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we travel by night
sun-scorched sands, choking winds
stars, cars and GPS

still the beat of cloven feet
the dancing of scorpions

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#HaikuQuest: desert

∴ agreeable skies · desolate heart's echoing · contrast in my soul ∴

∴ rugose sage’s lore · agreeable spells take hold · desolate hex fades ∴
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agreeable , desolate

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∴ agreeable spells · cast by cantankerous sage · desolate hex fades ∴ 

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desolate, agreeable

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ㅤ the old garden gate
creaks rustily on one hinge
to welcome gusts and ghosts

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#senryū

tiny graveyard
for hapless squirrels
nuts and crosses

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∴ concealed gateway lies · ’twixt mystic realms, enchantment · unknown secrets thrive ∴

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gate

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∴ tempestuous waves · old man’s spirit meets the tide · triumph in life’s storm ∴

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ocean

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∴ gravel whispers low · sapid soul between the stones · ridiculed, it grows ∴

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between, sapid, ridiculed, gravel

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#senryū

easy lap of oars
nightly slip along the stream
with binoculars

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mesa foraging
cactus, sage, pleurisy-root
Western tea break

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∴ sultry Sidhe’s spell · crow’s wings replace their embrace · beauty turned to caw. ∴

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sultry

coffee and Celtic mythology?! Sidhe (shee)- supernatural beings, associated with the Otherworld, exhibiting both benevolent and mischievous tendencies towards humans

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groundwork for Lego
skyline done with Tonka Trucks
a prolific build
then shenanigans began
foreclosure made people cry

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