snowy mountains stand above a trickling stream, too cold to drip
Winter Landscape [Haiku]
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Ancestral Mathematics Limerick
A scholar who loved precise specificity was asked about his exact ethnicity. "That very much depends how far back one extends: I'm seven-eighths Brit, but all Kenyan - for simplicity."
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Strangler Fig Limerick
There was a man who lived in the jungle -oh! A fig took root in the roof of his bungalow. 'Twas a spotless hut, 'til the door grew shut, and the place was overcome by a fungal growth.
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Gothic Church Ruins [Haiku]
gothic cathedral: vault crumbled, floors moss green; nature reclaims
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Dream Limerick
There was a retiree named Graham who dreamt he was unprepared for an exam. "What a dream, you fool! You're sixty years out of school, and still have an impulse to cram!"
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Winter Moonlight [Haiku]
silver moonlight glints off the mid-winter thaw -- shining coldly
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Hypnotic Limerick
A hypnotic subject entered a trance, then clucked like a chicken and danced. "I didn't even ask you perform these tasks," said the hypnotist, looking askance.
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Metaphysical Limerick
A drunken old idealist philosopher got pulled over by a "pos'lif ossifer." "Oh, can't you see, my true self 's a tree, and you can't justly jail a conifer!"
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After the Quake [Haiku]
post-quake scaffolds, on the ancient temples, teach impermanence
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Lump of Color [Haiku]
drab winter forest. all is in earth tones, but one orange lump
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