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Haiku 3

Water and fishes
She explore wayward visions
Immersed, then relaxed

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My Family, Haiku 4

Mom's angry again
Bourbon is more loved than I
it makes her happy

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Fears

Legend has it that one fateful day, a Man, overwhelmed by seeing the forest closely, thought he had no reason to venture into its depths, as long as he left far enough.

That assumption was converted from the spot, in his only reason, and forgot the duty and the hobby, devoting all his breath to run.

So He ran year after year, in the vain hope to stay away from trees. Unaware of existence, like a snow-covered island surrounded by thick forests accretive inexorably, until there remains no island ... until there is only density ...

The man fled, like a blind man without realizing that pursuing only that which frightened him so much: death.

The man not only lost his life, which by itself is worthless, but also everything else.

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Estado Embrionario

Tocando puertas; una vez más, 
Agrietando los fragmentos existentes, 
Ahí; no llueve sobre el mar. 

Alzando coros de preguntas, 
Indigestando; nacen los sentimientos, 
Lágrimas, sutiles notas en el aire. 

Buscando; café en la cuidad, 
Ahogando en silencio las respuestas, 
Abriendo rocas; desesperado. 

Uniendo instantes olvidados; 
Lejos del fuego sofocante, 
Ignorando gritos; constantemente. 

Eliminado al Ego de alimento, 
Tacto elocuente, inalcanzable; 
Encontrando estrellas en tu ojos. 

Destellos de nada; Absolutamente, 
Aparentes reflejos de sol; callado, 
Esperando por ti. Una vez más.

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Descends and Flies Back

clouds give birth rain drops that matured into extinction against the lake.

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Haiku 2

Sleeping, work's not done,
lying on an atom bomb,
seems pretty to me.

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Delirium

As irreverent as always, there she was, following me everywhere - it is no longer possible to get some relaxation without having her near me? -. She bothers me and honestly causes fear with as little as her appear around me. She is a burden,  grayish and slippery, as the worst of demons; elongated, chameleonic, tenebrous heaviness dark. Moving at my cadence, a bodyguard who had not paid. Vainly I try to flee, traveled to remote and desolate sites, cold places, and the chilling sensation to feel her behind me, soaked my feet. Haunting, spying from the very core. And that helplessness of knowing that you can not hide forever consumed me. It is unavoidable. I tried to get used to her presence, understand her existence, reasoned with and lose the fear. Without being able to thereby live in a fear rather founded. There are hidden my biggest secrets, my shameful desires, words I never dared to say... Tired and sick, quicken determination without choice, prepared a frontal attack. I no longer endured more time her daring. Anyone could interpret and use her against me, reveal my treasures, my ideas, such scraps of life. Decided to took distance, I climbed to the roof of the building, never felt so alive until I saw her so arrogant and inhuman, taunting me on the wall. -Now or never,  I told myself-. I jumped over her, I was tired of being a coward. Gradually my body was close and closer, faster ... I saw terror in her eyes so I smiled instinctively before striking with all my strength and finally to fuse with her... on the asphalt, and then nothing but darkness and calm. 
I had beaten, had defeated my shadow.
JTK. 01/Apr/2016

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Haiku 1

wish for a moment,
stop loving, forget about
that I'm just human.

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Haiku 5

Just as the rain sings
Drop by drop I can feel you
Oh dear, I hear you

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Haiku 6

west wind in the sand
reminds to everybody 
that I smile with ease

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