I Wouldn’t – haiku by Dennis Allen Lange

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Wooden witch –
I wooden want her
As neighbor.

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The witch called,
“Here, kitty kitty.”
Wooden come.

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photo by Michael & Christa Richert at
http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/mfjNVtY/witch+figurine

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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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Buy The Truth And Sell It Not by Dennis Lange

Buy The Truth And Sell It Not

I’ve often asked, “Is there a line
…That lies twixt truth and error?”
My answer – is it only mine? –
…It’s strife, and often, terror.

It cannot be a line that’s mixed
…With truth and error halving;
Right’s right, and wrong is wrong – both fixed.
…There is no sheep that’s calving.

The line is like a battle drawn –
…There is no co-existence.
Colliding, cold and hot air spawn
…A front at both’s insistence.

There is no mix with water, oil.
…They’re kept from e’er eliding
As if the hand of practiced mohel
…Was there, with knife, dividing.

As truth, two faiths can never stand –
…Between them: fire and battle.
With God or godless – line in sand,
…And down it sabers rattle.

In truth, it’s truth when once defined
…Which makes all else an error.
Truth’s one, but error’s not confined –
…Truth always is the rarer.

That truth means truth is valued more
…It stands alone, uniquely.
And error (Witch) is jealous, sore,
…Of truth (Snow White) completely.

And error, erring, true to kind,
…Is cause of strife and terror.
It seeks to take the place assigned
…To truth – the valued, fairer.

So buy the truth, and sell it not;
…No error is its double.
One sends the sailor through the slot,
…The other is his trouble.

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Proverbs 23:23 Buy truth, and do not sell it;
Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.

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© Dennis Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2014.

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Halloween Haiku by Dennis Lange

 

Are you scared?
Get under a sheet –
Be a ghost!

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Skeletons?
None after the treats
Is skin, bones.

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Halloween
For tykes; rest: grow up.
Not for teen.

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A goblin
Door to door – candy.
Then, gobbling.

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Wee vampires,
Better than blood, like
Chocolate.

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Witch cauldron:
Bubble, boil, bubble,
Bubble gum!

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Neighborhood:
Houses too scattered –
No one knocks.

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photo by Crystal Woroniuk at http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/nxwVPLA/Halloween+Pumpkin

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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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