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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: retire, family, heart, love, mother son, nature, seasons,
Form: Haiku



The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...

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Categories: retire, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Remember When
Remember when you were very young,                             ...

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Categories: retire, fun, games, life, love, remember, today, youth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Teachable Momentum
Today
we left off yesterday
to pick up
where speaking non-violent principles 
too often neglect to listen
to liberally artistic,
green and active
yet non-reactive
compassionate healers
may need to co-invest more
in co-operating democratic research
of
and for
WholeEarth DiaLogical Matriotism.

Excuse me,
but co-passioned listening
to silence
speaks not...

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Categories: retire, caregiving, green, health, light, nature, passion, spiritual,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Retire V Retread
What I have for you today is not so much about re-treading an outdated fuel-based system--
little bit like reshuffling the chairs to fix the decay 
of a segregating Country Club.

No, this is addressed to economic...

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Categories: retire, earth, giving, nature, philosophy, poverty, religion, science,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Brace For Impact
We were off,                                ...

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Categories: retire, car, kid, red, snow, vacation, weather, winter,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Canto Xx Hell Translation
Of new pains new verses must be composed 
To give matter for the canto twenty
Of the canticle first, treating sunk posed.

I just was inclined with desires many
To thoroughly look at the open deep,
Which was moisten...

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Categories: retire, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 109-End
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A babe born, in darkness braved
Bring love to the world if only for a day
No questions asked, nor answered, nor saved
Let peace abide in every child, we pray
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

As they stood watching their son, enthralled in...

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Categories: retire, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Fairy
Come look come see,                               ...

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Categories: retire, crazy, dream, humor, sister, tree,
Form: Free 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: retire, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Twisting Tale of An Avian Apparition
"The discrepancies are many, the dalliances are few,
both pitched against one dynamic, lifelong achievement"

Poking through the woods of the Mill Grove Audubon Estate,
suddenly came upon an ivy-covered studio shed
tucked away amongst foliage near Perkiomen Creek,
apparently...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retire, america, appreciation, art, bird, books, dream, history,
Form: Blank verse
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: retire, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member What's Love Got To Do With It
I started out life as Anna Mae Bullock,                           ...

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Categories: retire, child, cry, hurt, music, song, woman, world,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member A Party In the Snow
2020 has been a year of blue,                            ...

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Categories: retire, blue, christmas, cry, fun, new years day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Light
Quote By Poet: "Some pets are people in fur coats"

 
I had a calling,                     ...

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Categories: retire, child, dad, dog, love, sleep, true love,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Twelve Months
Spring is here,                                ...

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Categories: retire, autumn, bird, new year, snow, spring, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Christmas In Heaven
This year,                                 ...

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Categories: retire, angel, beauty, flower, friend, pain, song, yellow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Three Colored Pigs
Once upon a ZeroTime
we suffered great terror and loss.

People,
animals,
and plants
refused to speak kindly with each other
because of a Big Bad Wolf
named Ms. Climatic Change 
by her delightfully demented transparents.

Most all credible scientists in that day
were...

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Categories: retire, dream, earth, health, humanity, humor, integrity, passion,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Me and My Bike
My bike and I go everywhere,                             ...

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Categories: retire, crazy, friend, fun, summer, sweet, uplifting,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Nuckleberry
There are times in life when we deal with strife
    And are helpless to the powers that be.
Where we are sequestered by doubt... and still tossed about
    By others...

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Categories: retire, adventure, humor, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Multiple Choice the Beach
Choices and decisions,                                ...

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Categories: retire, fun, ocean, smile, sun, youth,
Form: List
Premium Member One Life
There have been those who said,                             ...

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Categories: retire, food, green, home, jobs, money, people, words,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Two Out of This World Friends
The yellow and blue ground,                              ...

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Categories: retire, blue, fantasy, friend, kiss, sick, sweet, yellow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member New Neighbors
I am just finishing my morning meditation when I hear my doorbell ring. It actually sounds more like that buzzing sound you hear if you fry a fat fly on one of those electronic bug...

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Categories: retire, depression, family, funny love, humor, husband, lonely,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Divine Intervention
Some believe in divine intervention,                              ...

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Categories: retire, hurt, miracle, prayer, travel, words,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Shattered Sighs