Gossamer Dream Sigh - Hiku 39 -
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Written: August 17, 2025, for contest by Brian Strand
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Categories:
l p, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Haiku
Categories:
l p, water,
Form: Haiku
Silence in Bright Crowd - Haiku 20 -
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Written: June 14, 2025, for contest by Brian Strand
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Categories:
l p, analogy, dream,
Form: Haiku
Sculpted by silence
...My days were filled with limp lifts of your hands,
each a tear steeped in lost compassion.
You made me swim in a cold, clammy sea of sorrow~
and shaped me into a voiceless, motionless
s c u l p...
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Categories:
l p, addiction, betrayal, bullying, depression,
Form: Free verse
SO CIRO YOU FINALLY DICIDED TO KILL ME WHILE DYING
...I'M REALLY SORRY TO HEAR THAT WE HAD SO MANY LAUGHS ON EVER SUBJECT BOY THE FBI SCRATCHED THIER HEADS LISTENING TO US 7 YEARS RIGHT SOMETIMES I WISH I COULD ORDER THOSE TAPES FROM JUNE 1985 TO DECEM...
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Categories:
l p, allah,
Form: Naat
For Taunya L P-R
...For your Himalayan Singing Bowl retreat stood neat.
For you gifted five eager souls, sheer enjoyable flight -
For your expense paid treat gave me first time visit,
And I, on friendly shores of my ...
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Categories:
l p, adventure, appreciation, blessing, dedication,
Form: Narrative
Brain Drain
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I took a visit inside my brain today
To check what was happening
It has been a little sluggish of late
Like a cloudy day not a clear day in spring!
It was dim on entering
So l turned on my l...
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Categories:
l p, fun, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
I flipped the script: Does it make it better?
...,,someone messaged you",
said the classmate I asked my mom before to go to birthday to watch a film through.
The hall was much more tight in the brain I drew,
he was facing me with the phone in ...
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Categories:
l p, extended metaphor,
Form: McWhirtle
Sister brother mother dad
...This is a point of view of a family member whose mental health was ignored and his voices made him do these unthinkable atrocities to his own family. Real or fictional it can be both
The poem in f...
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Categories:
l p, abuse, anger, betrayal, crazy,
Form: Free verse
My Family's First Generational Curse Breaker
...MY FAMILY'S FIRST GENERATIONAL CURSE BREAKER
In a lineage burdened by shadows past,
There emerged a soul, destined to outlast.
The first generational curse breaker they became,
A beacon of hop...
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Categories:
l p, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
l p, 12th grade,
Form: Shape
Brain Drain
...I took a visit inside my brain today
To check what was happening
Its been a little sluggish of late
Like a cloudy day not a clear day in spring!
It was dim on entering
So l turned on my lamp ...
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Categories:
l p, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
H E L P
...When you hollow HELP to the LORD
In sincerity He hears your called
Before you fall to the soil
Riches or wealth accompanied with pride
Nor shall it bloom transplanted to that call.
Help, help yo...
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Categories:
l p, angel, bible, birth, christian,
Form: Rhyme
From the Tower
...(A New Zealand Poem)
In thought as I sit here, 747 flying by, in contrast to the isles of white clouds cruising eastwards across the Manukau sky yet another 747 passes by.
Tourists keep on coming...
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Categories:
l p, anger, angst,
Form: Haibun
Empty Chair
...Why does it
A N N O Y
me so
when i take the
T I M E
to read a poet’s words
C H E W
them up with delight
only to find
that they rudely (my opinion)
T U R N E D
off their comments
my brai...
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Categories:
l p, appreciation, silence, writing,
Form: Free verse
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