Haiku Matching Contest • Human Affairs

(select your favorite for each pair and write it in the box below the pairs)
(then select favorites of those pairs, etc... until one is the top pick)

in his arms
that warming smell
safe and secure

50 years pass
we still kiss
for the first time
holding hands
I carefully
step over the fallen tree

scattered pink petals
surround my feet
I miss a step

 

 

 
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thinking of you
I burn the toast
black
summer quarrel
I use
her insults
yellow dandelion
I ask him
if he's happy
kitchen light flickers,
I turn my head
as you try to kiss me

 

 

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secret burden
she takes a walk
through the park

October frost
her birthday passes
in silent remembrance
bruised tailbone
the cherry pie
lands upside-down

in the jewelry store
my sister jumps
newly pierced ears

 

 

 
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first boat
of the season
dropped back into the lake
not a fish biting
except for both guys fishing
beside me

rush of water
I no longer know
the face staring back

foot asleep
I try to become aware...
of something else

© 2005, Randy Brooks • Millikin University
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