17 Highkus for Haiway 17

17 Highkus for Haiway 17

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17 haikus

For my demanding mistress

My beauty, my bitch

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Turn off the music

Listen to your own heart beat

The slow lane is fine

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Cresting the summit

Islands float in a white sea

Heaven on 17

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Lake Lexington looms

Peeking through a veil of mist

Scullers glide like ghosts

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Smog hides the hillsides

The Valley of Heart’s Delight

One more work day waits

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Better move over

Fire truck splitting the lane

This’ll take awhile

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Cornered way too fast

An Escalade on its back

Speed makes us all slow

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Flare smoke for incense

A plastic bag for a pall

What a place to die!

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The red Ferrarri

Is just as slow in traffic

As my Corolla

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Cut banks in Autumn

Are draped with bright red streamers

Pretty poison oak

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In rutting season

Deer corpses stain the shoulders

Poor shmoes died for sex

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Cars slow – eyes widen

Commuters become children --

Snow at the summit

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French Broom gilds the hills

Delicate yellow blossoms --

Invasive species

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There’s that car again

License reads “KINKY RN”

What’s the deal with that?

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Pride of Madeira

Clings to the hillsides, twisting

Desperately for sun

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Sweltering all day

I long for fog – Santa Cruz

Air conditioning

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My first glimpse of home

Brown hills cradle a blue bay --

Pasatiempo