Haiku Matching Contest Human Affairs

(select your favorite for each pair and write it in the box below the pairs)
(then select favorites of those pairs, etc... until one is the top pick)

in his arms that warming smell safe and secure	50 years pass we still kiss for the first time	holding hands I carefully step over the fallen tree	scattered pink petals surround my feet I miss a step

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thinking of you I burn the toast black	summer quarrel I use her insults	yellow dandelion I ask him if he's happy	kitchen light flickers, I turn my head as you try to kiss me
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secret burden she takes a walk through the park	October frost her birthday passes in silent remembrance	bruised tailbone the cherry pie lands upside-down	in the jewelry store my sister jumps newly pierced ears

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first boat of the season dropped back into the lake	not a fish biting except for both guys fishing beside me	rush of water I no longer know the face staring back	foot asleep I try to become aware... of something else