Best Eureka Poems

Eureka - a love song Tanka series
~ art by Edward Burne-Jones ~

It's a fair question:
as you smile that smile, you ask
how much I love you…
"You are constant as the sun
   ...and I am Copernicus"

As you close your eyes,
you ask how far I'd travel
to show I love you:
"Love, you are the seven seas
 ...

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The Bard stopped at Footscray
on the road to Ballarat
he was researching The Eureka Stockade
not Romeo and Juliet
he imagined the miners
manning the barricades
police bullets flying
hoisting The Southern Cross
and dying....

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Oft' 'tis said and I've thought it mighty strange

   That not a word seems to rhyme with 'orange'

      And though some I may displease

         With poetic license please

            A...

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where are my glasses?

aha! at last I found you

sitting on my nose...

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Eureka!

It was the final admittance of humanism, 
Of god’s non-existence and silent hello, 
Which suggested there was some realism, 
In the synoptic that to earth he did go. 

From that half man half lion mini statue, 
To the parents of that naughty Eden pair, 
Through the cold desert Moses so knew,  
God became human,...

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Release the shelter of bare feet,
     rhinestones on big toes sparkle.
The tentacle-shine of sunwheat
     on the scrapyard-swig of river.

Like a sunflower, the mudlark
     shuts her eyes, complexion
surrenders to the sun’s spark
     as sighs rush about cool ankles.

This lackadaisical leisure...

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EUREKA

This scientist researched hard on AI
To make a robot that would bathe and dry
While taking shower in bathroom
Saw his wife enter with a broom
He ran out naked with eureka cry.

April 22, 2018...

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I belonged to a family of farmers, we had farmed for generations;
And we were true to our land, as blooms loyal to sweet sensations.

I knew the fierce satisfaction, only derived from working the land;
And sometimes it delivered surprises, yielding more than planned.

We worked a large Kansas farm, my siblings, our families and me,
As creamy stars...

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I 
just
worked 
out how to
tell somebody
their breath is bad
without hurting their
feelings; ‘I’m so bored,
lets go and brush our teeth’...

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They become...
Ubiquitous in society, gullible slaves with no empathy
Until the man with depression seeds something quite extraordinary
At mental-illness-hall-of-dance spectacular.
Public performance was buffoonery...
He screamed love,  stated peace and cried eureka.
Hence one smiled, another embraced their lover,
Simultaneous nodding, quiet giggle, a boisterous laugh, a little kiss,
Timing, noting, recording.
They found their place, all of them
Whilst cultivating others...

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The old miner toils,
Searching mother earths spoils,
Tunnel dark and dingy,
Old wheel barrow wingy,
He has been there for all time,
Why? For no reason, no rhyme,
Oblivious to life up above,
Never feeling human touch nor love,
His one true love the gold he moves,
A demanding mistress she proves,
She is his one true calling,
Captivating, mysterious, enthrawling,
Dreaming of eureka cries,
Until the...

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Remember when that flash of insight
last self-ignited in your expectant thoughts
blasting away the fog of uncertainty, complexity and doubt.
A sudden aha Eureka answer, pure, simple, so succinct, beautiful.
To some this flash of aha is called duration, or a blink. insight, acumen, Eureka!

But, my friend, how, why, when, where, do these Aha moments arise?
Can we conger...

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EUREKA

She found it — the fountain of life sans bliss.
Her wrinkles did hide with a gulp and hiss.
Though boobs it did lift,
she gluttoned the gift!
O dear — she does flail in the great abyss.

12/26/2018
Contest: Bawdy Limerick
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin...

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Ends usher beginnings, pristine and new,
since we cannot cross the same river twice,
thus in time stretched peace, watching life renew,
each breath intake is felt as paradise.

Ah, to be awake, whilst calm like a lake,
irrespective of vagaries of fate,
in vibrant emptiness, nothing at stake,
having risen beyond mundane debate.

With both mood and mode, embrace and release,
presence leaving...

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Consider this; 
The falling apple bangs your head,
Obvious conclusions to draw,
Yet fantastical, even mystic,
Frozen thoughts begin to thaw,
And lubricate the mind once thick,
Then suddenly Eureka! Conundrum read.


A case in point;
Woozy Jean is sozzled at the bar,
And Joe approaches leering spilling drink,
Familiar scene is painted here again,
She misses sex so it ain’t the time to think,
Why...

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