Texas Hill Country Spring – haiku by Dennis Allen Lange

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The roadsides
Are flower flooded.
Beauty reigns.

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The photo is mine, taken on I-10 west of San Antonio in the Hill Country of Texas.

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* The haiku I write are lines of 3-5-3 syllables instead of 5-7-5.

See Haiku article here for explanation, if needed: https://thebardonthehill.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/haiku/
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© Dennis Allen Lange, 2019.

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What Is Good? by John Boyle O’Reilly

“What is the real good?”
I ask in musing mood.

“Order,” said the law court;
“Knowledge,” said the school;
“Truth,” said the wise man;
“Pleasure,” said the fool;
“Love,” said the maiden;
“Beauty,” said the page;
“Freedom,” said the dreamer;
“Home,” said the sage;
“Fame,” said the soldier;
“Equity,” said the seer.
Spake my heart fully sad:
“The answer is not here.” 

Then within my bosom
Softly this I heard:
“Each heart holds the secret:
‘Kindness’ is the word.”

 

 

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The Pulley by George Herbert

…….When God at first made man,
Having a glass of blessings standing by,
“Let us,” said he, “pour on him all we can.
Let the world’s riches, which dispersèd lie,
…….Contract into a span.”

…….So strength first made a way;
Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure.
When almost all was out, God made a stay,
Perceiving that, alone of all his treasure,
…….Rest in the bottom lay.

…….“For if I should,” said he,
“Bestow this jewel also on my creature,
He would adore my gifts instead of me,
And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature;
…….So both should losers be.

…….“Yet let him keep the rest,
But keep them with repining restlessness;
Let him be rich and weary, that at least,
If goodness lead him not, yet weariness
…….May toss him to my breast.”

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The Quip by George Hebert

The merry World did on a day
With his train-bands and mates agree
To meet together, where I lay,
And all in sport to jeer at me. 

First, Beauty crept into a rose,
Which when I plucked not, “Sir,” said she,
“Tell me, I pray, whose hands are those?” –
But Thou shalt answer, Lord, for me. 

Then Money came, and clinking still,
“What tune is this, poor man?” said he:
“I heard in Music you had skill.”
But Thou shalt answer, Lord, for me. 

Then came brave Glory puffing by
In silks that whistled – who but he?
He scarce allowed me half an eye –
But Thou shalt answer, Lord, for me. 

Then came quick Wit and Conversation,
And he would needs a comfort be,
And, to be short, make an oration –
But Thou shalt answer, Lord, for me. 

Yet when the hour of Thy design
To answer these fine things shall come,
Speak not at large, say, I am Thine,
And then they have the answer home.

 

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Both – haiku by Dennis Allen Lange

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Grand Canyon –
Beautiful, as is
The grand sky.

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The photo was found here: https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2017/12/appellate-court-upholds-obama-administration-withdrawal-1-million-acres-surrounding-grand

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* The haiku I write are lines of 3-5-3 syllables instead of 5-7-5.

See Haiku article here for explanation, if needed: https://thebardonthehill.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/haiku/

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© Dennis Allen Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2018.
 

 

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Appreciation by Dennis Allen Lange

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More than a chair to see the world,
…Are eyes that really see
The panorama of the plains,
…The grandeur in a tree, 

The spiral in a sunny bloom,
…The silver waterfall,
The beauty in a cloudy day,
…And blue when cleared of all. 

There’s wonder in the falling rain
…And in the sunny day.
We simply have to have the eyes
…To see it in its way.

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photo by Kevin Tuck at
http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/muWQOZ6/Chairlift+seats

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© Dennis Allen Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2017.

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Duty by Ellen S. Hooper

I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty:
I woke and found that life was Duty:
Was then thy dream a shadowy lie?
Toil on, sad heart, courageously,
And thou shalt find thy dream to be
A noonday light and truth to thee.

 

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Bell Flower – haiku by Dennis Allen Lange

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No sound made.
Flower carillon
Chimes beauty.

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photo by Michal Zacharzewski at
http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/mhiEeiM/Bell+flower

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* The haiku I write are lines of 3-5-3 syllables instead of 5-7-5.

See Haiku article here for explanation, if needed: https://thebardonthehill.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/haiku/

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© Dennis Allen Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2017.
 

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Hairpin And Hair-raising – haiku by Dennis Allen Lange

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The best thing
When back’s to beauty –
A switchback.

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photo by Kevin Tuck at
http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/mZhGDLG/Winding+road

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* The haiku I write are lines of 3-5-3 syllables instead of 5-7-5.

See Haiku article here for explanation, if needed: https://thebardonthehill.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/haiku/
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© Dennis Allen Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2017.

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A Serenade by Edward Coote Pinkney

Look out upon the stars, my love,
…And shame them with thine eyes,
On which, than on the lights above,
…There hang more destinies.
Night’s beauty is the harmony
…Of blending shades and light;
Then, lady, up, – look out, and be
…A sister to the night!

Sleep not! thine image wakes for aye
…Within my watching breast:
Sleep not! from her soft sleep should fly
…Who robs all hearts of rest.
Nay, lady, from thy slumbers break,
…And make this darkness gay
With looks, whose brightness well might make
…Of darker nights a day.

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