Ida

secondhanddreampoet
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4 posted 2015-08-27 08:30 AM

Thanks, Ida !

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

5 posted 2015-08-28 09:23 PM

I can imagine you sitting on the edge of the woods as you write or paint...james

secondhanddreampoet
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6 posted 2015-08-28 11:25 PM

Thanks JM !

There is no greater 'cathedral' than a forest (particularly a Sequoia forest)

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