Happiness Tryouts
Haiku about love, loss, loneliness, and lifetimes
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"A goal without a plan is just a wish"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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A Cosmos by the Lake
Stars smiled upon me Nice to say hello again Loveliest surprise
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Fair-weather Friend
My fair-weather friend Likes me on days I get paid Hides me on others
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Another Vacation
Ask me down again Help you pick up the pieces Call it vacation
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No Warmth
Bucket of water Onto a soul's blazing hearth Farewell, wisp of smoke
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Surf Line
Pick up the red phone Your sweet voice flows over me In sugary waves
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Cute Scorpion
Bubbly child of Mars Still you hook me from the stars Please never let go
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Unstarcrossed
Cosmically drifting Yet seeking like infrared Found heat of our hearts
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Love of the Ocean
She's down for too long Not one to easily quit Like a second swell
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Life on the Red Planet
A carbon dreamscape Materialized in flame Descended from Mars
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Keep It Simple Sweetheart
She's a simple girl Not about technology Wiser than she knows
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Lovesick
Happily bleeding Arrow through left ventricle Shakes fist at Cupid
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The Bridge
Standing at the bridge To a sunshine dimension I will cross over
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Hotline
Between the two of us Seven hundred miles and Thousands of long sighs
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Pillow Talk
Record your heartbeat Play it back through a speaker Inside my pillow
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River Physics
Hearts spin in water Our quantum entanglement Transforming summer
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Fourth of July
Nightfall surprises me Jewels from your lips bursting Hot as fireworks fly
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Your Spot
With you on the sand Living our day in the sun A lifetime ahead
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Guided by Light
Never losing sight Sailing the stormiest seas You are my lighthouse
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One Path
Our parallel paths Converged one fine spring morning Now we walk just one
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Leftovers
My soul flickers fast Dying lightbulb in the fridge Close the door on me
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Work in Progress
Walking through amber If certain of what you need Please, take the right steps
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Zero Doubt
Doubt like a dragon Cannot breathe its fire on me My heart is my shield
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Unwilling Culicidae
Whine of beating wings Without landing for my blood She won't drink poison
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On Deck
Fireworks above town We collide in broad daylight Our own little world
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How I Burn for You
Sunbeam says hello Naturally amplified fire Lake full of lava
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Meandering Morning Mist
Mist swirled around me Focus then switched on to you Eyes now misty too
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Too Hot to Handle
Always colliding Setting off cosmic fireworks Our heat burns the sun
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Woman in the Moon
A face in the sky Glowing on the nighttime dew Your moonbeam kisses
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Selfishness in the Stars
Spoiled blameless soul Slap color out of my face Say it is my fault
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Let Lightning Live Long
Current runs through us Like charging capacitors Wait until we touch
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Synchronize Watches
Fridays around nine Appears your most common time For disappearing
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Young Again
Heartbeats play hopscotch Wildly skipping within us A game of smiling
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Condensation
Your heart creates steam Tenacity propels you No falling apart
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Life Does Revolve
Forgive my weakness Not strong enough to sustain This reality
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Sometimes Please Stop
Not yesterday's date On my birth certificate Lies unbecoming
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Aquatic Constellations
Water everywhere Encircled by shores of love Lit by moon and mars
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I am Dying
Museum or shrine Home to my past tense pieces Passed on to no one
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Snowstorm of Solitude
Lonely snow falling Blanketing an absent love Seems less beautiful
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Navigation by Heart
You are my lighthouse My river to the ocean You are my North Star
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Why Asterismos?
We became four stars Strung in the weather for years Until one fell off
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State of Serendipitous Sunshine
From our first meeting You gave me a special gift We will always be
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Pity Park
Difficult seesaw One side guilt — other side shame Can we leave this park?
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Corazón de Fuego
You dropped an ember In my heart decades ago Now an inferno
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Twenty-Seven Degrees
Confusion so strong Entirely focused on Not falling apart
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Savage
Living off the grid Frequent flyer miles expired Uncivilized now
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Graduation
Dearest daffodil Marvelous hearted daughter Stars shining for you
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New Moon
The moon lasts awhile Think of me when you see it I'm already gone
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Periodically Able
Bluish eye stains rain Cold quantum phenomenon Double bonded chain
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Fireplace
Seeking the heart's warmth Now beside a wondrous flame Lit in me the same
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Brian Shumate
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