Love sprouts like flowers.
Bees and diseases want us.
Live. Reproduce? Die.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #169, 10/2/2018 –
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Each word blooms stories.
Writing to fill my blank spots.
A cure and my joy.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #168, 10/2/2018 –
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My wings are dying.
Secure me but don’t lock me.
Let’s fly together.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #167, 10/2/2018 –
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Softly you whisper.
Let’s turn these feelings to gold.
Transcend young and old.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #166, 10/2/2018 –
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Spirit therapy.
Feel my thoughts. I comfort yours.
Merge the two of us.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #165, 9/25/2018 –
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You are so precious.
Don’t ever think otherwise.
Flowers bloom from dirt.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #157, 9/18/2018 –
I dedicate this poem to all of you. Keep your heads up!!! The flowers are from the farmers market in Hilo, Hawaii on 9/22/2018.
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White fluffy carpet.
It shot us up to the sky.
Screaming pain and joy.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #164, 9/25/2018 –
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Lions talk to me.
Beasts who guard the gates of death.
Heroes just hear roars.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #163, 9/23/2018 –
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Bombs fall around us.
You hold me. It’s not scary.
We burn much hotter.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #162, 9/23/2018 –
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Like an eighties song,
you can’t throw away my heart.
This story lives on.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #161, 9/23/2018 –
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We talk in silence.
Closer than when we were real.
You said, “We were dead.”
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #160, 9/23/2018 –
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At night they gain ground.
Meditate to my music.
I still hear footsteps.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #159, 9/23/2018 –
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The blues feel so good.
I’m falling upwards from you.
Love reverses pain.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #158, 9/23/2018 –
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You are so precious.
Don’t ever think otherwise.
Flowers bloom from dirt.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #157, 9/18/2018 –
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Squeezed out all my love.
Every poem I wrote to you.
Don’t let the words die.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #156, 8/31/2018 –
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Jane, what a feeling.
Mary, take my pain away.
I want to go home.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #155, 8/31/2018 –
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Either here or there.
Maybe after we are dead.
I will find you – love.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #154, 8/31/2018 –
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My dear, I’m still here.
Breathe. Feel the air. See the clouds.
Sun rays hugging you.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #153, 8/31/2018 –
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Almost back to life.
A grin. Even a few laughs.
Yes, I’m almost back.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #152, 8/30/2018 –
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Stumbling in the snow.
I follow the sounds of joy.
A place we found love.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #151, 8/30/2018 –
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We were once children.
If it’s not a game, why play?
Shouldn’t life be fun?
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #150, 8/30/2018 –
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Two dots and their line.
Circles connecting circles.
I just want your dot.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #149, 8/20/2018 –
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I picked a flower.
It’s all I have at this time.
The rest is bonus.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #147, 8/11/2018 –
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Reality died.
I re-wrote the way it ends.
That’s when she appeared.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #146, 8/10/2018 –
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Pinkish white petals.
Please blow the last ones away.
It hurts to see them.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #145, 8/8/2018 –
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Evil in the light.
Voices call me in the dark.
“Tell our story.”
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #144, 8/6/2018 –
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Their rage won’t burn me.
Empathy spits fire back.
Change or die in pain.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #143, 7/25/2018 –
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Flip the switch for light.
Sometimes it doesn’t turn on.
The sun will return.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #142, 7/6/2018 –
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A little party.
I will make it to know you.
Twenty-thousand strong.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #141, 7/4/2018 –
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Trapped.
Wanting everything, yet desiring simplicity.
The more you get, the more they want.
With nothing, there’s just authenticity.
But with nothing, you feel like nothing.
When you work hard you get known.
Attacks and Accolades.
Maybe do less and hide.
Lonely and peaceful days.
Wanting the new, yet missing the old.
Change is constant, an unbreakable code.
Love my love. Love.
Love the pain from love. Still love.
Between everything and nothing is something.
Maybe all we need is something.
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Something’s happening.
A feeling, a buzz-like high.
The light will push through.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #138, 6/27/2018 –
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Orphaned by their war.
I rebel for my people.
Freedom, not terror.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #137, 6/19/2018 (This poem was inspired by the protagonist in my second novel who struggles with his sadness and anger over the death of his parents caused by the Iraq war. I’m editing the first draft.) –
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The dots are ready.
Connecting my world with yours.
Fill it with color.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #136, 6/5/2018 –
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Time fades memories.
I grasp my pictures of you.
Don’t take them away.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #135, 5/28/2018 –
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You paint my blues pink.
And shelter me from my pain.
Art from your kind heart.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #133, 5/23/2018 –
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Go dance by yourself!
Move that energy in you.
Turn it up a notch!
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #132, 4/25/2018 –
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I still think of you.
Even if you never cared.
Pretend for one day.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #130, 4/17/2018 –
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This stone protects me.
A lucky stone you told me.
I feel you in it.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #129, 4/14/2018 –
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It has been some time.
I protect you from afar.
You dance in my dreams.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #128, 4/14/2018 –
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How can the truth live,
if it has to be believed?
Like a ghost crying.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #126, 4/12/2018 –
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If you are dreaming,
Lie to me, tell me you’re dead.
I am not a dream.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #125, 4/12/2018 –
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Failure is a gift.
Use it to light your rocket.
Pain fuels our dreams.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #124, 4/12/2018 –
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Time – Fluffy snowflakes,
falling onto my footsteps.
Death falls on us now.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #123, 4/10/2018 –
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Just a dash of green.
Music dances into me.
So does your spirit.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #122, 4/6/2018 –
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You were made from words.
Weave us through our mad world.
Teach us how to live.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #119, 4/2/2018 –
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Pull me into you.
Blending feelings with flavor.
Pulsating pleasure.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #118, 3/25/2018 –
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Fade into my eyes.
I will be at the starlight,
between life and death.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu, Haiku Poem #117, 3/12/2018 –
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