Murphy's Haiku #60

Ranger began tour,
Sun disappeared behind clouds
-torrential downpour.

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Family Tapesrty

At Ellis Island,
Clerk read Franz Rurka's Czech tag
-wrote down Frank Robbins.

Grandpa showed bookshelf,
Where he kept family tree
-we looked at the lines:
Some back to Ellis Island,
Others back to Mayflower!

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One Single Impression: Assimilation

Summers Day's Dream

Trees shading common,
Children laugh and play in park
-little paradise.

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Walled In And Out

Sitting in his cell,
He no longer sees the walls
-only lonely past.

In children's park,
Vines weave through the chain link fence
-forming leafy walls:
a cocoon for children's dreams
acted out on playing frames.

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One Single Impression: Walls

Last Frontier

Last day tommorrow,
No more pressure for deadlines,
-sail into sunset.

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Paradise Lost

For fifty long years,
El jefé built paradise
-many escaped on rafts.

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In The Urban Jungle

Boy on jungle gym,
Swings high on the monkey bars
-tarzan of boston.

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Memorial Haiku

Their names on marble,
Sons and daughters lost to war
-always remembered.

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Writer's Block #2

Poet lays on couch,
Still can't think of haiku
-damn!damn!damn!damn!damn!

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It's That Kind Of Night!

Poet lays on couch,
Can not think up one haiku!
-muse on vacation.

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Murphy's Haiku #58

Staff meeting at nine,
Trolley service running late
-detrained at park street.

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Murphy's Haiku #57

Dinner with old friends,
Many photographs taken
-necktie real crooked.

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Flight Of Mind

Poet reads at mic,
Audience in their own world
-no one heard poet.

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Pay Before Play

School group at window,
Man takes money and records
-then crunches numbers.

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My Word!

Shockjock spews venom,
Norm knew he had a mission
-took gun to clinic.

Standing in doorway,
Boss said I want a word, please!
-holding the pink slips.

On hospital ward,
Old woman saw her daughter
-Said, I forgive you!

Four years of struggle,
She received her diploma,
-Congratulations!
The principal smiled at her,
she did not have the words, though.

After twenty years,
Al met his son at the gate,
-welcome home father.

Staring at the page,
Waiting for the words to come
-page simply stares back.

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One Single Impression: Word

Murphy's Haiku #56

Unmet bills piled high,
I paced room, what more than this!?
-landlord sends letter.

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Murphy's Haiku #55

I came to the gate,
Ask the price of admissions
-forgot my wallet.

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Different Drum

Always speaking up,
Said No, when others said Yes
-one night, disappeared.

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Murphy's Haiku #54

Working hours online,
Completing important form
-computer shuts down.

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At Last...Spring!

Late March chill over,
The warm weather caresses
-balm for winter's sores.

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