yesterday
if only
yesterday
passing
swallows
passing
alone
you promise me
alone
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There is a Russian expression, “Repetition is the mother of learning,” which if you ever study Russian you will undoubtedly learn on pretty much your first day on the job and be subjected to, um, repeatedly for the remainder of your Russian-language-learning career. Anyway, I sometimes think I absorbed the lesson of this little saying a little too well, since, as everyone who’s spent more than five minutes reading this blog knows, I am constantly repeating myself. That is, I say the same thing over and over again. Until you’re sick of hearing about it. Then I say it again.
Going back through my disorganized archives of half-completed, partially-revised, mostly-abandoned, disgustedly-rejected haiku, I found these things that had just seemed like fragments at the time. But suddenly I liked them. They reminded me of my brain, feverish and iterative as it is. I thought they belonged together. So they’re here. Here they are.
Red Dragonfly 
this is very intriguing. i like the concept. ha, like i dont over repeat?
upside down
the birds teeter-totter
up side down
hmmmm…. may be i missed it.
around in a circle
voices back and forth
a round in a circle
I like how you seem to be finding the many ways to haiku, Melissa. This one gives some kind of a bone to what comes naturally sometimes. I quote Rick, “don’t I ever repeat?”
on window display
an antique chair, waiting
waiting
Wrick and Alegria — love all your haiku. Wrick I love the way your repetitions have different meanings, Alegria I love the way you put the repetitions next to each other … yes, so many amazing ways to write haiku, so little time …
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