the butterfly
that i’d thought dead
just fluttered off.
Winged Deception [Haiku]
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Category Archives: poem
The City Sees [Free Verse]
The city sees like Santa Claus.
Every misdeed is captured.
Every lost soul is whereabouts known --
known but not shared.
The city sees all,
but it does keep secrets...
sometimes.
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Cloud Ceiling [Haiku]
cloud touches hill as if it's resting on it. smell of spring rains.
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Midsummer Masquerade [Haiku]
rainy summer day masquerades as early spring, while noon plays dusk.
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Coastal Wetlands [Haiku]
those flat wetlands might stretch out for miles, or, maybe, inches?
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Traveling Salesman Limerick
A man who sold marital aids door to door heard from a husband in an uproar. "An 'aid' for whom? It can't be the groom. Your product has three speeds, so I now need four."
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Duty-Free Limerick
There once was a lazy sales clerk who didn’t want clients to think her a jerk. The solution, you see, was the airport duty-free, where there’d be no obligation to work. [And the salary would be a nice perq.]
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Feather in Water [Haiku]
feather in water refuses to be removed, rolls from each grasp.
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Limerick of Confucius
The great Chinese philosopher Confucius wrote in maxims to avoid being circumlocutious. [That's a word that absurdly describes being wordy.] Be like Confucius, not like this verbose doofus.
Tiger Riding for Beginners 