a false blossom, that crawls with wasps, hangs from a bare branch
False Blossom [Haiku]
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Category Archives: Poetry
Faux-Autumn [Haiku]
two-season tropics: rain-slick yellow leaves fib that it's autumn
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Gold & Ripe [Haiku]
ripe grain turns gold, the year has matured like a person going gray
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Lusaka Limerick
There was a gambling man of Lusaka who was always running low on Kwacha. That's the money, you see, and despite ardent pleas when you're a gambler no one will spot 'cha.
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Eruption [Free Verse]
It's such a peaceful cone,
but I think of Krakatoa.
How much patience
can a volcano have?
It's got just the two speeds:
static & exploding.
A human, given those choices,
would choose to spend its time
in explosion.
The calm of perfect stillness
could last only so long
before it made one itch
and scream.
Someday, it will blow its
beautifully symmetric top,
leaving a jagged rim,
and smoking like a
postcoital movie character.
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Hitler Limerick
There once was a dictator named Hitler. He was vegetarian and wasn't a tippler. The moral seems clear: eat meat & drink beer. You'll still be much better than Hitler!
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Andy Warhol Limerick
There was an artist named Andy Warhol whose paintings sure enough weren't for all. Like a flimflam man he copied soup cans, and viewers saw [not Campbell, but] Warhol.
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Conflicted Botanist Limerick
There once was a Philosopher-Botanist who, on his jobs, had been an optimist. But he bred seedless fruits, and came to feel in cahoots with purpose-denying nihilist dogmatists.
