Tag Archives: poetry

Van Gogh Palette [Haiku]

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black-eyed susans
 nudge me into Van Gogh's world,
  but not too deeply.

Janus River [Haiku]

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the river's surface,
 glassy from above, looks
  choppy from the edge.

Cooter Query [Haiku]

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cooter cranes its neck:
 impulse to know greater than
  impulse to shelter.

Landscape Scars [Haiku]

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limestone hillsides
 slough to form lasting scars
  in a treed landscape.

Green Hills [Free Verse]

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fingers of forest
 interspersed with 
  fingers of pasture --

the hidden & 
 the exposed --
 
two kinds of danger:
 being seeable &
  being unable to see.

is the mind fearful
 of being exposed
  the same as the mind fearful
   of being confined?

Prepper Limerick

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Doomsday preppers prepare for Armageddon,
 neatly arranging food, supplies, and weapons.
   A combo of OCD
    & whooping hillbilly?
 I think I'll just let the warheads beckon.

Stag Beetle [Haiku]

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a stag beetle
 lifts pincers in warning;
  tender flesh at feet.

Hover Quandary [Haiku]

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a bee hovers
 between two wildflowers,
  in a quandary.

Duck Do-Si-Do [Haiku]

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a duck trio
 does a lazy do-si-do
  with eyes closed.

Retrograde [Haiku]

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once stately mansion,
 weedy & paint peeling:
  entropy incarnate.