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Morning Light

Tanka-Haiku Poetry Contest //Sponsored by: Oliver Mckeithan 
( 3rd Place )

Written: July 30, 2025


Sunbeam warms my face,
drags me faintly from my dreams--
the hush of morning
covers me in tranquil vow,
a new chance to start again.

Sun peeps through curtains,
gets under my dozy skin-
day begins with hope.

Cyclical

The pushing pelvis,
the slippery and new -
minus recall.
Amnesia drone
coming or going
home,
cyclic rebirth,
peddling hard to uncertainty.
Dozy or bright
dynamo light
self-made
doomed to fade
uphill and over
pushing through
toward an ill-defined 'it.'
A lifelong nap,
a newborn holler
into the latex catcher's mitt.
Headlong life buzz.
Squeezing through forgetfulness.
Born again into the holy whirlpool,
of - what to do next,
eat, crap, join something.
Leap or roll
through the big paper ring,
burst into the unknown
as the cheering dies.

Thirsty

THIRSTY

           My thirst oozing with champagne in goblet
            Melting into our mutual craving
           Following indigo line on sunset
          Misty dusty dusk, sky is engraving.
                               
          The tingling tremor, the lingering urge
           Watching dormant desires being drowsy
           Effervescence of love cascades to surge.
           Amour oscillates somnolent dozy.

           We float and sink in pearly passion
           Dear , come closer! My most precious gem!
           Memories of our love are in procession
           Our ethereal unison to claim.

           I am yours you are mine, fledged forever,
            In Earth or Heaven, joint endeavour.

Where's Icarus Now

This poem is based upon 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus' by Pieter Bruegel
Also inspired by Musée des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden~

No farmer or merchant felt the sound
That Icarus made when he had drowned
Icarus splashed and kicked and flailed!
Dying, crying to those who sailed
“Help me, help me! Direct your course!”
But those merchants felt no remorse

Icarus gave a final wish
To a man attempting to bait fish
Dozy, the fisher went to sleep
Then Icarus died, and none would weep

And a farmer who had heard his needs
Pretended he didn’t to plant his seeds

Since that painting it’s been years so long
Yet I find Bruegel was never wrong
No one ever feels the pain
Another Icarus has attained

So where is Icarus now?

We are an Icarus when out with blues
We read of Icarus in sickening news
We see an Icarus in city streets
Begging, craving for food to eat

And though the media bickers this,
The world just won’t stop for Icarus

A Day At the Fair

Sniffs of cotton candy glide
Glistening like hairy sugar bombs
Through barns of dozy prized cows
Stinky squeaky piggies squeal off-key
While whirligig Ferris Wheels grind and spin
In the hum of the Tilt-A-Whirl and giddy voices


May 14, 2023

Bitesize Contest No. 64 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by:  Line Gauthier

Bran Castle

A female gymnast in Romania
Sweet girl's name is Nadia
Went to a castle passed Brasov
A legendary castle, not of Romanov

Elegant and so cozy
To stay is nonchalant and dozy
Fictional character hailed once
People's world quivered more than once

Nadia kept coming back
In the said castle with a knack
Fell asleep one time waiting
In Bram Stoker's baiting

The night so dim in the scene
As a knight comes out with sheen
But the night crumbled with pangs
Nadia and the knight bitten with fangs

From the bed Nadia dropped on the floor, screaming
  ... a dream!

Celestial Stairs

It's a dull and rainy overcast day
A day to stay in and be cosy
Gaze out the window and dream of stuff
As you start to feel quite dozy

Time to write some clever rhymes
As you don your creative chapeau
Bout magical places and scary dragons
Or a scene with the sky all aglow

Maybe macabre like Edgar Allan Poe
Or happy like a Disney named Walter
Perhaps one 'bout the world's great wonders
Like the famous Rock of Gibraltar

Skies the limit let your mind run free
To a world beyond distant stars
To mythical places with exotic names
And customs strange and bizarre

Love them best, these days that inspire
Sweet visions of maidens fair
Days that expand your creative mind
As you climb those celestial stairs

Celestial Staircase

It's a dull and rainy overcast day
A day to stay in and be cosy
Gaze out the window and dream of stuff
As you start to feel quite dozy

Time to write some clever rhymes
As you don your creative chapeau
Bout magical places and scary dragons
Or a scene with the sky all aglow

Maybe macabre like Edgar Allan Poe
Or happy like a Disney named Walter
Perhaps one 'bout the world's great wonders
Like the famous Rock of Gibraltar

Skies the limit let your mind run free
To a world beyond distant stars
To mythical places with exotic names
And customs strange and bizarre

Love them best, these days that inspire
Sweet visions of maidens fair
Days that expand your creative mind
As you climb those celestial stairs

When Once I Was Ten

The place I lived when I was ten
I sometimes think of there and then,
And when I'm drowsing in my chair
My dozy thoughts go back to there.

I rest nearby a fireside glare
A glass in hand and here is where
I think of things I used to do
When I was merely eight and two.
 
But this was when my world was new,
And in the hours before I grew,
Outside the door and down the way,
For, this is where I used to play.
 
When all the words I used to say
Concerned such things as came that day.
I hear the songs I used to sing
And all the joy that they would bring.
 
No more I live where I was king
Yet still the memories from there ring.
I've been aside so long a time
Yet still the memories from there chime.
 
So, as I dream of days, sublime;
As recollections higher climb;
I sometimes, now, remember when...
And how I wish that I was ten.

Sitting In My Lawn Chair Tanning

Sitting in my lawn chair tanning
On my little patch of asphalt,
Many things I see occurring 
I normally just would not see.
Like spiders spinning dinner webs,
Butterfly on its way somewhere,
Loose leaves blowing around on lawns
And emmets running race car speeds.
I hear the rustle of tree leaves
In summer breezes in my trees,
The roar of municipal trucks
And heavy things get moved around.
Once in a while I’ll see a plane
High in my sky of blue up there,
Many people fling somewhere
And I will say a prayer for them.
Sitting in my lawn chair tanning,
Relaxing…I take it all in…
Deep in my dozy mind and fade
Into this summer afternoon.

W.C.Hull © 2020-I53-K53-21-L61-21

Early Morning Awakens

I sit in tranquility adorned about like a warm cape
            Drink in the serenity until my heart is completely full
         In nature’s beauty I feel the lush living landscape
     In such a rich world I can never resist it’s outside pull

     A dozy dawn arrives generous with trilling bird sound
         As the sun rises above to warm all the little chilly spaces
              And mist tangles mountains to keep them earthbound
                   Mellow tangerine glow wisps around clouds pink faces

                   The trees plump with raindrops, glisten with diamond stars
              Against the azure blue of morn my sleepy eyes waken
         From high sits my window to see the view like a bazaar
     Full of days first beginnings to be sipped not forsaken 


written 9-21-2019
San Pedro, Guatemala
copy right protected

Dreamland--

When I thought of dreamland
Sleeping
The dozy dreams-cape dazing
Deep into that darkness shuddering
Nightmares
I crave the trembling, thudding tingle
In my shrieking, I could not awaken
Chattering and chattering with my fairy tale
Am I in dreamland
Shall I dream now
Quietly
Yawning, rubbing my eyes
In my shrieking, I  awaken
As ghouls throw its ghost against the dreamscapes
Remembering many thudding, epic nocturnes
Is this a nightmare or is it cramps, pangs and pain from something I ate
I'm in dreamland my nightmares got me by the hand
Please, please somebody wake me for in my dreams I'm scared
Nightmares
Keeping me in fear in here DrEaMlAnD


8/2/19
written words by James Edward Lee Sr., 2019©

The Fog

fog
logs

widely
slowly

on the air
on the bier

touches cat feet
hugs ram soft fleece

the ship lively move
harbor greets as grove

whistle comes in dozy
fog smoke covers noisy

a cup of tea on port gate
barking in cold dog afraid

no snow but the sun feels winter
cubic fog send ray to vintner

paths produces a lot of paths to walk
but untouched all look like great in dark 

fog comes and rubs out my sight near and far
lose all to catch up in ghostly smoke bar



-January 21, 2019 Chattogram

Alice In Unreality Land

Alice in Unreality Land

Tweedle Dee was acting frivolously dumb,
Whilst Mock Turtle’s face sullen and glum.
Not unusually White Rabbit was late,
Alice grew large compressed in a gate.
Absent minded Dodo, helpful so polite,
Gryphon has wings but cannot take flight.
A Cat from Cheshire grinning ear to ear,
The Queen has a King, so kindly my dear.
Remover of Monsters our Lizard man Bill,
Caterpillar smokes Hookah with obstinate will.
March Hare so ridiculous, loudly insane,
Dozy Dormouse in Teapot doesn’t complain.
Unbirthday parties of a Hatter so mad,
Duchess is curious, neither good nor bad.
Lewis Carroll wrote a surreal world of confusion,
A curiosity tale filled of unreality and illusion.

Written 8.10.18

Celestial Stairs

It's a dull and rainy overcast day
A day to stay in and be cozy
Gaze out the window and dream of stuff
As you start to feel quite dozy

Time to write some clever rhymes
As you don your creative chapeau
Bout magical places and scary dragons
Or a scene with the sky all aglow

Maybe macabre like Edgar Allan Poe
Or happy like a Disney named Walter
Perhaps one 'bout the world's great wonders
Like the famous Rock of Gibraltar

Skies the limit let your mind run free
To a world beyond distant stars
To mythical places with exotic names
And customs strange and bizarre

Love them best, these days that inspire
Sweet visions of maidens fair
Days that expand your creative mind
As you climb those celestial stairs

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