Welcome to Haiku Diem, where I've been posting one new haiku every day since July 9th, 2010!

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Note: In the first year of Haiku Diem, I followed the popular 5-7-5 form for my haiku. (Five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third.) For Year Two, I switched to 3-5-3. Now, in Haiku Diem's third year, I'm not following any syllabic rules at all.

              

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About me

I make my living as a software engineer, and live by writing. In addition to these daily haiku, I've completed a couple of YA novels that I'm currently shopping around to publishers, and am the author of The Wineskin Project, a series of short read-aloud plays based on the Gospels that can be freely downloaded for use by churches. You can read more about all this and more at www.FreemanNg.net.
Copyright © 2013 by Freeman Ng

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day 10445-17-2013
 slipping past
 the security door
 a dried leaf
day 10435-16-2013
 thorned vine
 infinitesimally overtaking
 the barbed wire
day 10425-15-2013
 thorned vine
 in slow motion struggle
 with barbed wire
day 10415-14-2013
 bus on bridge
 you look up to view
 the land you live on
day 10405-13-2013
 the horned moon
 so thin and distant tonight
 still a comfort
day 10395-12-2013
 viewing his grave
 from the car window
 my mother
day 10385-11-2013
 the woman on the bike
 alongside the 18-wheeler
 eyes straight ahead
day 10375-10-2013
 awkward speaker
 who repeatedly noted
 the awkward silences

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