Best Ku Poems

Haiku Princess
I Bow to your pen
"Skat", Are you an Angel?

Inspiration the Poem - Haiku Rally ( 11/16/2011 )
Dedicated to "Scat - Oz"       Respectfully Flipper

Author's note - I think this is a Question-Ku
4-5-6. Thank-you " Scat"...

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a very loud noise
started ringing from my clock—
I fell out of bed

a bumped water glass
rolling across the hard floor—
I slipped on my head

a loud screaming sound
resonated through the house—
my face turned bright red

my husband woke up
hysterically laughing—
I was on the floor

I could not get up
without...

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Hai-ku

Hi, cute,
High coo
Hai ,who?


S.Jagathsimhan Nair, 30 mar 17,
for Brian Strand's contest...

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We are all essentially African. That's where humanity first took birth.
Some then left Africa to populate every land mass on planet earth.
Those of us who remained in equatorial Africa kept our very dark protective skin.
It served as a natural sun block, 
preventing harmful ultra violet...

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~   O2 depleted

               each icy step is labored ...

                    ...

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With fascist fist, white CHAUVINist (whose christian name is Drek)
hailed pearly Knights in Kevlar tights who spurn the ebon fleck,
and joined the Kops enforcing stops which keep black pawns in check.

Floyd feared the Kops (most drenched in drops that racial rules distill),
so long confined, entrapped,...

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if Basho’s frog jumps
and no one hears the splash
katydids quarrel


does the sound
of one hand clapping
surprise the wind


cold mountain winds
an eerie sound of echoes
humming to themselves


a brown tinged cornfield
withers in the heat
as scarecrows weep


an empty birdfeeder
rattles in the breeze
a patient cat waits


city thunderstorm
awakened asphalt artist
oily painted...

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soft as silk I switch your solitude for sublime – savoring snuggles
           rippled reverie rapids flow in resonance – rhapsodic romance



-December 31, 2019-
ku duet Poetry Contest 
-Silent One-...

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a masked diner
seeking satiation
                     .....table for one

two hands touching
violating the new norm
             ...

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frail shadows tremble on winter’s garden wall where limbs of bare trees sway

after winds surcease - heavy with tranquility. . . trees with ermine coats


Dec 31, 2019 For the Ku Duet Contest of Silent One...

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Haiku refocus
the dalliance of the muse
into a moment

John G. Lawless
©6/9/2023...

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guns bought for defense
could be used for injury
in or out of home
~*~
01/25/13...

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dewdrops on grass bed
emanate pearly silence –
wet footsteps shadow...

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trigger fingers flex
innocent victims crumple
questions unanswered


For the "Gun"-o-ku poetry contest sponsored by Gwendolen R....

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luna moth-dancing with starlight on the petal of a winter rose
chrysalis cocoon-butterflies with gilded wings-singing songs in spring





1/1/2020


Placed 1st
ku duet
Contest Judged:  1/4/2020 
Sponsored by: Silent One...

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