my story is my x was Rose
but for me she was slways red.
so if i find a rose again
she wil be cobalt blue....
why dont you try a haiku................
... just wanted to do that

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The eagle and the singing bird one stuck with me, Jimbo. I thought about it on the way in to work. The glitch for me was that I didn't know if eagles kill other, smaller birds for prey. It's a very dynamic visual. I like the way you ended it with ".nature," as that's the lesson I'm always trying to teach myself when I watch nature programs. I wish all the animals, bird, mammals, and fish were vegetarian, but that's just not the case. Nature. If they were, though, I might be lamenting the screaming of plants

and wishing all creatures were breathairians [can't recall the exact term, but it seems to be relegated to those highly-evolved few who are able to exist on breathing air alone. Not particularly peaceful on your eagle/singing bird one, though; and now I'm wondering if being peaceful is a prereq of haikus. See how much I don't know about it

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Please keep writing them. Maybe I'll get out a couple books on them and see what they have to say. I had to laugh out loud at the ones I wrote when I tried. In the scheme of things, nothing short of ridiculous

. The only thing I could say for myself was "I tried."
I don't think Leonard would be considered a Master of haiku... even though he appears to have dabbled in it. The other ones that Andrew mentioned [other than Leonard and himself]
are considered Masters in it, though.
~ Lizzy
"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken."
~ Oscar Wilde