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                      Three Haiku

                      Published by John Chapman at September 24, 2024
                      Categories
                      • Poetry
                      Tags
                      • crack
                      • display
                      • glaze
                      • John Chapman
                      • masks
                      • spring love
                      • winter storms

                      Image created onCanva

                      This series of haiku were inspired by ceramic masks made by Lynda Anderson.


                      Masks

                      Clay heads on display.
                      Rough nudge on fall dusting day.
                      Calm gaze; Oribe glaze.

                      Impermanence

                      Nothing lasts for long.
                      Spring love; burns bright. Cracks appear.
                      Once heated; now cool.

                      Face Off

                      Masking some problems
                      Repress, regress, cracks do form.
                      Most don’t winter storms.


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                      John Chapman
                      + postsBio

                      John Chapman is a retired counselor, EdD in Counseling Psychology. Career counselor with teenagers for thirty years., after retirement, worked part-time as a career counselor at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. Taught. Part time at Western Michigan University. He resides in Kalamazoo, MI, and has published three chapbooks and has a YouTube channel, Poemography,
                      narrated words with graphic images. John is currently battling cancer while pursuing creative endeavors.

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