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Ten Thousand Haiku

27 years of 17-syllable days

Monthly Archives: January 2017

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24 January 2017Calvin Olsenbaton, dancing, haiku, happiness, homeless, imagination, legs, makeshift, man, Morning, pocked, poem, Poetry, slow, slow motion, twirling Leave a comment

Homeless man twirling
A makeshift baton, pocked legs
Slow-mo happiness

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24 January 2017Calvin Olsenbeam, bodies, drawn, haiku, horizon, illumination, Light, poem, Poetry, round, Sun, windows Leave a comment

Horizontal beams
Illuminate round windows
Bodies drawn to light

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24 January 2017Calvin Olsenart, baritone, crescendo, duet, haiku, Music, one, poem, Poetry, singing, song, space, sway Leave a comment

Baritone duet
One swaying in crescendo
Other keeping space

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24 January 2017Calvin Olsenanimals, cars, Dark, driving, field, Fog, full, haiku, headlights, hiding, Horses, over, poem, Poetry, thick, weather Leave a comment

Fog thickens over
A dark field full of horses
Hiding from headlights

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24 January 2017Calvin Olsencoarse, Concrete, date night, fill, fingers, food, frozen yogurt, grip, haiku, melting, poem, Poetry, Rain, stroll, sweet, waffle cone, waffles, walking, Water, wet Leave a comment

Stroll on wet concrete
Fingers grip coarse waffle cone
Filling with sweet melt

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19 January 2017Calvin Olsenarchitecture, bells, bird, birds, brick, buildings, campus, chain, haiku, North Carolina, off, on, poem, Poetry, shake, sound, Trees, trembling, UNC, weight Leave a comment

Chain shakes with bird weight
Bells bounce off the brick buildings
Not one tree trembles

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18 January 2017Calvin Olsenawesome, bodies, circle, construction, construction worker, Dark, deep, exercise, haiku, lunge, Morning, poem, Poetry, stiff, stretch, stretching, Work Leave a comment

Construction workers
Circled to stretch in the dark
Stiff bodies, deep lunge

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17 January 2017Calvin Olsenart, blue, Book, Books, brick, campus, clutch, Dark, devil, Duke, Duke University, education, Fog, haiku, hand, metal, poem, Poetry, reading, tin, turret, University, weather, weathervane Leave a comment

Dark brick turrets, fog
Blue devil weather vane, book
Clutched in his tin hand

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16 January 2017Calvin Olsenalbumen, black, breakfast, cooking, egg, egg yolk, eggs, fluorescence, food, fry, frying, great word, haiku, hard, heat, hungry, kitchen, pan, past, poem, Poetry, soft, spill, yellow, yolk Leave a comment

Fluorescent egg yolk
Spills past its own albumen
Hardens in black heat

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16 January 2017Calvin Olsenage, art, ballerina, ballet, beauty, choreography, dance, dancer, haiku, memory, old, past, poem, Poetry, reminisce, steps, stories, success, time Leave a comment

Old ballerina
Reminiscing on her past
Choreography

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