Haiku While Wandering

By Jackson H. Day, Newport News, 30 May 1968

The tree's gnarled roots
Rise above the water
Monuments to persistence.

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The river rises
Conquering sand and pebbles--
To what great purpose?

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Cottage by the river:
The flow of life
Beside the flow of water.

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Butterfly on the beach
Black on gold
Aliveness on foreverness

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The fly circling my head: a pest!
But why should he not
be curious?

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Puff of white grandiloquence,
The cloud cuts off the sun:
What an ego!

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The animated black line
Snakes across the highway
into the brush.

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There in the midst
of the green blades of corn:
Black Power on a tractor.

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A poet by the waterfront
Watching seagulls
in the setting sun.

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By night the refinery
casts on the sea swells
a million points of light.

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Shyly the steam drifts
over highway, marsh and river
seeking the sea.

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A forest
of star-studded Christmas trees
drawn around a flaming torch.

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Sadly, no fuel to add,
they watched the dying embers
Disappear.









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