The King Of Beasts – haiku by Dennis Allen Lange

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Get this straight:
Not one step closer.
This is mine!

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photo by Jose Aguilar at
http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/oF91pTO/Cat

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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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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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Eating When Full by Dennis Lange

She gave him a come-hither smile,
…A match to helpless hay.
But she was thinking all the while,
…“Oh, please just stay away!” 

For e’en a cat can sometimes tire
…Of playing with its prey,
But can’t its nature just retire
…A moment or a day.

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

 

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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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Three Animal Haiku by Dennis Lange

Outta Here!

Life sentence –
When you kill one mouse.
It’s not fair!

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Another Evil

Three monkeys
Don’t see, hear, speak – but
Something smells.

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Nursery Rhyme Answered

Hey, black sheep:
Have you any wool?
Yes – wooly!

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Outta – photo by Krzysztof Szkurlatowski at
http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/mhXQrLA/Escape+of+cat+from+military+zo

Evil – photo by Adrian van Leen at
http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/oq9uicw/wise+monkeys1

Nursery – photo by Michael and Christa Richert at
http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/moy33lw/two+little+black+sheep

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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 Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2015.

 

 

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Three Miscellaneous Haiku by Dennis Lange

Who, Me? Or You?

Are you real?
I’m talking to you.
Are you real?

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Nobody Knows

Famous one,
Riddle of the Sphinx –
Where’s my nose?

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The Gold Law

Often true:
Money tips the scales
Of justice.

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Who – photo by Ortonesque at http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/mieAFYO/Cat+on+the+ledge

Nobody – photo by Marja Flick-Buijs at http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/mgQ8zzy/Sphynx

Gold – photo by darktaco at
http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/2dRS3rq/Balance

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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 Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2014.

 

 

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Three Animal Haiku by Dennis Lange

Something Fishy’s Going On

Evil glare:
I have work to do –
Go away!

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Chicken Olympics

First contest:
Synchronized dancing
With drumsticks.

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North, South, East, And West

Four horses –
Go forth to conquer
The whole world.

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Fishy – photo by Hagit Berkovich at http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/mC028Aq/cat+with+guppies

Chicken – photo by Jan Robert Xposid at http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/o54PAIO/Chicken+dance

North – photo by Michael Adams-Wade at http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/o8CT4QY/Four+White+Horses+Of+Aberffraw

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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 Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2013.

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Fog by Carl Sandburg

…….Fog

The fog comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

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