1169 - Surely Not?

Surely Not?

Too much chocolate!
(I was reliably told)
Is there such a thing?
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1168 - Tempus Transit

Tempus Transit

Another year gone—
The relentless march of time,
Enjoyed day by day.
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1167 - A Good Egg

TEO
1943 - 2018

Haiku Horizon prompt: Egg

 

A Good Egg.

We'll all go sometime—
What better an epitaph:
He was a good egg.
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1166 - Idle Thoughts on A Hot Sunday

 

Sunday Whirl (Wordle #336) presents a list of words
that we must incorporate in a writing piece. 

The words this week are:

magic, ransom, band, rain, trample, tale,
cat, change, aim, dangerously, dense, day

Idle Thoughts on A Hot Sunday

To each comes it’s own—
Every dog shall have its day;
The cats get the best spot.

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Forty Two degrees—
Centigrade, not Fahrenheit,
Dangerously dry.

The weather changes:
The rain bands pass overhead
But hold in the rain.

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What killed the magic?
Peering at their mobile phones,
All else seems boring.

So are they just dense?
Unseeing and uncaring—
They trample on life.

A retirement plan—
Kidnap all the wretched phones;
Hold them to ransom.

Do they have an aim?
What tale will they tell their kids?
Will the kids listen?
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1165 - Aim

Haiku Horizon prompt: Aim

Aim

It would be lovely to live in a culture
where calmness was the aim. - Matt Haig

Told we must set goals
And chant our affirmations—
Aim high, we are told.

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The Self-Help Gurus:
They aim to achieve too—
Mostly our money.
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Aim for the moon.
If you miss, you may hit a star.
- W. Clement Stone

Would that be a constellation prize?

1164 - The Precious

The Precious.

There was a young princess, quite pretty,
Whose attitude edged on the shitty.
The chief tool of her trade
Was a guilt-trip tirade,
Followed by a funk of self-pity.

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A pretend princess—
Lacks the graces of the job;
Just wants the title.
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1163 - Pecking Disorder

 Midweek Motif : Doorways

Pecking Disorder

They eye the gateway
And covet the green beyond—
It will not happen.
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1162 - All fired up.

Haiku Horizon's topic of the week : 

Fire

Where there's smoke there's fire.

If you have a suspicion—

Best buy marshmallows.

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Modern companies—

The spreadsheet is everything:

Corporate firestorms.

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Flames dance like demons:

Hypnotic, captivating.

Fires—the place of dreams.

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You can have your doubts

But climate change means more fires.

Best get used to it.

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1161 - Buying The Grinch

Buying the Grinch

Forget the story history tells,

Consumption’s now the game.

So what if your budget’s bust

To avoid that grinchly name?

So buy.

Do not ask why.

You must.

The ads have told us so—

Cash registers play Jingle Bells,

Merchants whisper Ho-Ho-Ho.

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1160 - Ocean

Haiku Horizons has the prompt "Ocean"

Ocean

We are all at sea—

Swept along by the currents:

Not waving, drowning.

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