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Where Is Your Mind
Where Is Your Mind?

Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in the clouds of smoking cigarettes and cigars?
Is it way out there in the clouds of smoking marijuana?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out...

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Categories: fans, adventure, allegory, analogy, desire, growth, passion, perspective,
Form: Lyric



Haiku 1
The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
 
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
 
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Michael R. Burch
 
Late
fall;
all
the golden leaves turn black underfoot:
soot
-Michael R. Burch
 
Dry leaf...

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Categories: fans, family, heart, love, mother son, nature, seasons,
Form: Haiku
Limericks Vii - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd
Limericks VII - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd

There continue to be modern sequels of the famous "Nantucket" limericks, including this bawdy one of mine:

There was a lewd whore from Nantucket
who intended to pee in a bucket;
but...

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Categories: fans, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, sexy, smile,
Form: Limerick
Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations
The first soft snow: 
leaves of the awed jonquil 
bow low
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch

Come, investigate loneliness! 
a solitary leaf
clings to the Kiri tree
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch

The cheerful-chirping cricket
contends gray...

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Categories: fans, animal, butterfly, death, earth, life, nature, seasons,
Form: Haiku
Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations Ii
Dusk-gliding swallow, 
please spare my small friends
flitting among the flowers! 
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch

A bee emerging
from deep within the peony's hairy recesses
flies off, sated
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch

That dying cricket,...

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Categories: fans, autumn, death, life, seasons, spring, summer, winter,
Form: Haiku



Ancient Haiku
These are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku. 

While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O no Yasumaro (circa 711), translation...

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Categories: fans, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form: Haiku
Haiku Translations of the Oriental Masters
Grasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt
—Yamaguchi Seishi, translation by Michael R. Burch

Oh, fallen camellias,
if I were you,
I'd leap into the torrent!
—Takaha Shugyo, translation by Michael R. Burch

The first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow...

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Categories: fans, animal, beauty, imagery, nature, philosophy, world,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Bone Idol
[First posted in 3 parts. Intended novel: time never allowed]

Prologue
This,  Sir, is the prologue from before our tale begins
About the day our father did succumb to mortal sins
And left behind a man who would...

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Categories: fans, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
One Day
One day not so long ago 
I walked
Never alone
For the world 
Is always my home

It was a late
Spring snow
Yet I felt
Invisible red roses
Offering sweetest perfume
To my nose and soul

There’s such warmth 
In snow-filled winter
No bitterness
No...

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Categories: fans, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Legend
Look up in the sky ! It’s a bird ! It’s a plane.
It’s Superman !
More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. This fearless...

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Categories: fans, courage,
Form: Narrative
Saul Grills Marilyn At a Seedy New Orleans Jazz Dive
Saul’s twinkling eyes took it all in – the platinum hair framing a first-class face, the silvery sheath dress wrapped around a figure that was out of sight, but in plain view. She was definitely...

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Categories: fans, humor, murder, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Aloha
Hello? Are you there today?
Have I scared you away?
Spent my whole teenage life, 
Preparing for this day of strife 
To say my goodbye's
To your love-me-not lies
Oh well, oh well
I'm not saying farewell
Where do you dwell?
In...

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Categories: fans, deep, desire, emotions, encouraging, feelings, grief, growing
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Call
The Call

For as long as I can remember, I have been phoning my mom. Even before leaving home when I was a teenager. Whenever I had good or bad news, it was just natural for...

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Categories: fans, angst, blessing, courage, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Game of Hockey
The Game of Hockey 

By Government decree, lacrosse
Is Canada’s national sport,
But in the hearts and minds of Canadians,
Hockey rules supreme.
Hockey is a winter sport enjoyed by Canadians since 1875,
When the game was first played, on...

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Categories: fans, hockey, sports,
Form: Verse
My Compilation
Many of my favorite poems
How About This for Veterans Day

A monthly Monday morning military meeting
Would be great for them as way of greeting
Talking about things happening another day
Of past successes and prices they had to...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fans, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Many of My Favorite Poems
How About This for Veterans Day

A monthly Monday morning military meeting
Would be great for them as way of greeting
Talking about things happening another day
Of past successes and prices they had to pay.

Enlisted Term of Service...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fans, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Legend of the Red October Run
Dedicated to the 2000 National College Football Champions, the Oklahoma Sooners 

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Over fifty years, boy and man, I’ve been a Sooners fan
Watched and reveled in their glories, every one;
But there’s no more glorious “Sooner Magic”...

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Categories: fans, adventure, autumn, desire, football, games, heart, history,
Form: Rhyme
Like No Other
{intro}

Come back to me another day
We are walking on thin ice today 
You were never so cruel until this hour of shame
You were never so nasty until you hunted me down like game by calling...

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Categories: fans, anger, angst, break up, deep, depression, desire,
Form: Lyric
Michael Joseph Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural...

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Categories: fans, abuse, addiction, america, angel, anniversary, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Is Joss Whedon 'I Am' - Christ Reincarnate
Is Joss Whedon ‘I AM?’ (1) Christ Reincarnate?
                  I Think That That’s Doubtful!

More than Trump ‘IS’ (1) (by...

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Categories: fans, america, graduation, high school, humor, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Butt Out - Collaboration - Please Join In
I’m lunching with my bestie Mylie
She’s upset and no longer smiley
I ask her what’s wrong
She said in my thong
My bottom is no match for Kylie!

I giggled and said stop your moans
You're perfect not like Bridget...

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Categories: fans, body, clothes, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Mockingbird - Crown of Sonnets
#1
"It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
While playing games with rocks or guns, defray,
them, please, ...shoot old tin cans.  Each whispered song 
from Mockingbirds, can heal the wounds  of the day"

Virtues are...

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Categories: fans, children, discrimination, integrity, prejudice,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member The Sooner Recruit
Fifty years, boy and man, I’ve been a Sooners fan;
And watched thousands of recruits try to make my Sooners Team.
Often, I’ve enviously wondered what it must be like
To be a touted Sooners recruit, living out...

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Categories: fans, celebrity, character, childhood, courage, dedication, desire, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Fantastic Flemmings
As I look back upon a terrific, exciting, and storied career,
I revisit the trove of golden memories, which I hold so dear.

Although some were bad, they have been predominantly sweet;
But the most striking one, still...

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Categories: fans, adventure, career, family, fantasy, friendship love, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member In a tribal life where beauty and desire intertwine
In a tribal life where beauty and desire intertwine
like celestial bodies in an eternal dance,
those who shone with outward grace,
man or woman, found themselves in the waves of passion,
their nights a symphony of carnal delights,
their...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fans, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry