ripe grain turns gold, the year has matured like a person going gray
Gold & Ripe [Haiku]
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Lusaka Limerick
There was a gambling man of Lusaka who was always running low on Kwacha. That's the money, you see, and despite ardent pleas when you're a gambler no one will spot 'cha.
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Eruption [Free Verse]
It's such a peaceful cone,
but I think of Krakatoa.
How much patience
can a volcano have?
It's got just the two speeds:
static & exploding.
A human, given those choices,
would choose to spend its time
in explosion.
The calm of perfect stillness
could last only so long
before it made one itch
and scream.
Someday, it will blow its
beautifully symmetric top,
leaving a jagged rim,
and smoking like a
postcoital movie character.
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Hitler Limerick
There once was a dictator named Hitler. He was vegetarian and wasn't a tippler. The moral seems clear: eat meat & drink beer. You'll still be much better than Hitler!
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Andy Warhol Limerick
There was an artist named Andy Warhol whose paintings sure enough weren't for all. Like a flimflam man he copied soup cans, and viewers saw [not Campbell, but] Warhol.
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Conflicted Botanist Limerick
There once was a Philosopher-Botanist who, on his jobs, had been an optimist. But he bred seedless fruits, and came to feel in cahoots with purpose-denying nihilist dogmatists.
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Buddha Still [Haiku]
A Moment of Stillness [Haiku]
5 Thought-Provoking Quotes I’ve Read Recently
Nothing records the effects of a sad life as graphically as the human body.
Naguib mahfouz (in Palace of desire)
Religion is recognized by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius annaeus seneca (via edward gibbon)
Comparison is the thief of joy.
theodore roosevelt
I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.
Epicurean Epitaph
My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind.
william james
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Iced Wings [Haiku]
ice crystals form on helicopter seed pods; will they fly or crash?
