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Haiku - For Contest

nostalgia
mosaics fractured vision
leaded doubts


5/27/2016

((first post -- 1/25/2014))

submitted to – Glass Art – Haiku – Poetry contest
sponsor – SKAT A

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Jan Allison

June 6, 2016 at 5:50 AM

Dropping back with my congrats John:-) hugs Jan xx

Seosamh De Burca

June 5, 2016 at 8:09 PM

Congrats on your win. Well done.

Edward Ebbs

June 5, 2016 at 4:39 PM

Good job john, congrats!

Sandra Haight

June 5, 2016 at 1:27 PM

A great Haiku, John. Congratulations on your placement! Sandra

Bl Devnath

June 5, 2016 at 10:46 AM

Congrats on your win with this beautiful haiku my lovely friend. Loved always, bl

John Lawless

June 5, 2016 at 12:00 PM

Thanks for reading and commenting BL

Andrea Dietrich

June 5, 2016 at 10:18 AM

this was and STILL is fantastic, John. Congrats in the top ten!

John Lawless

June 5, 2016 at 12:00 PM

Thanks again Andrea, I am still at odds with the Haiku world.

Richard Lamoureux

June 5, 2016 at 8:41 AM

Congrats on your win.;0)

John Lawless

June 5, 2016 at 12:00 PM

thanks Richard

Joanna Daniel

June 5, 2016 at 8:27 AM

Congratulations on your win, John:)

Karam Misra

June 4, 2016 at 11:30 PM

John, this is superb. Congratulations on your win. Feel should have been placed higher. All three lines beautifully knit. Leaded counts.Distorted nostalgia....... ~karam~

John Lawless

June 5, 2016 at 11:59 AM

thanks Miram for reading and commenting, it is appreciated.

Skat A

June 4, 2016 at 11:06 PM

John L, CONGRATULATION! On your awesome win. Stop by my latest blog "Objects Of Beauty" and celebrate your win if you'd like. This was a very enjoyable contest, a tough one to judge at the very end. Love **SKAT**

Andrea Dietrich

May 28, 2016 at 10:05 AM

A great modern form haiku. I asked which to use, traditional or modern and she didn't reply yet, so I am guessing this will do very nicely.

Andrea Dietrich

May 28, 2016 at 10:30 AM

what I meant to say just now is that YOURS does not do that WRONG way. I think you did the right way!!

Andrea Dietrich

May 28, 2016 at 10:29 AM

I did a blog recently on tanka. the modern ones as touted by the Tanka Society of america. They are very much like haiku and if you go read them, you can see the way haiku and tanka should be done, with that AHA line at the end! it's hard to get poets to see that. i have a difficult time getting juxtaposition too. Often I am just putting an ending that is a recap of what i just said. Many are doing that, and sadly, it's not the right way. Yours here does not do that.

John Lawless

May 28, 2016 at 10:14 AM

We shall see Andrea. I am at odds with the many variations on what constitutes a Haiku/Senryu. I'll have to check back with you on exactly what she wants