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Why I Love Thee?/ By Carl Sadakichi Hartmann/ Why I love thee?/ Ask why the seawind wanders,/ Why the shore is aflush with the tide,/ Why the moon through heaven meanders;/ Like seafaring ships that ride/ On a sullen, motionless deep;/ Why the seabirds are fluttering the strand/ Where the waves sing themselves to sleep/ And starshine lives in the curves of the sand!/

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Review Aug 4

Japan born famous haikai -ist' ventures into a rhymed abab double quatrain for a bio like descriptive of love..an impossible task..yet the nature of personal love being so compelling even we less talented poets are not immune to put stylus to screen
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