If I vanish a few days from Wednesday it’s cos I am in hospital, but don’t worry. TERRY.
ff % 243 Group haiku. (June 2005)
bf=blackie fortuna, EC=Empty Chairs, LP=Lord Pineapple, SLM=Sophie Lucy Morgan (aged 10), RTT=The Reverend Tobias Trontby, Vicar of Shawthwaite, TW=Tiffy Witherington.
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beautiful sunset
and no camera!
(LP)
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the morning paper
a murdered child
i go back and pray
(RTT)
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just one star
then clouds…
I go back indoors
(SLM)
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I open my eyes:
in the sunlight
a swarm of sneers
(bf)
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now so slow
will not scare
the crows in the field!
(LP)
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my video broken
I stare at the clouds
(TW)
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I can feel you
warm sun
I can feel you!
(EC)
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cucumber slice
falls from sandwich:
ant soon there
(LP)
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the vegetarian
hurries past
the butchers
(SLM)
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no longer seeing
the milky way:
my old eyes
(LP)
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so cold
as I remember
her death
(LP)
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Beethoven’s ninth…
I cry myself
to sleep
(LP)
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Terry Cuthbert. June 2005
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Ps Sorry about the last post, it vanished! My stupidity! Thanks to Ben got the post back but not your lovely comments.
Comments (47)
Terry, Wonderful, the lst three especially touched me -Margot
maybe, but at least you get paid.
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It’s not always your fault iif the post vanishs! WoW! Ididn’t know that Xanga has a recycle been for us! Learn something new every day!!!! K
That’s recycle “bin” not been …. time for sleep bye k
thank you LORD for ur constant non relenting criticisms for over a year now ~ somehow i think i would not have developed without your acidy cold critical words dripping and running as sllowly as U scroll over my words i am hopes u will not let up as it allows me to practice my patience & tolerence with flying foreign objects & propells me foward to be the most famous writer in History ~ next to u of course LOL love u ~ u know i do magi ps i am looking foward to a bit of face to face critism if u can get carried back to ole virginny by someone always angel beckon/magi
ps i have real poetry too that is my ministerial comic strip i just started ~ keeping up with the Rev of course luv magi
just repost it terry and you will get those comments back too. as for these shorts i love them all but the first one is so me, always a sunset without a camera. i am glad you stopped by, i know i haven’t left you many comments lately but the life of a drunken monk is heavy when one has a bad liver and doc’s say i shouldn’t drink anymore. but what he doesn’t know won’t hurt him lol. i do read your poems lord just sometimes i am lost as how to comment other then just a wow or speechless awe.
hope your doin good
and i know the sunwill shine again and i hope this time you have a camera lol
It’Mor
oh yeah before i for get i know you read them as two poems but the last one was just one poem, it’s jsut long winded like the me. lol
ps thats a cute pic of you as a child.
These are wry, tongue-in-cheek takes on haiku! I’m really enjoying them… xo
This is a wonderful combination of words …
I DO NOT hurry by the butchers…I thumb my nose at them whilst passing!
Lovely haiku(s)
No offence to Brenda, but these are not “tongue-in-cheek” these are akin to real haiku, unlike most of the 5-7-5 rubbish that comes from America.
I do not profess to be a great haikuist, but I know the haiku, I have even studied it in Japan.
Wonderful all! So glad that persuasion caused fruition! Keep them going, sweet man!! <3
I guess everyone had to chip in his/her 2cents on this one! *smile*
You truly are a genius…
I love you…GFW
Can’t remeber what I wrote on the one that vanished, that little boy looks like a small you .I presume it is you. I see on Little Egypt’s site ,you were born on the same day I was married 8th September ,trouble is I am not sure I know your age but presume you were not born in 1945. Cheers marj
As always enjoyed the Haiku, My Haiku for the day:
I treat you with love
Care, concern
Still you crash and BlueScreen
Very gorgeous group haikus…. let’s all forget about the dumb rules
I really like the last 2….makes me cold reading them!
Hope you had a good weekend, LordP
leaving a stalk of dark rose,
-Elle
Hello , I have seen you post here and there and decided to come by . I enjoyed all the haikus . Love the one about the broekn video and cucumber falling from the sandwich .
Peace and Love
The first one, about no camera, seems to fit my mode lately. Now, I try to be ready for everything that may come my way.
Such talent that is all I can say
wish I could even do a little of what you do and I would be happy. I like the photo of you as a youngster very cute. Thanks for visiting and take care enjoy the rest of the week. 
Angela
Nicely done.
RYC: I think the Sarahs ate Toto. He WAS rather catt-ish.
But all came through, and on this side of the rainbow, I am much afraid.
Haikus are great, but why don’t you have a english name for it?
The sunset is better without a camera, much nicer.
minor details, minor details…besides, I imagine a phoenix being reborn as a small baby phoenix…it wouldn’t just be immediately full grown, now would it? My knowledge of mythological creatures is getting a bit rusty, I’m afraid. But the poem is actually about a person, so I guess it really doesnt matter.
-Jos-
Excellent poems. I will have to work on escaping the fixed form I’m stuck in when I write haiku. Part of me has to do it in the fixed form of 5-7-5. Time to break out of the box…
In my area, people know a lot about the God of religion, so when they say God loves you, there is a lack of conviction, because they don’t believe that God loves them. It lacks the warmth of belief. Also, to me, though it is something they may mean and believe when they say it, it is something I already know. I have a problem opening up to people, and may be projecting my own weakness on those around me, which is why I need that statement to be so much more personal. This is a less than perfect world, but my heart demands that I cling to the ideal. As such, I have to be willing to say I love a person. And that isn’t easy around here. What I and others in this area need to know more about concerns the God of relationships. Overall, we are just too impersonal. I feel that deep inside me, and I need to break out of it.
There are times when I don’t want to believe in God or in Satan or any other diety. I struggled with that 15 years ago, made my decision to believe, and it has made my life a challenge in ways I can’t describe. Things I want to forget and have, but more importantly, there are things I want to forgive and move on, but haven’t. It’s times like that when I wish both parties would just go away and leave me alone. But I always end up coming down on God’s side. I don’t believe in eternal hellfire or purgatory as most Christians and Catholics believe. It goes against the nature of a loving God. I believe in the punishment of a just God, and I balance the paradoxes in a way that have me coming back to Him every day. I could never worship the god of Islam or the Inquisition. I just know in Whom I believe. And as such I become this idealist who hates compromise, and who has a rough time loving people without feeling like I am paying nothing more than lipservice to “the Cause.”
We all want something real, and we don’t want nightmares to be reflected in our reality.
Have a great day.
Jim
Magic…xanga magic, my friend…
five, seven, five???? Isn’t that haiku counts? perhaps different counts for different folks? Hmmm
Winnie, only Americans write haiku that way!
Don’t you hate it when Xanga loses a post? LOL!
Great haikus – - you are all a talented bunch! Thanks again for the kind words. I hope to update tomorrow.
Have a great evening and I’ll talk to you again soon!
I like these…..have you ever written a shadorma? That is the spanish version of haiku…I can’t remember the syllable count offhand but I do know it consists of 6 lines. I like writing those. I’m not too much into the regular 5-7-5 form of haiku.
P.S.: Thanks for your concern…I am fine. Just got overloaded with obligations and had no time to be on Xanga or even online. Catching up now though. *whew*
I love the idea of haikus in different voices. It makes you realize that the moment and its details depends on the observer. Fabulous!
hi terry.
thanks for your lovely comment. i quite enjoyed doing that riff on chicago and am happy that you liked it. it was trying to get at something really, really important about the city that a casual observer driving through might miss and that would repay a little time with a giant leap in the ability to “see.” two of america’s most seminal architects, louis sullivan and frank loyd wright, hale from here, though i didn’t cover either of them in that post. if you are interested say the word and i will chase info, visual and otherwise, down. they are responsible not only for big buildings, but also for influencing styles of domestic arcitecture. there is a frank loyd wright house about 7 blocks north of me and the only single family house between here and the beach a block away is influenced by his designs.
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Hey LP:
I just wanted you to know that I am no longer posting on Annies Snapshots anymore. Annies_Life is my new site now. Please UNSUB to my old site, but please you are more than welcomed to SUB to my new site. Take care and have a great week!
your profile picture is really cute.
you and haikus : no doubt.
beautiful sunset
and no camera!
hah. what a bummer.
Haiku’s are always so beautiful when read aloud. They are also pretty to look at but I did not want to sound so dumb back there. Sorry! But that is my personal opinion on it all. Take care!
I hadn’t planned on coming to xanga today, but I’m glad that I did. Please, at your convenience, check out Fairy_Child’s site. In particular, the ballad titled The Whaler’s Bay Gypsy. She has other works there as well, some poetry, some short story, that I believe you will find of interest.
So much that I do on a computer is done at the public library. They have a policy that forbids chatrooms, and I don’t have the money right now to do anything with Instant Messenger or other IM type services. But I agree. We should chat some time.
Have a great day, my friend.
Jim
What? Me worry, Terry? Not a chance.
Well, maybe James won’t worry, but I will—-I always worry about things like this. Hope all goes well, Terry. Don’t want anything to happen to prevent your trip!!!!
Love the haikus—again. Never had thought too much about haikus before, but now enjoy the simplicity and completeness of them.
have a comfortable stint in the hospital…
Cool.. yeah and I’m wondering what Haikus means also.. oh and thanks for the comment
This means no more Raps on my site.. which is fine by me..
Alexis receives praise from the great LordPineapple? I am truly honored! Thank you so much for dropping by. Out of curiosity, who referred you? I’m assuming it was Jim (WordWarrior39) but I’m curious as to whether or not it was someone else.
Thank you again!
-Alexis
Too many words
to fit into
this form
Hospital and worry always go together to me. Hope all is well. I like this many-voiced post. I really don’t have to look at the initials very often to tell who wrote these.
I like numbers 1 & 6.
I wish you will get out of the hospital very soon.
Take care.
*Notices Jim’s comment just five above mine.* My powers of observation never cease to disapoint me.
disappoint*
Erm, yes, this is Fairy_Child, by the way. And I promise I’m done bothering you now.