well-trodden snow is checked with long shadows from the afternoon sun
Long Shadows [Haiku]
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Beerplugs [Limerick]
There was a man with a fondness for beer. There was nothing else that he held so dear. Beer-goggles were his Cupid, & beerplugs muted his stupid: though it remained for the plugless to hear.
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Four on the Floor [Limerick]
A girl got herself an intrepid beau, but she'd long owned a vibrating dildo. "That thing has three speeds to exceed her base needs I'll need four, none too quick nor too slow."
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Grass Eats Steel [Haiku]
moss grows on steel. machine on the forest’s edge, swallowed by life
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Deceptive Landscape [Senryū]
soft, round hills under cottony clouds, yet the hike is so hard
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Entranced [Lyric Poem]
I see the lazy sway of trees across the way. And I'm lulled into trance by their languid leafy dance. And for the time I've lost there must be some unit cost. Or, perhaps, only gain. There was no angst or pain... only lost moments.
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Spillover [Haiku]
clouds top the green hills and threaten to spill over, but never do
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Mocking Monkey [Common Meter]
One day I passed a gray monkey, and something made me turn. I caught the primate in the act of issuing a burn. Its eyes were closed; its tongue stuck out. Its head twisted to tease. And when it saw me seeing it, for a sec, it did freeze. As if not a thing had happened, and it was not to blame. Before I could make my rebuke it multiplied my shame. by blowing me a raspberry followed by a big smirk. Then it scrambled away before I went truly berserk.
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Flying Fox [Haiku]
a flying fox circles in mid-day light: its prey, diurnal fruits
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In the Temple [Free Verse]
i enter an empty temple.
it’s not silent.
footfalls resonate
&
floorboards creak.
but flickering flames
&
sleepy-eyed Buddhas
are quiet enough
in an hour,
the monks will filter in
with great punctuality:
monks, young and old.
(i would say, “and ages in-between,”
but they all seem young or old.)
there will be chanting,
and the din of finger cymbals
and deep-toned drums.
and i will leave
for the solace
of the world
outside the temple.
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