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Best Poems Written by W. Blaine Wheeler

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Spring Haiku

Emerging just now
Hyacinths joyfully spread
Their lovely fragrance.

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Autumn

A multi-hued leaf fell slowly
        next to me
        Lenau-like
As I stood watching its demise.
I did not ask the lonely leaf
        if it loved
        the gentle dying
        of autumn.
Perhaps the leaf had enjoyed
        its birth
        and growth
        through summer
While it survived fierce
        storms
Testing its full strength
And now wanted nothing
        more
Than to die gently.

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Old Grandfather of the Teas

You have told me the story many times before,
                  old grandfather
                  of the teas;
        but I will listen again
        as you carefully pour
        the hot green fragrance
And slowly tell me of the morning long ago,
                  old grandfather
                  of the teas,
        when your last daughter
        was born and died
        as the heavens
Over Nagasaki disappeared and ashes rained
On your home and your wife and your baby,
                  old grandfather
                  of the teas.