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on the flowerpot,
the butterfly listens
true budda dharma

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Originally posted by jackjones
on the flowerpot,
the butterfly listens
true budda dharma
Hulk SMASH!!!

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Shouldn't the second line have an extra syllable?

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Originally posted by rbmorris
Hulk SMASH!!!
Thank you for providing my evening guffaw.

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Originally posted by jackjones
on the flowerpot,
the butterfly listens
true budda dharma
You should know
Few around here like
poetry

I don't know if you're counting ons (however that works in English) and if
that's the reason the second line in your haiku uses only six syllables, but
regardless of that, I like it.

🙂

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wat

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Originally posted by schakuhr
wat
THIS IS MADNESS!!!

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Originally posted by Jigtie
THIS IS MADNESS!!!
I suppose you would like me to make a terribly clever reference to "300", however I suggest you do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands.

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Originally posted by schakuhr
I suppose you would like me to make a terribly clever reference to "300", however I suggest you do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands.
Gimli or Leonidas. Either way: THIS IS MADNESS!!!

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Originally posted by Jigtie
Gimli or Leonidas. Either way: THIS IS MADNESS!!!
Ni

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Originally posted by jackjones
on the flowerpot,
the butterfly listens
true budda dharma
butterflies taste with
their feet, fornicate themselves
dead, poor li'l flitters.

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upon a cutting board...
a squash met tha edge...

and fell...

tha lettuce followed...
with onion in tow...

happy...

ripe tomato, juicy drips...
hard-cooked egg, heady...

shredded...

an office memo lunch.


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