if only
happiness were easy
paper flowers
rearranged
in a waterless vase
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Kat Lehmann
Kat Lehmann is a Touchstone Award-winning haiku poet and scientist based in Connecticut, USA. Kat is Co-Founder / Co-Editor of Whiptail: Journal of the Single-Line Poem, and a panelist for the Touchstone Distinguished Book Award. Her third book is Stumbling Toward Happiness: Haibun and Hybrid poems. Twitter/Instagram: @SongsOfKat.
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Very nice, Paul! I think happiness is always a work in progress. Perhaps contentment and ease are the flowers we arrange, when we could just appreciate the blooms as they are.
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Happiness is a strange animal we find by not looking or attempting to purchase.
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snow on the tracks
the Italian customs officer
grins at my passport
Alan Summers
in memory of the first snow I had personally seen in Europe for decades. The magic even got to border officials. :-)
I like the concept.
Thank you, Valentina!
As Burns says
Happiness is but a dream
Make content and ease thy aim
Very nice, Paul! I think happiness is always a work in progress. Perhaps contentment and ease are the flowers we arrange, when we could just appreciate the blooms as they are.
zen garden without the zen
sand and rocks in conflict
Nice one, Sue! Thank you.
Indeed, indeed!… but would the fragrance be as sweet? Truly enjoyed it, thank you.
Perhaps the process itself is sweet. Thank you, raleigh!
Very striking!
marion
Thank you for the sunshine, marion!
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Happiness is a strange animal we find by not looking or attempting to purchase.
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snow on the tracks
the Italian customs officer
grins at my passport
Alan Summers
in memory of the first snow I had personally seen in Europe for decades. The magic even got to border officials. :-)
A lovely memory, Alan! Pleasure in the simple things feels the most meaningful, don't you think? Thank you for sharing it.
but would the fragrance be as sweet? Truly enjoyed it, thank you.