firecracker flowers pop amid a twiggy scene with explosive shapes
Firecracker Flowers [Haiku]
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Category Archives: Poetry
Indy Limerick
There was an old man from Indianapolis who - about the big race - was passionless, "it's far too many miles goin' nowhere with style; I wish I'd been born in Minneapolis!"
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Sun Wukong [Common Meter]
The Monkey King with magic staff outmatched monsters and gods, defying the Jade Emperor's edicts against all odds. He erased himself from out of The Book of Life and Death, and lived through the Crucible -- nearly holding his breath. Finally, the gods called Buddha, though some had their qualms, but the one thing Monkey couldn't do was leap from Buddha's palm.
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Icicle Lifecycle [Haiku]
icicles dangle over a rushing stream; by noon, only stream
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Mottled Maple [Haiku]
each mottled leaf displays unique artistry; green ones all look the same
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Cloud Palette [Haiku]
the setting sun paints clouds with a broad palette, bright white to ink black
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Shakespeare Clerihew
The Bard, the great William Shakespeare, made stony souls feel love, hate, and fear, but I'll cease to dote, in case he never wrote...
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A Farmer’s Reverie [Haiku]
with field cleared, the farmer leans on his scythe, and eyes cloud figures
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Squirrel Grind [Common Meter]
The squirrel's life 's an acorn hunt: forage and hide the nut. But a feeble mind requires that it hide them by the glut. Squirrel happiness is fragile no cache is big enough to be certain it'll make it through should the winter get rough. Oh, give me the tardigrade life, not a doubt it'll survive. No food, no water, vacuum of space and the thing 's still [bleeping] alive. Rather than gathering plenty, I'd rather need much less, or, at least, not be so mindless to hoard in great excess.
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Impending Cataclysm [Free Verse]
Everything is dull before the world changes. People live their rituals, complying with habits. But the world will change, change from one day to the next, and not the subtle, unceasing change -- perpetual and ubiquitous -- that has always been. No. This will be an eight megaton shift into the new, and nothing will ever be as it's always been. Never again. It will happen without warning or precursor -- without a hint that the world is about to be revealed, to be discovered to be something wholly different than anyone ever imagined. Welcome to the new now [prematurely speaking.]
