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Layers of pitch bog down the night
Stagnant air filled with foreboding
But it's probably my overactive brain
Still suffering from the five cups 
of scalding murky caffeine
Guzzled this morning

Happy Haiku Day
Focus on all the small things
Simple perfection

To honor today
We've written a few haikus
For you to enjoy!

Wind blows through the leaves
See them dancing in the breeze
Tallest tree I see

i keep on
typing things
and pushing backspace
erasing them
from existence
my words these days
don't seem to come
to life
it's not even
that i don't have the ideas
taking pictures
but not developing them

Inky splotches bloom
Following cracks on the screen
Oh, what have I done?!

A chalice
of cheap plastic
with peeling gold paint
Beckons me

Folded slips
fortune cookie hearts
On the podium
The sign reads
Words of Wisdom

Squeezing my eyes tight
Until darkness becomes
swimming color

I imagine
a world that accepts all
and takes anyone into
its teal embrace,
where everyone has a place
they can call home,
everyone is equal,
on the same level
in the same house,
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