There once was a Grand Inquisitor -- a most unpopular visitor. His knock at your door meant you were done for. He could paint even a saint sinister.
Spanish Inquisition Limerick
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Category Archives: poem
Eger Limerick
There was a cranky old man from Eger who was prone to curse and to swear. He was really a jerk to Mongols and Turks, billing them for medieval fortress repair.
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Rice Field [Haiku]
young rice in mud
awaits paddy flooding rains;
i seek shelter
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Sunflower Field [Haiku]
Made Ya Look [Senryū]
Mesmerizing Monkeys [Haiku]
Birds Wheel About [Free Verse]
a flock of pigeons mills about in a lazy dance, pecking and shifting then explode into panicked flapping, as they wheel about, gaining spontaneous unity, reaching investigation mode, they bank heavily, like a C-130 gunship -- a Puff the Magic Dragon -- pivoting onto a target
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The Last Unvanished [Haiku]
a cluster of trees
stands out against the gray:
the last unvanished
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Nature [Free Verse]
it's beauty & chaos & pristine vistas & unfiltered slop soup & kungfu fighting animals, madly mauling each other but it's also creatures pulling critters of another kind out of the mud pits sea turtles keeping afloat sailors pitched overboard it moves in mysterious ways, but never malicious ways it's savage & vicious, but knows not evil -- for evil is solely the domain of the labeling class it knows not virtue either, the closest it knows to goodness is the experience of experience the Now, a moment unfolding with the least possible effort, and with no thought whatsoever
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A Madman’s Lament [Common Meter]
Sitting naked beside the road, stripped of all I'd once owned. I see a flower stare at me, and recall being stoned. The painful thumps upon my flesh, the cracks internal heard, the racing breath, the anxious feel as my sight slowly blurred. What crime is madness, I wonder? What is it to be free? A slap to faces of all those tied to the old birch tree?
