smoky tendrils
rise and sprawl to the void,
so, too, the prayers?
Burnt [Haiku]
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Category Archives: Poetry
Mayan High Priest Limerick
A newly promoted Mayan High Priest --
queasy, but charged with bloodletting next feast.
Suggested a new style:
Lymph, sweat, milk, tears, or bile
Were offerings that made his odds of fainting decrease.
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Iguana Limerick
In Tulum, a lazy old Iguana
was asked to leave but said, "I don't wanna!"
They threated and chided -
reasoned and derided -
'til it left, bribed with good marijuana.
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Ger Limerick
There once was a nomadic ger-dweller
who had no garage, attic, or cellar.
But what it lacked in space
it made up for in pace
when ger turned to baggage from shelter.
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Solitude [Haiku]
Blank & Blue [Haiku]
sky -- blank & blue --
stretches mountain to mountain;
unseen raptor: "screech!"
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Frame of Reference [Free Verse]
a butterfly hangs
upside down,
but it seems upside down
is as meaningless an
an abstraction for it
as the two million km/h
that a human sweeps,
spins, expands, etc.
through space
is for the person who
feels only the couch
against his backside.
what must it be to not know
upside down -- to feel free
to fall, knowing the air
will catch one?
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Fungi Time [Haiku]
mushroom stands tall;
wasn’t there the day before,
may be gone the next.
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Understory [Haiku]
big-leafed saplings
line the understory:
wee cascade murmurs.
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Foggy Fort [Senryū]
high on a hill fort --
enshrouded in clouds;
one can see for... meters?
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