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Autumn Leaves

volume 5 number 6

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September's Seven Haiku 2001

by Richard Vallance

I

Those warmer, quiet
days we spent on windswept knolls
by sea tides are spent.

II

I still remember
you reclining on this beach
where fog rolls in banks.

III

Pellucid, what a
sun had loomed so soon to be
but ghost in fire's dust!

IV

Manhattan's skyline
seared by fire we watch cave in
on strangers, friends and...

V

Weep weep at coffins
rolling draped by greenleaf oaks
raining on mourners.

VI

"Declare War!' Avenge
your Freedoms, Citizens, kill
all them terrorists."

VII

Afghanistan, sick
to death, stands by sickle scythed
refugees starved lives.

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