I started doing the historical "New Wave" Haiku poems again, but I felt a need to slip a few traditional ones in there. I don't seem to be as good at writing those though. My mind doesn't seem to think that way for some reason. I already decided to keep out the year of an event because it takes up a whole line by itself (unless I could just put the numbers and ignore the fact that it is 5 or 6 syllables long). I don't know. I'm indecisive on my ability to write these, but probably only because of my inexperience with them. Plus, I threw in a couple of other ones that I just felt like doing.
I like looking them up the historical events so maybe I will go back to the longer poems with more information of them. Maybe like an Ode or a Ballard.
New countries created.
League of Nations.
Treaty of Versailles.
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Wall Street.
Stock market crash.
Great Depression.
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Started in a barn.
Improved building codes.
Great Chicago fire.
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Cold and beautiful.
Different patterns.
Snowflakes.
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Millions of years.
Colorado river.
Grand Canyon formed.
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Red flowers swaying
in the wind
by the babbling brook.
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Without you
my incomplete day
seems a lifetime.
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You're sad now.
But wait and see.
Happiness is coming.
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Evil beckons me
day and night.
I fight it off,
with all my might.
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There is darkness
in your eyes.
Sweet revenge
is your prize.
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Howdy y’all. It’s me, ninong7 aka UJ aka John. Just a short intro about myself. I am a Texan that has retired in the Philippines. I moved to the Philippines with my wife back in May 2010. I am retired from the US Air Force. The music I like is mostly Classic Country and Classic Rock. I guess you could say that I am “Classic”. I play dominoes when I can find someone that will play, I play chess, cribbage, spades, hearts, Empire Builder, Rail Baron, Acquire and a few other games. I like to write poems and stories (although pretty novice) and I love learning about history, just about any history. I’m at home on my computer a lot but if I could afford to, I’d be traveling and documenting my travels to post in my blog. I hope to get to know a lot of you through PeakD and Discord.