Long Monoku Poems

Here, I am...
Retired,
Happy,
Sitting on the relaxing throne of my age,
Reminiscing what I went through in life.
A mere spectator I have now become,
Observing in silence the works of men,
Having no worries
Of carrier advancement,
Of acceptance,
Of recognition...

My only...

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"Bits and Pieces III"      Posted 1 Aug 2021
Pun Ishment
	bread is like the sun      it rises in the yeast and it sets in the waist

English Class
	epitome...

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"Election Edition"  posted 1 Nov 2020
politicians:      like diapers, need frequent changing (for the same reason)

debates are like steer horns      a couple points with lots...

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"2020 Hindsight Collaboration"  Posted 4 Jan 2021

new year's resolutions      things that go in one year and out the other

I resolve to avoid all fatty and unhealthy...   ...

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"Well, I Never"    posted 3 May 2021

Six musings on the word never...

you should never marry a tennis player      love means nothing to them

my wife tells me I...

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"Holy Humor"    Posted 1 Mar 2021

if you need an ark to save two of each animal      i Noah guy

creating Eve was the first known example  ...

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"Debby Downer edition"     posted 5 Jul 2021

the chill pill you took this morning      appears to have been a placebo

misery loves company     ...

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"Reigning Cats and Dogs"   Posted 6 Dec 2020

the difference between dogs and cats is      dogs have owners, cats have staff 

who's supposed to read the signs that say...

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"Some Grave Humor for Monday Mourning"   Posted 5 Apr 2021
take note: if you don't go to your friend's funerals      they won't go to yours

some think our cemetery is...

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why does universe whisper that there is no final destination?

no matter how powerful, words a real universe cannot build

a blue-green world held in tight thrall by a star and surrounding system

we are made from the...

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what sin lies within seeking to learn the nature of our existence?

the wisdom of the ages is meaningless if humanity is gone

is afterlife more important than continuing humanity?

our very cosmos is filled with unidentified flying...

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If faith is rooted deep in one’s heart, there is no need for any proof of God’s existence! 








© Demetrios Trifiatis
         27 May 2016


*By mistake I deleted...

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6 years ago, I wrote limericks about 5 PS poets. Today, I've posted
about another 5 and will continue to add more...  before 6 years.

I tickled funny bones of five Souper men
So, I gave thought...

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"Give Me Your Tired"   posted 7 Jun 2021

i'd join the morning person's club     except their meetings start before noon

early to bed, early to rise     makes...

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Immortality wandering through joyful bliss
   Angels ambient of warriors winged
   Cherubs smiling upon clouds white
  Creation dreaming thru fields green
   Children laughing amidst meadows
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 Forever's flowering...

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Dedicated to all Soup poets and muse - please continue to help and thank you.

I didn’t know how to write poetry as I was new,
only 6 months in the poetry game so no shame,
many a...

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"Book Worms"   Posted 1 Feb 2021

i'm reading a book about anti-gravity      I can't put it down

that bio of Led Zeppelin's guitarist      is a...

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you like history here you go, a list of their history in short

740.    BC The Assyrians cursed them.

579.    BC The Babylonians fell asleep and remained for about 60 years.

70....

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“On the firm stage of my dreary life one thing is true,
        for there will never be another sister like you. 
      ...

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Arrogance
Wandered brood of Adam,
lost, bewildered people,
hear what I have to say.
 
Stop for a moment before the mountains
and for the simple sake of awe
be humbled, let your tears fall.
 
Look to, look through the air...

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These were my first five "Monday Monokus":

"Three Monokus walk into a bar"  posted 28 Sept 2020

don't challenge Death to a pillow fight         or you will face...

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In 2015…
           —In DMs, he wondered whether Trump “Is America’s Hitler”
 
In 2016…
—“Fellow Christians, everyone is watching us when we apologize for this man. 
...

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"Final Edition"     Posted 12 Sep 2021

With deep gratitude to all of who visited and commented over these 12 months of Monoku Mondays, I am hereby retiring this series. Keep laughing and...

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i danced in bubbling innocence,
but shrouded with tainted boundaries-
no more simplicity
without redemption;
my soul complicity,
my essence like dying memories

i strike a fever like waves of lightning,
the storm never ceases
even in autumn breezes
i find this affair of...

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