tattered and torn
clouds break
like waves
in the sky
sunlight dances
through a wisp
of angels
Day: August 4, 2019
davidbrucehaiku: repellent beauty
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REPELLENT BEAUTY
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I can’t repel you
With my beauty — I can with
My hostility
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Pensive
That feeling of uneasiness,
those unknown reasons
lurking my thoughts day and night
keeping my heart delirious
and eyes wide awake
despite being sleep deprived for eons
now making me wonder
was this the life we dreamt
when we first met
in the fold of few dreams
in the crevices of some benign smiles
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#Haiku: Field of Flowers
lacy leaves and pods
delicate blooms kissing sky
bright field of flowers
Carpe Diem Haku Kai: #1715 Field of Flowers
“The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.”
“The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.”
— — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian, novelist, historian, short story writer, writer, Nobel Prize, Quotes for Now
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Return of Fiesta Days: Cascarones, by Mark Tulin
In the current political climate—where minorities, immigrants, and their children are treated harshly—it’s refreshing to have a fiesta (Spanish for party) in my hometown of Santa Barbara, California. It’s an annual week-long fiesta beginning on the first weekend of August. The Fiesta, or Old Spanish Days as it is sometimes called, celebrates the contributions of Mexican, Spanish, and Native American peoples in the region.
The symbol of the festival is perhaps the handmade confetti-filled fiesta eggs, called cascarones in Spanish, and many of them are intricately decorated. The breaking of these colorful eggs during the Old Spanish Days celebration takes place joyfully in the streets of Santa Barbara.
The first weekend
in August, the bands strike,
and the Palominos proudly stride
down State Street
in red, green
and white.
Señoras on sidewalks
selling hollow eggs,
washed and painted,
filled with confetti,
broken over crowns,
christening lives
in cascading waterfalls.
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“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”
“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher, Austrian, British
Only a Few Strides Away
You worked for years, yet not able to see the sun you desired and wrapped in your gloomy self you let go all the effort you channelized all this while, and you were naive for the sunshine was waiting for you at the other cornering life a few strides away
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davidbrucehaiku: shoes
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SHOES
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Yes, I need these shoes
Yes, they are necessities
I have fourteen feet
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The Reluctant Poet 