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I am switching it up on you now. I will continue with the Fraiku's but I am not finding any fun ones in the little book that I have at ye olde desk here. I think that has run its course. So off I go in search of Haiku poetry. I will search far and wide, hither and yon for more poetry for you. Some may be funny but mainly I think they will be serious works of poetry now. This is a beautiful art form and I think deserving of our audience.

One thing I did not know is that the Beat poets did a lot of Haiku poetry (thank you Wikipedia). I am going to have a lot of fun with this, I can tell.

So for the first new one here we go...

Whitecaps on the bay:
A broken signboard banging
In the April wind.

--Richard Wright (collected in Haiku: This Other World, Arcade Publishing, 1998)

Reader contributions and comments are welcome.

Short Bio of poet:

Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of powerful, sometimes controversial novels, short stories and non-fiction, informed by his status as a gifted but often discriminated against African-American.

For more info go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wright_%28author%29