Hello Haiku

Whew, I'm finally back to the blog, trying to limit it to my themes of India and/or the writing life.  Taking a poetry class with Thomas R. Smith.  Great fun.  Reviewing a form a week, authors of the same, examples of their work and signs of their times; practicing writing, sharing our own.  Last week:  Haiku.  Three lines, of 5-7-5 syllables, respectively.  Or less.  Here are a couple of my own:

Two or Three Haiku
by Shirley Smith Franklin

Haiku
Habit forming.                    (p.s., It really is! Like eating popcorn...it's hard to stop!)

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Dusk in the forest.
Out of gathering silence
An owl calls my name.

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Why all these
Miss-understandings?                       (spelling, sic)
Why not Mister?
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