Haikus For Children
Looking out backwards
Just as his bus pulls away
He waves good bye once.
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Grandpa is smiling
He is provoking the leaves
To burst in color.
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Snow fell yesterday
And, I whirled as a child
Snow tracks inside, too.
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His face holds sun light
This boy has cream on his cheek
He chews, wipes his nose.
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Sleeping womb fashioned
Beneath a warm comforter
Mother cooks bacon.
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A single grass blade
Cuts easily through concrete,
Dogs bark at anything.
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Undulating waves
Sounds above of hungry birds,
Toes digging in sand.
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At recess I lose
My mind on the monkey bars
Whistle ends childhood.
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When the spray bottle
Squirted water in my face
I stuck my tongue out.
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The sound of laughter
From a child is like music
Made from bright sun shine.
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When I was a boy
Four years old, I carried light
In my two fat cheeks.
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The balloon string slipped
From the fingers of the child.
He cried once then laughed.
Haiku with art
I saw a bird sing
Joyously outside against
A furious sky.
