Best Add Poems

Form: swap quatrain/senyru utilised for experimental haibun
Inspired by a photograph from the performance piece: "To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain" by Zhang Huan

"Beyond the mountain, there are mountains" 
Traditional Chinese Proverb

stop and analyse, don't linger without moving 
contemplation of a moment can be...

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Pythagoras once fell off a ladder
And landed on a venomous adder
This adder couldn't add
Calculus made it sad
Algebra and theorems made it madder....

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2/4/19
"Nothing Else To Add"

Thinking clearly
I wrote this sincerely
From the one you regard dearly
Nearly
Everybody having theories
Times getting eerie
Yearly

It didn't always turn out ideally
She really
Wanted to get touchy and feely
Telling me how she could heal me
After I did some wheelies
Next she said feel free
To take her up...

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We Cannot Add To HIS Work!

We cannot add to the work of the cross, nor can
we take away from its value!  JESUS, HIMSELF
said just before HE died on the cross, “It Is 
finished”!!  Why would we want to add or take
away anything from...

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Marbles, marbles! I've lost my marbles. 
I don't know where they are. 
I know I had them recently, 
So they can't have gotten far. 

Blast it all! My marbles. 
Where have I gone and left them? 
I used them just the other day. 
I was...

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Old and new, rich and poor, and
  those of whom you're not quite sure
school and work, and some on the block
  others of whom you oughta take stock

Fair-weather or true-blue
  they've all supported you --
Yet as on your journey you wend
 ...

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If you don't have anything good to say
Don't say anything 
Shut up
Or
Put up
Or are you just wasting space 
A pen without a face or a pad
A modern pop fad
Trying to be bad 
Because no 1 answered your Add...

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When life gives you lemons,
squeeze out every drop.
Have you a drink, 
because thats all you've got.
The taste maybe bitter
But in time, that will change.
Just add a little sugar
Sweetness goes a long way...

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If A can C
And D can B
where does that leave me

And if E equal F
Then what's the difference
And G plus H minus I
I have nothing left but J

So come join me 
And don't be afraid
K L N M O please
Q the questions it's Greek to...

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God created the Earth
And stood back to see.
What more did it need-
Maybe some green trees?

It needed more color
To make it look its best,
So he created all the flowers
Just to add a little zest.

Roses, violets, and lilies of the valley,
Snapdragons, azaleas, poinsettias, and dahlias,
Chrysanthemums, marigolds, zinnias...

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Boss 
- See this!
Illegal Alien
-Just a moment
That's fine! You made it?!
Boss
-That's AN ADDDDD
Illegal Alien
-give me just a second,
Boss
-Can You Guys See This-

ADV


(I wonder how many hours I have to put in for the add-Illegal Alien thinking- and then how many more to fill in the...

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Instead of acting like you’re in mourning
Add a smile and say good morning

Instead of walking around with a frown
You can be happy without being a clown

Instead of taking every chance to give others a poke
Why not just sharing with them a funny joke

All young kids...

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The world's just not the same
This empire in decline
Roses don't smell as sweet
Only grow half their size

And I say....

Baby, doesn't it make you feel sad inside?

And I say...

Baby, doesn't it make you want to cry?

Let's protect ourselves 
From the coming flood
Won't need no bullets
Just our...

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Entice the essence of the word 
A lexicon of value heard 
A luxury of words astute 
With salutation and salute 

Inside this circle, only squares 
And children point with double dares 
A solo singer comes in pairs 
While stepping down to climb the stairs 

I'm...

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Restlessness, impulsiveness,
loquaciousness, compulsiveness,
distracted inattentiveness 
and tangent railway tracks.

Complexities, anxieties 
and dopamine deficiencies.
Instant gratification please,
relief for my synapse.

Procrastination, wired sensation,
biochemical frustration,
forget to take my medication. 
Frontal lobe relapse.

Rapid heartbeat, fidgety feet,
hypervigilant, unable to sleep,
central nervous system freak.
Neurological cracks....

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