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The Harbor

The Harbor

                                                         A pelican sits
                                                 atop a pierpost dozing
                                                ships moor for the night

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Terry O'Leary

Date: 4/29/2012 5:15:00 PM

Another nice one... If I see enough of them, maybe I'll be brave enough to try... Terry

Terry L. Allen
Date: 4/29/2012 8:53:00 PM

Terry to start off easy it's 5 syllables in the first line 7 in the second line and 5 in the third either 1&2 or 2&3 need to make a sentence and the odd one is to be a phrase obvious that it is by its self. The phrase should seem unattached but is obscurely.

Kash Poet

Date: 4/21/2012 12:38:00 AM

Thanks for reading my haiku.Yes traditional haiku usually stick to 5/7/5 and with a nature element.But you can also do it with any syllables from 10 to 17(total) and also without some nature element:)

Terry L. Allen
Date: 4/29/2012 8:57:00 PM

I was trying to help another Terry but I am not as well adversed at this as you. Would it be ok for me to send him to you for help in learning to do Haiku? I have been reading over our exchanges. You know you really are patient and kind man. Huggs TLee

Kash Poet

Date: 4/20/2012 1:20:00 PM

Good one.Enjoyed.May I request you to read my haiku.........

Terry L. Allen
Date: 4/20/2012 11:33:00 PM

Glad you liked it and I would be glad to read your Haiku. If there is more than one will I know which one you mean?

Elliott Bowe The Drunken Poet

Date: 4/15/2012 12:34:00 AM

awesome write..

Terry L. Allen
Date: 4/15/2012 2:25:00 AM

Hey Elliott. I was wondering if you were going to stop by. Glad you liked it. Thanks friend for taking the time to review.

Charles Henderson

Date: 4/14/2012 11:54:00 PM

This one very good. Do you remember the movie where Kevin Costner was a golfer. And in the club house his girl friend bet that Kevin could put a ball on the floor and hit it out of the door over a handrail, but below the roof overhang and knock a pelican off of a piling on the other side of the club house pond. That is what I saw when i read it.

Terry L. Allen
Date: 4/15/2012 12:18:00 AM

You are talking about Tin Cup I think and I hadn't thought about that when I wrote this. I didn't think now that you mention it that pelicans hung out anywhere except by the sea. In fact that is why I chose this bird in this Haiku to denote that it was a sea harbor.