Four thousand years of Hebrew
and still no word for 'tact'.
So who needs it?

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put aside questions;
learn of yourself, how to behave;
the answers will be known.

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Don't seek to find yourself;
just be yourself;
here, there are no exams to pass..

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Haiku are Poohsticks -
plop! - then mind must cross the bridge
for a nice surprise.

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Dusk on autumn brown -
where does this sadness come from?
Freed leaves, dancing home.

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No then, no soon, no here, no there
in this fountain
merrily splashing, enjoying itself

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This first plum-blossom in the snow
delights the bumble-bee
which has no words for 'Spring' or 'happy'.

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kick aside that rat as you charge
that's busy on the face
of your dead mate whom you've no time to bury

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The throat smiled, that warm Spring evening;
the stomach sang it to its heart;
but the guts soon shouted farewell.

senryu by Michael Shepherd
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