2001-08-06

rollercoaster haiku

Have you ever gotten really close to a person and then you start to feel that bond slipping away? It’s rather like going up a roller coaster and reaching the top and knowing that you are about to go sliding down the other side. I have had this happen to me before. It makes me wonder why I took the ride. But I have to always remind myself that who wouldn’t want to take a ride on a roller coaster again? I mean, don’t we all love the ride?

Climbing up the hill

Touch the heights of all knowing

Fleeing down to gone

Five words, he included "taken". Like he see's it as a disease. I want to know what it's going to be like when there are none.

It’s odd; I wanted to do this haiku project. And for the most part, no one wants to do it with me. I still have some people to ask, but still… I asked someone that I know to be a good writer. He feigned being busy and not being able to commit. Not surprising since he claims to be non-committing. But I still feel like a kid that heard the ice cream truck coming down the street, ran to get my piggy bank then back out on the street to find that the ice cream man passed up my street.

And I came to you

Just like you said you wished for

And you were not there

~and~

Ice cream truck singing

Dancing down my lonely street

It passes by me

My Haiku project is based upon the book “The Haiku Year”. Information...

http://www.mirrorimage.com/haiku/haiku.html

poetical at 9:22 a.m.

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