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Haiku 2021 Part 7, #47-52

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 #47 The death card means change loss, grief, release, making way tears water roses #48 Spindle become thorn death softened to sleeping curse hate tempered by love #49 Hanuman leaping remembering his powers fly faithful hero #50 Love song to the barre faithful partner, always there strong, supportive, true #51 Everybody in  the sun-drenched park grinning just this place to play           Ela took this photo of the crocuses blanketing Cologne's botanical garden last weekend #52 Stuff my eyeballs with crocuses so I can see purple spring always

Haiku 2021 Part 6, #40-46

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 #40 Slipping train-to-train still feels romantic, carried here and there at will #41 What is contentment: slippery sense of rightness, completion, fulfilled #42 Quiet Karneval debauchery on the sly subdued last hurrah #43 Watch out! On a tear, prowling for blood, merciless carnivore feline #44 Are they really gone, those who have passed away from here and what is seen? #45 (inspired by a Sufi prayer) Let your mystery dawn in me, an ecstasy of humility  #46 A young German man with pink-wrapped bouquet, early romantic errand

Haiku 2021 Part 5, #33-39

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 #33 (inspired by Pat Flynn) You have to be the disaster before you can become the master #34 Knowing just "achtung," "Gesundheit," "Schadenfreude," "Doppelganger," "eins" #35 Arabesque, ode to architecture, lines stretching into far beyond #36 Feet planted, arching spine, heart thrust toward the sun, arms thrown wide open #37 Think only of Me Infinite They, all Being Think only of We #38 Do you truly hope ancestors watch us living, see earth from heaven? #39 Is there anything  so lovely as watching snow fall while warm inside

Haiku 2021 Part 4, #24-32

 #24 Paper napkins both collected, one all new, one with some gently used #25 "Tastes like more," we say, having gobbled the first piece of pie before us. #26 Friendly Germans helped when I feel at Ebertplatz, Kindle on the tracks #27 Cheese is alchemy fire, air, water, earth combined make delicious life #28 Grateful energy  the universe flows through me creating magic #29 Flames lick, flickering tinder snaps, embers sizzling, radiating heat #30 Gravity pulling atmosphere of air we breath earth stands, water flows #31 Sprachliche Koerper muss alles einfach zeigen alles still auf Zoom #32 A month of self-love in radical acceptance gifts, greatness, and flaws