squall line coming: the rains will freshen the fort, those walls grown green.
Green Front [Haiku]
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Category Archives: Poetry
Burning Sensation [Free Verse]
What's this world?
It's energy playing a game,
a game whose goal is to be rid
of an intense burning sensation,
a burning sensation caused by
low-entropy energy sitting
around with nothing else to do
but burn brightly.
We, the wasters of energy, are
a soothing lotion to the universe,
expediting the making high-entropy,
soothing, tepid energy from
all those stars --
i.e. the universe's poison ivy.
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Midday Fish Market [Haiku]
a fish market, broken down for the day -- yet, its scent still grows.
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Hamlet’s Revenge [Limerick]
A befuddled Prince from Denmark's Elsinore was asked by his dad's ghost to even a score: "Old Claude poisoned my ear, wed (-n- shtupped) my wife, dear. So, please ensure that he lives, Nevermore!"
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Ecosystem’s End [Haiku]
topping the ridge, the pine forest ends, & desert begins.
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Wildflowers [Haiku]
wildflowers wave on an otherwise still lea. bells in the distance.
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Have You Seen a Tree Bleed? [Free Verse]
Have you seen a tree bleed?
Yes. I've seen a tree bleed.
It bled bright red arterial blood...
or sap --
but not that sticky, very viscous
kind of sap that one knows from Maples.
This was the consistency of blood,
as well as its color.
It's disconcerting to see
the scratched bark of a tree
ooze a fluid so blood-like.
It makes one question
one's assumptions,
such as whether a tree feels:
a scratch or cut or the nail
pounded into its trunk to
hang something for one's
momentary convenience.
And when I see lover's initials
carved into a tree, I now can't help
but wonder how the lovers would feel
about the tree's initials being carved
into their flesh.
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Bent Blade [Haiku]
a skipper sits on a bent grass blade; then leaves. the blade stays bent.
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Summer Sun [Haiku]
Suspect Alterations [Common Meter]
To say you love, but require change
is so deeply fishy.
To mold the nature of your love
as if her soul were squishy.
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