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Haiku 01

In the coolness
of the empty sixth-month sky...
the cuckoo's cry.

Submitted: Thursday, January 01, 2004


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  • Esther Hudson (11/25/2008 11:46:00 AM)

    so good. you are a good poet.

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  • Dimitris(Jimmy) Psachos (6/17/2007 8:13:00 AM)

    Speechless...a worthy descendant of the great haiku pieces! Profound and expressive, the cuckoo is probably his despair to the supposed assurance of recent happy events. It presents the real, empty, shallow attitude of(his?) world.

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