There you sit in a boxless box -- unmoving, but thinking about moving. Then, stretching one trembling hand out to its fullest extent, you feel fingers press into nothing, but a hard kind of nothing.
Boxless Box [Free Verse]
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Tag Archives: poetry
Falling Leaf [Free Verse]
A falling leaf is my teacher. It craves nothing. It fears nothing. It surrenders itself, but does not submit. It will not be hemmed in for long, for its patience is infinite.
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Kathmandu Limerick
A proprietor of old Kathmandu epitomized the spirit can-do, selling hippies and monks neckties and swim trunks, and even sold ascetics kazoos.
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Crab Phalanx [Haiku]
Four Eyes [Haiku]
the glint in the eye
makes it look round and lustrous,
though it’s a moth wing
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Kuala Lumpur Limerick
Two builders working in Kuala Lumpur vied to outdo each other's grandeur; but one tower is straight, and the other one ain't. So, I guess we know who won that war.
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The Murder [Kyoka]
a murder of crows
congregates on the concrete,
and I feel angst.
sure, I’m smarter than a crow…
but smarter than the murder?
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Harvest Cycle [Common Meter]
The field is neat; the stalks are baled; the grain sits in baskets to be carried back home to dry on thin sheets of plastic. The chaff will be cracked from the grain so that it can be ground into flour, and baked into bread that I'll eat sans a sound as I enjoy the view.
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Jaipur Limerick
There was an old painter from Jaipur who painted ceilings, floors, walls, and doors. 'Til his boss raised a stink, and said, "Paint it all pink!" "I've not enough pink cans for that chore."
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Claw Harvesters [Common Meter]
The crab, it had one tiny claw; it couldn't be its first. What kind of species harvests limbs? Oh, they must be the worst.
