Puppy - Part 3
Two years ago, I went into debt to try to save you.
But you passed away anyway, it's sad and it's true.
I paid thirteen hundred dollars with my credit card.
When it came to facing your death, it sure was hard.
When it came to saving your life, I certainly tried.
But sadly, on the seventeenth of August, you
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Categories:
3, animal, anniversary, death, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Volcano Run part 3 - Escaping the Ashfall
Part three
Once we were home, the bikes secure
we sealed the clubhouse, best we could
waiting for the ash to stop
but fearing that it never would,
All the TV news was dismal;
all predicting different things,
each with warnings dire and dreadful
of the dangers ashfall brings.
I dug out pairs of coveralls
and painter's masks for us to wear,
and cartons of
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Categories:
3, fun, journey, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
- Haiku X 372 - waterfall veil - shaped haiku 3 -
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Categories:
3, beauty, nature, water,
Form: Haiku
The Masnavi of Giti and Saeed - Part 3, 4 and 5
Part Three — Zuhrah's Song (1)
O knower of love and mystic's wine,
Sweet mistress of the dance divine!
With harp and lute she weaves her tune,
Her music soars beyond the moon.
A queen whose steed none can outrace,
While kings of every land give chase.
From dawn until the setting sun,
She sang of her beloved one.
"Sweet Giti," thus she named
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Categories:
3, cute love,
Form: Masnavi
4 2 1 DEY B 3 CORD TIED
4 2 1 DEY B 3 CORD TIED
4 2 1 dey B 3 cord tied
My beautiful soul
My lovely one
The only love
We have the same Father
We're son, you're daughter
And we all three B 1
Highlighting the strength and stability God you and I
Holy cord that's bond we bind
That
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Categories:
3, appreciation, community, god, husband,
Form: Lyric
Haiku Moments 3
#fly
I'm looking so fly
even groovy she says
in threads
from the retro store
#embrace #nonet
Let the night enfold our sacred bond
where shadows softly play for us,
suspending time in moments
of our blissful wishes
and tomorrow dreams~
why must daylight
then arrive
and love
end?
#visit
bumblebee
in the lobelia
a late lunch
#reminisce
tiger lillies can't
reminisce when there's no one
worth talking to
~'O
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Categories:
3, nature,
Form: Haiku
TRIADE 3 The Owl
A cheetah avoided the trap that night
And the wild cat escaped the shot.
Someone was there for them to learn
And each of them were taught.
The Bear had chosen to spare the cubs
For the ease of the Mother Bear.
But the man with the gun
Fell pray to own stun
And we didn't drop any tear.
"Was this
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Categories:
3, poetry,
Form: Free verse
To Sum Up Fall Using 3 Monokus
Sponsor: Rob Carmack - Contest Name '< 7'
Bare Autumn trees frowned - all their colorful leaves lay on the ground
Autumn holds them at bay – cold Winter winds want to come out to play
Seasonal work suited Autumn to a tee - rest of year fancy free
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Categories:
3, autumn,
Form: Monoku
A Porch Swing's Tale
A Porch Swing's Tale
The sun hangs low, a bruised peach in the sky
my old boots are caked with the red dust of a journey I never started
three
This here porch swing rocks on, steady and slow
but my soul feels like it's caught between the back porch and the front gate
somewhere between a hello and a goodbye,
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Categories:
3, sky,
Form: Other
Haiku of A modern day holocaust:3
Justice can’t be served
in Gaza blood soaked stained sands
200,000 lives massacre
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Categories:
3, 8th grade, anger, atheist,
Form: Haiku
Revised Nursery Rhyme No 3 - Little Miss Tough
Little Miss Tough
Sat on her duff
whining ‘bout ‘The Amerikan Way’
Along came a missile
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Categories:
3, america, fear, patriotic, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
3 Copper Coins, And The Kite Caught In The Telegraph Wire
The man was
handsome, intelligent,
and good in bed.
But he just
had nothing
to say.
And all of his days
were the same.
Monochromatic
introspection followed
by a sort of smothered
self-expression.
He never
felt like himself.
And he always felt
worried about what
other people thought
about him.
Who even was
he?
His routine?
His career?
His interests?
His beliefs?
Beliefs?
The man had
no beliefs, the
man didn’t need
to believe.
For if he started believing
in something, he may have
actually needed
to
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Categories:
3, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Matsuo Basho: English translations 3
Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about birds, flowers, candles, life, death.
Naptime!
But my drowsiness is nixed
by busybody warblers.
—Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Carolers:
the sparrows smile
at their warbling.
—Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Giving thanks to the flowers
for brightening my visit:
farewell.
—Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Melancholy nub!
The bamboo bud’s
sad end.
—Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael
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Categories:
3, bird, culture, death, flower,
Form: Haiku
Liberation step 3
light imbibed must be assimilated
present always in active cognition
when awareness is not agitated
God’s love and light is our heart’s emission
unbroken then remains His transmission
poised as such liberated while alive
we see God in each form in heart’s bliss hive
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Categories:
3, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Chiaroscuro
Backlit in life’s shadows –
the exacting burden of responsibilities –
you are lost.
Bathed in light amongst shadows
of trials and tribulations that
internal hope defrosts;
one can but surmise
your inner strength,
as the light bends to reveal the cost.
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Categories:
3, appreciation,
Form: Other
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