{"id":7680,"date":"2006-05-28T17:37:52","date_gmt":"2006-05-28T22:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/05\/28\/memorial-day-2006-2\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:56","slug":"memorial-day-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/05\/28\/memorial-day-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"memorial day 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Memorial Day —
\nchoosing fireflies
\nover fireworks<\/p>\n

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the old protestor
\nsheds a tear
\nvietnam memorial<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

………… by dagosan<\/em><\/p>\n

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Arlington
\nthe tulips
\nwide open\u00a0<\/p>\n

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slave cemetery
\nthe tug of the current
\non willow fronds<\/p>\n

….. by Carolyn Hall
\n\u201cArlington\u201c- The Heron\u2019s Nest<\/em> (Sept. 2005)\u00a0
\n\u201cslave cemetery\u201d – tug of the current<\/em>; The Heron\u2019s Nest<\/em> V:12<\/p>\n

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the first notes
\nsqueezed from bagpipes
\nsmall town parade
\n\u00a0<\/p>\n

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cricket sounds \"cometB\"\u00a0<\/font>
\nrise into night
\nthe names of the dead<\/p>\n

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…. by Peggy Lyles from To Hear the Rain<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

long after
\nthe fireworks
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a shooting star<\/p>\n

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old tombstone
\nlosing its name
\nfaint first star<\/p>\n

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Burial
\nmourners and bare trees
\nblend<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"cometB\"\u00a0<\/font>……. by George Swede
\n\u201clong after\u201d –\u00a0 Almost Unseen<\/a><\/em> (2000)
\n\u201cold tombstone\u201d – The Heron\u2019s Nest
\n<\/em>“burial” – The Heron\u2019s Nest<\/em>\u00a0 (June 2005)<\/p>\n

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Remembrance Day
\n\u2014my insignificant wince
\nat the misdirected poppy pin<\/p>\n

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old folks\u2019 home
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the square of light
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 crosses the room<\/p>\n

…………….. by michael dylan welch
\n\u201cRemembrance Day\u201d – The Heron\u2019s Nest<\/em> (Dec. 2005)
\n\u201cold folks\u2019 home\u201d – Open Window<\/a><\/em> [photo-haiku pairs]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

midday heat
\none petal of the red poppy
\nsways<\/p>\n

…. by Pamela Miller Ness – \u201cSummerday, Puget Sound\u201d\u00a0 \"cometB\"\u00a0<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

missing in action
\nshe dusts off his guitar,
\nreturns it to the shelf<\/p>\n

…………………………………… by Randy Brooks
\nfrom WHR Vintage Haiku<\/em><\/p>\n

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Memorial Day-
\noverwintered in the sandbox
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 toy soldiers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…………………………. by Tom Clausen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Memorial Day — choosing fireflies over fireworks \u00a0 the old protestor sheds a tear vietnam memorial ………… by dagosan \u00a0 Arlington the tulips wide open\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 slave cemetery the tug of the current on willow fronds ….. by Carolyn Hall \u201cArlington\u201c- The Heron\u2019s Nest (Sept. 2005)\u00a0 \u201cslave cemetery\u201d – tug of the current; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[555,2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku-or-senryu","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1ZS","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12650,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680\/revisions\/12650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}