Best Hokku Poems

hid in my triad
is an ellipsis thought-pause-
where,what when,not why...

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A HOKKU

         I
Of Nature and man
What tragedy, sorrows wrought!
Wept, dawn cries its truth

        II
Autumn colors pale
White sidewalks heat mother earth
Sad, winds and morn's glow

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So Japanese
was
the Hokku

  'til the master
came into view

then via Haikai

 on
along  the way

Matsuo Munefusa
  aka
    Bashó
   mastered 
 haiku
a phonetical&cultural
 'onji' *(in sound symbols)
came to be

  traditionally
per·pen·dicu·lar
 as a single line
        in particular


now
HIKU * in English
  to me  or...

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lights weave through snowflakes 
teasing and twirling about 
distant stars dancing

a brilliant display
wearing only hand-me-downs
the moon steals the show

~FJ Thomas
01/01/2020...

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