haiku and poetry by gennepher

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the child danced
a song without words
wind laughed playfully

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happily all day
child traced patterns with a stick
on dry sandy soil 

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a pirate
sailing the seven seas
child on upturned dining table

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the child's parents
did not believe in prayer
but the child prayed anyway

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running barefoot along the sand
the child stopped and turned
she watched her footprints fill with water

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grandma said grace
the child eyed her dinner
getting cold

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tears kept wanting to leak out of her eyes
the child never realized
this was sadness

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the child's doll
her mama box silent
after having a bath...

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"Well I never"
the little girl said
to her broken doll

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in her mind
were all the books
the child could ever read


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hands pressed against the attic window
the child watched the slow Lancaster bombers
thundering over in the dark night sky


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the little girl
always wanted
a big red plastic train engine

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in amazement 

child watched monsters striding across wheat fields
electric pylons


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the child always knew
she belonged to nature
and to the sea

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standing by the stream
out of time
child and her brother


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a summer's day
time stretched
for the child

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the child and her brother
danced like two leaves
until the breeze caught him



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she talked to the tramp
but the child found out
he was a war veteran who’d lost everything

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