Monday, January 13, 2003

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Today I pass the time reading
a favorite haiku,
saying the few words over and over.
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Billy Collins
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Joseph Pedulla 25 October 2016

Small, small, small ideas, said with small, small, small language. Be soft, Billy- oh, so soft and easy! Don't dare challenge anyone with anything but soft and small and small and soft! Puke, puke, puke.

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Ratnakar Mandlik 24 August 2016

Wonderful flight of imagery coupled with fantasy. Thanks for sharing it here.

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Jasbir Chatterjee 24 August 2016

Lovely poem; I like the last part the best, It will waste away to nothing, nothing but stars in the sky, and I will have a few nights to myself, a little time to rest my jittery pen. Congrats on being poet of the day!

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Ian Fraser 20 July 2011

I read this poem over and over. I still can't feel like a bell or a moth even. Does that mean I am a dog? I know I bark a lot. Maybe I am Kafka's beetle. No I wouldnt want to be that. I think I'd rather stand by the window Pretending to be nothing.

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Janet Hawtin 01 May 2011

lovely turning of the pieces

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Maria Pataleto 13 January 2009

I love the comparison to 'the perfect grape'.

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Kripa Gurung 20 September 2007

it is nice. yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyes

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Dylan Da Man 04 June 2006

ohhhhhh yeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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