when you’re the family
go-getter, and yet you’re
a zoned-out mess.
Go-Getter [Senryū]
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Category Archives: Poetry
Winter Landscape [Haiku]
winter landscape
of barren trees & dry grass
warmed by a low sun
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Plane Contemplation [Haiku]
i look down to earth,
and wonder if anyone
is looking up
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Voltaire Clerihew
The Enlightenment thinker called Voltaire
beat the lottery to become a millionaire.
To the man, he did stick it,
by buying every ticket.
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Nietzsche Clerihew
The German philosopher Nietzsche pronounced his name using a schwa. that rhyme 's not perfected, but closer than expected.
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Plato Clerihew
The wise philosopher Plato tried classifying the potato: the edible rock? or, coldcock in a sock?
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Dormant [Haiku]
The Peacock Flower [Senryū]
for a peacock to look Peacock Flower-like, it must be on fire.
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Unimpressed [Tanka]
a stately building stands beside the river, commanding the eye. but that ancient river remains unimpressed.
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Fields of the Dead [Free Verse]
It's a beautiful day
in the graveyard.
Blue skies.
Cool, but not cold.
The ideal temperature
to be an overdressed military man.
Do ghosts amble among the stones
on days like these?
I imagine most of these men died
on quite different kinds of days:
Rainy, cold, muddy days.
Muggy, buggy, malarial days.
The kind of day that just won't end,
but to fold into a sleepless night.
How many died,
not from spall or Minié balls,
but because they just didn't have the will
to drag themselves through another day?
from exhaustion?
from demoralization?
How many died under beautiful blue skies
on an idyllic autumn day?
I don't know whether
there're good days to die,
and even less whether
there're good days to be dead.
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