autumn. cloudless skies: cool blue
Autumn Blues [Haiku]
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Fell in a Well [Limerick]
There was a girl who fell in a well, but the well had steps, so all was swell. To not be a bore, she jumped ten times more, but back home had to explain her fishy smell.
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Plantation at Dusk [Haiku]
one coffee plant sticks out while all others fade into dusk
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Failing Daylight [Free Verse]
i walked the rutted road in failing daylight & wondered what I might find when it turned to night & milky moonlight would be the only means to see & i hear the relentless chirp of a bullfrog that can't be seen because it's everywhere to my non-directional ears but still i look for it & i step into a puddle & my sock is squishy with each left step & i go home
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Blossom Finder [Haiku]
in the savanna, a butterfly finds one bloom amid the dry plants
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Hypnotic Limerick
There was an anesthetist / hypnotist whose patients could never resist. 'Twas the even drone of his flat monotone. Even the surgeon fell asleep in his midst.
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Ganesha [Free Verse]
Ganesha: Obstacles removed & Good luck brought All yields to the elephantine forehead & elephantine learning Seemingly immovable when seated, but I've seen you swing; hoisted by a crane & dangled out over the water But the pendulum arc was short & stiff & precarious: as if it might flip the crane -- every remover of obstacles must leave a detritus of past obstacles in its wake
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Hamlet Limerick
Eugène Delacroix (1855)
There once was a wavering Prince of Denmark whose uncle replaced his dad as monarch. The ghost of his dad said, "Kill 'em, my lad!" Too bad he took that stab in the dark.
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Lazy River [Haiku]
Helen of Troy [Limerick]
There was pretty lady named Helen whose beauty had all the boys yellin'. No arrows from Cupid; her glance made 'em stupid. But did her face split a thousand melons?
