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Will you

Will you // I have cut my heart / into petals, strewn them / at your feet. // Walk to me. //

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ellensymons Haiku 2 Comments Dec 2, 2020 1 Minute

Naked trees pull

Naked trees pull thegrey sky close---November's clothdressing their bare limbs ~~~

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ellensymons Haiku 2 Comments Nov 3, 2020Mar 31, 2021 1 Minute

Pillars of rain

While my background brain sorts out the best order for the chapters of my novel-in-progress, I am returning to haiku. What better place than the lake during a late-summer storm, to roll words around the elements.

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Ice cracks across sloughs

A late-winter haiku

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ellensymons Haiku Leave a comment Feb 26, 2018 1 Minute

It’s that I’m missing you

From time to time, a poem I wrote years ago–like this one–seems exactly pertinent to the current moment.

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It’s that I’m missing

you: an empty cavern where

my full heart once was.

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ellensymons Body, Haiku Leave a comment Jun 9, 2017Jun 9, 2017 1 Minute

but on the trees

Snow falls heavy, thick, but on the trees pink buds, tiny, wait ~~~

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ellensymons Haiku, Wind and water, rock and tree Leave a comment Feb 12, 2017 1 Minute

Birds, frogs, grasses

Birds, frogs, grasses: Sudden riot of song -- Rain during drought. ~~~

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ellensymons Haiku 2 Comments Jul 3, 2016 1 Minute

The late March snowfall

The late March snowfall melts on Sunday: brown cows sprawl on matted grass

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ellensymons Haiku 4 Comments Mar 30, 2016Mar 30, 2016 1 Minute

Moonlit snow records

Moonlit snow records small creatures' escapades. Sun wipes the slate clean. ____________________

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ellensymons Haiku Leave a comment Mar 15, 2015 1 Minute

Bright star

Bright star pierces Cobalt sky: Half-moon hangs knife-sharp ____________________

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