Too Many Of Carl’s Cats – haiku by Dennis Allen Lange

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An island
Isolated by
A fog flood.

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photo by Jan Schulz

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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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The San Francisco Hills by Dennis Lange

The San Francisco hills are, day by day,
A mystery that never goes away.
Some need a revelation so they’ll know
Why they put on the purest iv’ry show.

They daily seem to smoke as if on fire,
And wear their white robes like a virgin choir.
But on their slopes there is no leaping flame
That Smoking Mountains would become their name.

Though Twain deemed San Francisco summer’s cold
No one who knows would be so wrong and bold
To say the hills, upon their heads, wear snow
So they are white and wise like old men grow.

It really is too complex to explain
The factors here in my too short refrain.
So, in the end, my simple answer’s that
On San Francisco hills sits Sandburg’s cat.

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© Dennis Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2015.

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Mark Twain supposedly said, “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”

Fog by Carl Sandburg:
https://thebardonthehill.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/fog-by-carl-sandburg/

If Sandburg’s Cat Were Mine:
https://thebardonthehill.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/if-sandburgs-cat-were-mine-by-dennis-lange/

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If Sandburg’s Cat Were Mine by Dennis Lange

….If Sandburg’s Cat Were Mine

The fog comes silently as if it were
…A pensive cat on little paws.
It looks o’er harbor, town without a purr
…And then moves on to warm applause.

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Sandburg’s poem can be read here:

https://thebardonthehill.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/fog-by-carl-sandburg/

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© Dennis Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2015.

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