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Bitterness Is Smoke

December 15, 2009
By ElizabethW. DIAMOND, Oconto, Wisconsin
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Bitterness is smoke
Which suffocates the hateful soul
That won't let it go.

© Maria H., Cincinnati, OH

The author's comments:
This haiku is about bitterness, and how it always hurts the person who is angry rather than the person it's directed at.
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