HAIKU

Donald Shephard


          Steaming cup of tea
          Brown leaves falling divinely
          Bracing to the bone.


          Greeting sheep by name
          Each dew-eyed ewe to slaughter
          Saddens my stomach.


          Sausages sizzling
          Breakfast munching morning fog
          Dispensed innards glow.


          Ugly dog photo
          In the autumn of my days
          Brings to mind a girl.


          A good donkey day
          Grass rising to the fetlock
          Dreaming of a foal.


          Apothegm Haiku:
          Apologies to Japan
          Masters roiling graves.


          Rushmore Dakota
          Verisimilar leaders
          Ice on our eyebrows.

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