a crow alights upon a flowery branch -- beak pointing at me
Crow Gaze [Haiku]
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Luddite Limerick
There was a crotchety old luddite who smashed all technology on sight... 'til he needed Google to look up "centrifugal" else it'd be the bus to the library at night.
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Napper / Stalker [Haiku]
from a sound nap, the cat's attention becomes single-pointed
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Into the Light [Free Verse]
crawling from the cave, like Plato's untethered shadow man a portal to perfection, as perfect as anyplace can be: meaning, it has depth & credibility the day is cloudy, and yet it's blinding, blinding to eyes attuned to the light of dancing orange flames, flames seen secondhand -- bounced off a wall, a dark, dank wall what amazing sights must there be - out there don't disappoint me now
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Snail Stealth [Haiku]
snail on a stone wall remains still for hours on end; on my next pass, gone
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The Optimist [Limerick]
A man laid down with a wound to the head. The doctor claimed he was already dead. "It's really not so bad. This one time I had two swords in my brain," the optimist said.
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Abbey Moon [Haiku]
(1899)
moonlight dances upon the gliding waters, before stout ruins
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Lightning Strike [Haiku]
shapeless darkness erupts in blinding form for an instant
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The Skepticism-less Skeptic [Limerick]
The philosopher, René Descartes, said, "I'll doubt everything, just to start." but once he "proved" God, what are the odds, the wheels rolled off his skeptical cart.
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Astronomical Fail [Limerick]
The astronomer Francesco Sizzi worked himself into a tizzy: "More rocks in space? There're seven holes in a face! Pssh! Galileo calls himself scientist, but is he?"
Note: When Galileo suggested Jupiter had moons, Sizzi summarily rejected the idea based on the “rationale” that there couldn’t be more than seven natural satellites because there are seven holes in a mammal’s head, seven days in a week, and [somehow] seven metals… ergo, seven astronomical bodies, maximum.
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