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Ten Thousand Haiku

27 years of 17-syllable days

Tag Archives: five

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsen5, Christmas, Christmas tree, COVID-19, five, haiku, imagination, leaves, Light, pandemic, plants, poem, Poetry, sap, social distancing, sticky, thumb, tree sap, Trees, weight Leave a comment

Five-foot Christmas tree
Lighter than I’d imagined
Leaves sap on my thumb

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsen2, 5, animals, COVID-19, Dark, five, haiku, Horses, Kentucky, minutes, mosey, pandemic, pat, pats, poem, Poetry, social distancing, travel, two, white Leave a comment

In the dark, two white
Horses mosey over for
Five minutes of pats

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsenadorable, COVID-19, donuts, everyone in masks, five, haiku, Halloween, kids, love, pandemic, parenting, poem, Poetry, social distancing, string Leave a comment

Five three-year-olds try
Eating donuts off a string—
Halloween’s the best

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29 August 2020Calvin Olsenbridges, Calvin Olsen, COVID-19, five, haiku, hiking, mushrooms, nature, pandemic, parenting, plants, poem, Poetry, shimmer, soaking, social distancing, sweat Leave a comment

Hike with five bridges:
By the second we are soaked,
Mushroom tops shimmer

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26 February 2020Calvin Olsenbirds, cars, five, frolic, front, haiku, lawn, nature, pass, poem, Poetry, robins, stiff, watch Leave a comment

Five robins frolic
On the front lawn, one keeps watch
(Stiffens when cars pass)

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26 February 2020Calvin Olsencover, five, haiku, pile, poem, Poetry, RIP, sand, sandbags, seams, spill, walkway Leave a comment

Pile of five sandbags
Under a covered walkway:
One ripped seam spills far

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7 November 2019Calvin Olsenback, fall, five, Gas, gasoline, haiku, leaf, leaf blowers, leaves, lines, moving, poem, Poetry, smell, Street Leave a comment

Smell of gasoline:
Five back-mounted leaf blowers
Move a street-wide line

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7 November 2019Calvin Olsenclear, five, haiku, minutes, Moon, poem, Poetry, radio, rise, tower, yellow Leave a comment

Yellow moon rises:
Five minutes later it’s cleared
Radio towers

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26 April 2019Calvin Olsenbicycle, bike, biking, deer, eye contact, five, haiku, nature, poem, Poetry, Road, roots, shaking, still, thin, turning, under Leave a comment

Under-road roots shake
My bike—I turn: five thin deer
Make eye contact, still

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11 September 2018Calvin Olsenbeaks, birds, chicken, chickens, crickets, crowd, death, doom, doors, fat, five, haiku, house sitting, insects, meeting, nature, poem, Poetry, Wood Leave a comment

Chickens crowd wood doors
Five fat cricket-like insects
Meet their doom at beaks

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