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Untitled Haiku #1

Curtis Carmen Davis 1973 (Savannah, TN)

Haiku
Twilight paints the sky.
Beyond sunset, I awake
--the watcher's reward.

About this poem

This poem was among about 20 or 30 or so haikus I was writing in the 2000s. It was chosen as the best out of them all in a class during that time period. It was first published in The Secret Life of Poets poetry magazine in 2017.

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Scheme ABC
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Stanza Lengths 3
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Curtis Carmen Davis

Curtis Carmen Davis is a Midsouth poet published in various regional publications in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi. He has received several Awards of Merit from the Nashville Newsletter Poetry Contests and won two essay awards for CCSB travel abroad study to London, Scotland, and later Ireland. In 2016, and 2017, he was published in The Secret Life of Poets poetry magazine. He lives in the misty mountains of East Tennessee. He likes to draw and paint in his spare time. more…

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