Infinite blackness
Stretching far beyond the stars
Into the unknown
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Claustrophobia
Confined in a tight dark space
Buried under dirt
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Haiku – The “Into the Night” Run
Dinner smells wafting
In the late September heat
Last gasp for summer
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What’s up with this heat business right now? I thought almost 90 was a by-gone Summer thing. Here it is Mid-September and it feels like Summer. Fall starts Tuesday though, we will see how it goes after that. Good run tonight overall, and Thursday – the one I didn’t post about. I can’t wait for cooler days. How about you? Will you miss the Summer or can you not wait for Fall?
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Poem – D.I.Y. Author
I contort the pages
Force them into a new shape and form
They adjust uncomfortably
Electronic words are not the norm
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I have been going round and round with my Microsoft Word files the past few days. I’ve now discovered a new way to make my EBooks look great in the Kindle and other EReaders – I think. It seems to be working so far, but it involves a lot of trial and error.
The problem I am having is that when I wrote most of my stuff it was meant for print. I just popped open a Word file and started banging away on the keys. With EBooks though you got to nurse it, massage it, take it out to dinner a couple of times before it gives up the goods. You have to go in and manually set a lot of the margins, tabs, and so forth. It is a nightmare on an OCD guy like me. At what point do you just let it go? I could tweak on these things forever. And on top of all that I keep hearing how Word is the devil when it comes to making EBooks. Again, it’s all I have ever used, so my stuff is frozen in Word. Guess I got to just work with what I got.
Your thoughts. Do you hire people to do make your EBooks or are you one of those who go in like I do and try to do it themselves?
If you have an EBook you might want to look into these two sites. Both helped me along the way, and are helping me still.
http://chrismcmullen.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/styles-the-secret-for-word-to-kindle/
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Haiku – A Taste of Fall 2
Orange color creeps
Consuming Summer’s green leaves
Autumn almost here
The First One:
Yellow and brown leaves
River Birch changing early
Signs of things to come
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Haiku – Coffee in the Pot
Early morning blah
My body needs some caffeine
To get me moving
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Hard day to get up on, but a good one. My son is officially 2 today. I just can’t believe how fast the time has gone. I just wanted to wish him a Happy Birthday!
Okay, now off to get a little coffee and get my stay at home dad day started. Who would like to kick back and play in the sand today? A beach sounds great about right now.
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Haiku – Ghost Train
Cold moonlight drenched night
Machine specter chugging fast
Empty rails rattle
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Haiku – Thoughts about Trains
Haunted by our past
Trains once rolled into these camps
Few came out alive
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A steam engine roars
Click and clack of the steel wheels
Riding on the rails
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Haiku – The Severed Hand
Crawling towards me
Dead rotten moldy fingers
Scratching up the floor
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One of the best scenes in all of horror for severed hands. Watch and enjoy.
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Haiku – The Here and Now
Morning has arrived
Can’t wake up, groggy and tired
A rough way to start
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Sometimes a day at the beach is the only thing that will help. Too bad I don’t live near one. I can go there with this song though. I hope it takes you away as well.
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Poem – At the Park
Ripples at the water line
Lake gently breaks on the shore
Brown sand at my feet
Soft warm Earthly floor
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Haiku – The “Out with the Crickets” Run
Sunlight dropping quick
Daytime and nighttime converge
Sky explodes in red
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Really starting to feel like fall and look like fall as well – getting dark a lot earlier these days. Tonight, I was heading back through the park and crickets were jumping out of my way. That’s where the title came from in case you were wondering. Okay, who’s ready for fall? I know I am.
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3 Haiku
Misty drizzly day
Grey and fog-like atmosphere
Day starts out with gloom
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Jimmy Buffett plays
Like a wave, the music flows
A soft gentle ease
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Off to music class
My son and I together
Happy bonding time
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Haiku – Stranded in the Rain
Long black empty road
Out of gas, alone, tired, cold
Branch snaps in the dark
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Haiku – Saturday Shine
A liquid blue sky
Fluffy white clouds, sparse, scattered
Day filled with sunlight
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