| Childhood |
City |
Cyber Space |
| Doorways |
Friendship |
History |
| Nature | Seasons | Water |
| Random |
Childhood |
Dancing in the rain Stomping mud puddles – splish, splash New red galoshes |
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| Dew on pedals, bugs, Rainbows, pots of gold, daydreams, Morphing cloud-shapes seen, Creepy monsters under beds Midnight flights on dragon back |
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| Screams in the pillow Darkness like a shadow comes Innocence shattered |
Glitter on my face, Squishy stuff and glue to eat Kindergarten times |
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| Afraid of the dark Boogie man gonna get me Mama can’t see him Crouched in the closet hiding Waiting for lights out – and me. |
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| Conquered all with pride Monkey bars, swings, slide Playground champion |
School days taught me well Reading, writing, ‘rithmatic Knowledge is power |
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| Remembering Two: Walking ‘round on tipsy-toes Parks and Zoos to see Running bare-butt and carefree Sand and dirt all over me |
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| Childhood memories Wondrous pearls on a string, Cherish them always |
Sweet angel kisses On down so light, such sweet dreams Blessed on you tonight |
City |
Plucky patches grow Forcing color upon gray Spring Dandelions |
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| Hypodermic trails Sticky residue splashed ‘round Piled broken bottles Hidden places known yet not Unseen by all, left to rot |
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| Cracked sidewalks, potholes Basketball hoops with no nets Electric wires Plastic bag tumbleweeds blow Concrete concentration camps |
Unwashed people stand Begging for scraps in the street Holding up their signs “Will work for food, family To feed” stinking of whisky |
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| Stretching on for miles Identical houses stand All in a row like Tin men on a battlefield But with whom are they at war? |
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| A single tree stands Reaching for the smoggy sky Trying to breathe as Thousands of cars putter by Tis a lonely way to die |
Smelly trash dumpsters Behind every building sits Adding their fragrance To the city air; perfume So sweet it can make you gag. |
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| Feral animals Running wild in the shadows Fighting for the scraps Found left over by humankind Where have the night children gone? |
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| Bum on a park bench Sleeping in wine soaked slumber On a winter night Under newspaper blankets Urban antifreeze in use |
Prowling the darkness Like animals on the hunt Found in roving packs One, alone and afraid, gone Absorbed; now part of the gang |
Cyber
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Who are you out there, anonymous to the world, sharing my life in cyberspace? Truth is only virtual reality. |
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| hardware and software nasty financial sinkhole essential upgrades |
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| digital gateway cyberspace and worlds beyond welcome to the web |
use zeros and ones digital computation for binary math |
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| ICQ today instant communication can’t wait to log on |
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| surfing the net, now in my underwear virtually dressed |
so many chatrooms welcome to the loony bin never know who’s there |
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| all knowledge a mouse click away true or false? |
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| sitting and staring at a screen all day, typing my virtual life |
blogging every night a chronicle of my life viewable by all |
Doorways |
Closed doors, no way out turning, twisting, can not see darkness surrounding can not breathe, closing in tight no relief in sight, help me. |
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| Unlimited paths forks untold, myrid of doors hence, our lives unfold |
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| lives drifting between portals opening and closing here and there, no end |
wooden frame, creaky hinges, ivy trailing up both sides - but no knob |
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| Flung wide open - Come! Enter me they beckon - See! What we behold - You! |
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| Two doors to pick from Salvation or Damnation walk the path you chose |
portals to the soul wide open with fresh wonder a new born babe's eyes |
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| rectangles, circles in all shapes and sizes doors come wide open and closed tight |
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| Opportunity admission to a man's soul seeds planted will grow |
open up a book search, learn, discover, explore open up a mind |
Friendship |
secrets whispered low giggles often to follow friendship in the dark |
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| Late night phone calls, long wordy e-mails with pictures attached, just to talk. Conversations concerning nothing, telling everything. |
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| true friends grow near or far, they are together |
silver and gold shine in the sunlight; friendship basks in glowing heartlight |
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| Heart felt agony - death's touch claiming he whom I love much tears fall, my soul rent blood welling from flesh fresh torn now two lives unwisely spent |
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| Clandestine meetings quick kisses, a touch or two friends, lovers, or both? |
you are the center of your universe; your friends are your satellites |
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| interpersonal relationships; nexus of intangible webs of heart strings - powerful things interconnecting us all |
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| Weddings, birthdays, deaths, births, and anniversaries, true friends remember |
Friends and lovers breed strange things: anger, jealousy, even wedding rings |
History |
times are a'changin' spinning' quick outta control now who's at the helm? tell me please I gotta know a real person or cruise control? |
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| Treading roads travelled Those well worn before our birth Must we follow fate? Turning from ancestral paths Is the toughest choice we make. |
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| Chronicle Bound to turn again History |
life, love, liberty freedoms granted us by birth our constitution? |
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| Times change as they will Bard's song, News cast, Town Crier Times change not at all Wars, famine, greed, lust, desire Assassination, death, fire |
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| Learning from the past Looking toward the future Hoping for the best |
war, famine, and death bringers of hatred, disease corruptions of man |
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| cometh the bard song to bring news of man beyond our shores to teach us the ways for us not to go the ways for us not to be |
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| Lessons learned all time flowing pass less unlearned |
A victory gained loss sustained, heavy debt paid lessons wrote in blood |
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| sing, sing grandmother telling stories past gone by chant, chant, grandfather of days before your young eyes give us the wisdom of your years - tell of the Trail of Tears |
Nature |
Marching in a row Following the scent trail laid Working for their queen. |
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| Green and blue Mosquito fighters Dragonflies |
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| Bloodsuckers Small vampire-like Mosquitoes |
Snow-in-Summer blooms A blanket of white on green Flowers so pretty grow |
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| Green, wiggly, crawly, Hunching its way up a tree See the inchworm go |
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| Striped yellow and black Sips nectar and spreads pollen Bumblebees at work |
A leaf on a twig Hiding in plain sight, hungry Praying Mantis waits |
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| Newly emerged, wet Slowly pumping unfurled wings Glorious color Searching antennae, sensing Time to fly is nigh -- rebirth |
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| Hairy vine Tripod leaves, white fruit Poison Ivy |
Silver, silken thread woven delicately there where the spider waits |
Random |
owls hooting in trees echoes of bull frogs singing the forest at night |
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| whirlpools sucking oars slick canoe speeding along lazy afternoon |
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| the fish aren’t biting poor worm drowns under water fastened to the hook |
bonny boy first to steal my heart love forever |
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| ink on my fingers paper strewn around my desk one writer at work |
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| people in my head yammering up a storm on lives they’ve never lived |
boys’ soprano sing crying out to god above chorus of angels |
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| a gaggle of boys giggling in the dark of night innocence at play |
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| a speck in the sky wings spread wide, riding thermals bald eagle flying |
one hundred haikus written by my hand this month I’m glad it’s over |
Seasons |
Awakening
Soul ample sowing of the seed maturation comes death throws, labor pains, fruit bore heavy slumber, life eternal |
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| Soft grass,
warm sun, rain moon lit nights, walks on the beach dew at dawn, then frost blankets toasty fire, cuddling crisp days, snow, the seasons change |
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| graceful
bare branches reaching for snow laden clouds winter's dance begins |
trick or
treat Halloween is here get your goods |
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| new birth,
candy hearts, green beer, queer fools, pastel eggs, planting trees, earth day, memories, red - white - and blue, screams, vets, fowl, pie, mistletoe |
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| Blooms,
green leaves falling, crunching, dead bare branches |
oh so blue is the sky in the springtime, yeah. |
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| Celestial
Dancers, Perpetually partnered for eternity from east to west locked in step as the seasons pass on by |
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| Fragrant
breezes blow pollen laden bees buzz by spring is in the air |
delicate
pink, sweet apple blossoms in full bloom now spring has arrived |
Water |
Pelting, pouring down a gushing flow effusing everything with wet. |
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| glistening faceted, frigid an ice cube |
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| winding, twisting streams carving paths into granite through the centuries |
ghostly grey hanging just above chilling fog |
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| crystal shores and diamond beaches in my dreams |
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| in cytoplasma bringing life to all living things - size withstanding |
chilly wet I hate the cold rain ick water |
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| Calm waters Lapping at the shore so I drift |
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| Snow capped mountains melt and flow down to crowning peaks rising and falling gently sweeping evergreen dreams to cerulean seas |
From a coral throne Poseidon directs ocean traffic waving his trident to and fro and up and down causing the waves above |