Best Limb Poems

Hitch-hiking on the road of yellow bricks
I took a chance upon a passing whim
It ferried me where thins grow out from thickes
Turns out, I found myself out on a limb

Imagine, on a limb and at my age
How could I get my feet back on the...

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on one gold-leafed limb
where shadows now sooner    fall. . .
a forsaken nest


Posted 8/12/2010
For 'Favorite Nature Haiku' Contest
Sponsor: Constance La France...

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Smack dab in the heights 
a moment missed 
where cracks crease 
the self-destruct
unnoticed 
in the reality
that life evolves
enveloping every step
up the ladder
surveying tattered seams
costs of lovers dreams
and then you fall
or fail
to see the lessons
and what they truly mean...

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waves to me in wind
leaves flagging spring’s fast defeat
summer’s shady win.


May 8, 2016
Short Poetry Contest...

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Similar to a leg ripped loose
you learn to hobble on crutches
but like a phantom limb
the amputation still throbs
long after the wound has closed

Those few precious seconds
between sleeping and waking
you are as you once were
then the awful will of God dawns
then it’s oh yeah, my leg...

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Blissful he appears
Enjoys nature’s habitat --
Survival instinct

We have missed something
Only man kills for greed, sport --
We are devolving



*Entry for John Freeman's "Natural and Beyond" contest (Haiku first, then Senryu)...

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Went out on a limb and lost my way 
burned all the bridges I know
a drove of seagulls passed me by  
flapping their wings, they waved goodbye 
Now I'm heading your way,  
and I pray the ocean leads me home.  

July 31,...

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Eagle On A Limb

The faraway gaze
of an eagle on a limb
is mesmerizing.
           ***

Note:
   The eagle in Chinese paintings is symbolic for heroism, and when portrayed in a pine tree, symbolizes strength combined with...

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I'D GO OUT ON A LIMB                                       ...

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I felt I’d been to hell and back before we reached the reedy flat,
where the cattle mobbed before we crossed the stream.
Old Harry called me over, taking off his battered hat
“This is where she died so it does seem”.

He pointed to a river gum that...

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Tail swingin’ from branch to branch
Leaves rustling rush
Trapeze artistry 
Burlesque style
Noonday sun
Way more than fun.

Evolution eschewed fur
so the people could make clothes
‘cause they like to be busy
and pretty
and are easily bored.
Or perhaps God didn’t want people to play in trees
without their clothes on
at least not...

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So tightly squeezed shut
Is the flow to healthy flesh,
That might by your release 
Ramble back and return again.

The tireless dancer sends an echo,
Desperate, pressing,
Pulsing into the vice
So far from home....

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The Missing Limb
I was driving a long when I saw half an arm, from
elbow and down to hand, on the verge of the road. 
I stopped picked it up with my right hand and it
quickly grabbed my left wrist and wouldn´t let go. 
A man...

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Cleverly

Articulated as I type these words,
Cleverly thought up, diligently said.
Hence, this is where my story begins.

As words come, I should write,
No place to go, but what is right?
Thought up in verse,
You see, I know.

But about its sentences,
We will read, but how's it going?
The poem it...

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Haiku Poetry

PRIZE

staring roving eyes
kookaburra on a limb
wriggly worms the prize...

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