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Archive for 'Daily Haiku'

cloudy entourage

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Thunder and lightning
don’t come round much anymore
but bring guest of rain.

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stage 0 (2007)

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Alabama Part-
ners for Clean Air Homegrown Stage

takes up most of verse.

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stage 1 (2007)

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Saddest lineup of
all, hardly headline worthy.
Coke Stage is all flat.

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stage 2 (2007)

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Legacy Credit
Union Stage
cursed! Last year’s name?
mypeople.com.

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stage 3 (2007)

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Oldies live on at
Mason Corp Oasis, time
capsule of big band.

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stage 4 (2007)

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Miller Lite offers
Ludacris, Puddle of Mudd.
Event in reruns.

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stage 5 (2007)

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Festival for kids?
But they’re small and can’t afford
Publix shopping. Yet.

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stage 6 (2007)

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Vault isn’t a real
event, just a sponsor of
Dance Depot dwelling.

Take the floor as two.
Swing your partner round and round.
So much fun you sweat.

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techno chronic

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Simplest of gadgets
baffles smartest of humans.
Time to reboot life.

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Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 6

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
  1. galactic top
    Each twinkle in sky
    orbits other twinkles in
    cosmic whirligig.
  2. whoa whoa whoa
    I’ve often wondered
    about horses. But not in
    a sexual way.
  3. twenty-eight days later
    Short month still leaves too
    much undone. Need petition
    for new, longer day.
  4. (more…)

what i say and what i do

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

What I say and what
I do often intersect
in freakish fashion.

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a stage afield

Monday, June 4th, 2007

Music in the groove.
Grassy enclave beneath tall
pines swaying to beat.

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bizarro brunch

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Check comes first, before
food arrives at table. Tip
dropping by minute.

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dry heaves part 4

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

Thunderstorms tease with
dribs of rain scattered among
pockets of wasteland.

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dry heaves part 3

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Forecast calls for more
of same: extended stretches
of drought, then more drought.

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