Writing haiku.
The haiku
On his mind,
Heart and soul.
He in haiku
And the haiku in him
Cannot help without.
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The bearman, comes, comes he
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You taught us to take into confidence
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Lord Shiva and Parvati
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A document of poetry, a pamphlet of poetry, call I
The longer-longer poems,Docketing letters and their issuance not,But of the poems.Whose poems, who should haveAnd who is docketing them,Releasing as a poetic testament,How should it be poetry,How the documents of it?No peon there to enter into,No clerk to give the reference number and the dateAs for keeping the recordWith regard to the issuance of the…