post-quake scaffolds, on the ancient temples, teach impermanence
After the Quake [Haiku]
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Category Archives: Poetry
Lump of Color [Haiku]
drab winter forest. all is in earth tones, but one orange lump
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Desert Mystery [Haiku]
tracks in sand stretch dune after dune; no life in sight
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Warm Light [Haiku]
warm light strikes the ruins, and - briefly - they are new
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“Anguish” [Haiku]
mother bleats a cloud, standing over its dead lamb -- ringed by a murder
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Backwaters [Haiku]
thin strip of land between sprawling waters: landlubber's nightmare
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Mystic Limerick
A mystic sought to be one with all things, but couldn't make it, allowing no strings, "I'm a little bit torn: one with rose equals thorn, and one with bees invites many a sting."
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Lizard Look [Haiku]
a lizard slinks up to the stone's edge, turning an eye on me
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Fuchsia Fuchsia [Haiku]
in the night forest, light catches two flowers: Fuchsia in fuchsia
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A Midsummer Night’s Limerick
Four Athenian youths fled out to the trees, lacking the love geometry to put hearts at ease. It might've been tragic, but Puck worked his magic. They returned by twos, not ones or threes.
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