"through the cracks of sleep" is a wonderful line! :-)
Terrific haiku showing the strengths of the genre as a single line of poetry and still remaining a poem filled with tension and resonance.
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Unless a danger noise occurs, I can sleep through anything including the most violent of thunder storms. I've written a few poems about sleep, who hasn't, but the above one is wonderful, and I'd just like to add one of mine here…
curling up at dusk
the park bench sleeper
turns over a new page
Alan Summers
1st Prize, Fellowship of Australian Writers, Queensland, International Haiku Contest (1996)
October 29th, 2014 at 10:42 am
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through the cracks of sleep night wind
—ANN K. SCHWADER
"through the cracks of sleep" is a wonderful line! :-)
Terrific haiku showing the strengths of the genre as a single line of poetry and still remaining a poem filled with tension and resonance.
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Unless a danger noise occurs, I can sleep through anything including the most violent of thunder storms. I've written a few poems about sleep, who hasn't, but the above one is wonderful, and I'd just like to add one of mine here…
curling up at dusk
the park bench sleeper
turns over a new page
Alan Summers
1st Prize, Fellowship of Australian Writers, Queensland, International Haiku Contest (1996)
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November 3rd, 2014 at 4:27 pm
Love this one!
November 5th, 2014 at 3:44 pm
Me too!
August 13th, 2020 at 6:03 pm
Me too, too!