rushing to the sea
red, gold bits of the forest
my dreams go with them
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I have had a life long interest in Haiku, and it is because of a teacher I had in high school who, also enjoyed this simple, sensitive but powerful 17 syllable expression.
On this World Teachers Day, let us celebrate not only the teachers who changed our lives in major way, but those who added to our lives, teachers like the teacher who introduced my class to a simple form of poetry. Who thought that teaching a class of working class and farm kids to write down their dreams was important.
