Butterfly Hair Poems

I admire your peaceful ways 
The way you smile the way you pray
You admire my warrior spirit
I smile a while just to hear this

You are...

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midst winter's branches
a tiny green bud appears...
heralding springtime

sunshine will coax it
to become lovely flower...
to wear in spring's hair

February 17.2023
for "spring Flower, Bird or Butterfly, Haiku...

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I would fly down the cement sidewalk,                  ...

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I was named Paulette,                     ...

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Rubik's Cube, I am so square 
use me to have some fun
boys and girls of all ages love me
i will make you pull your hair...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Hisajo Sugita was an innovative and influential female Japanese haiku poet:

I remove my beautiful kimono:
its varied braids
surround and entwine my body
?Hisajo Sugita, loose translation by...

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Roses are not blue

The world as one is a grey blanket of nothing
The same language, the same culture (consumerism)
A haze foul of jollity and hollow...

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Roses are not blue

The world as one is a grey blanket of nothing
The same language, the same culture (consumerism)
A haze foul of jollity and hollow...

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Roses are not blue

The world as one is a grey blanket of nothing
The same language, the same culture (consumerism)
A haze foul of jollity and hollow...

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You Lie

No.
I tell you what you want to hear. 
Sometimes when I do not, 
mostly when I do not, 
always when I do not, 
you...

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Distance Squared

The speed of light
is exactly how fast
my heart sends;
every prayer, 
every good thought, 
every perfect wish! 

The bright candle between us, 
it is the...

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Just Strands of Straw

I look into the mirror, 
my hair has dropped to the sink. 
It is a trail of tears, 
years of taking care...

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Tripped Up

Things take us from what is important, easily. 
Distractions of life, responsibilities we deem high on the list. 
Missed promises, forgotten details, getting older...

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Spartan

Some men are born to play, 
and some… are not.
To them life is without common joy,
at least the kind others partake. 
But it is instead...

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