Farewell Planet Poems

Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku

Fukuda Chiyo-ni was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo.

Having seen the moon
I can bid...

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She’s not as dramatic as a hurricane or forest fire
Just someone’s old mother
Arranging her daily dignity
In an unrefrigerated apartment

She’s got a cushion chair
An oxygen tank
A...

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Heavy waves speeding.
Rushing to shore, they are one.
Forced back; the sea robs....

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Song Lyric Contest 

There Wasn't Any Summer That Year

(Intro)
Five dollars for the future
An hour tells you all
The Gypsy knows the answers
They're in her crystal ball

(Verse)
The...

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Will I be there on the rocket
when you fly back home?
Because we all know you're not one of us
and your people love to roam.

Will I...

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Our Comings And Goings


Signals concerning streams of tones in lights,
Quadrillion twenty to being precise,
Derivations a formidable chore,
Left for later, time for us to explore,

Of a...

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Hello my Pluto, so distant and small,
Some questioned if you were out there at all, so
Passing by planets of far greater size, I
Journied the distance...

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This is my love letter to our lovely planet oasis
Alas taken for granted and abused on a daily basis
Through the years she’s provided me with...

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Mach my words, that time travel aye
foresee (rather than being 
     at a stand still, nee frozen 
   ...

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“USELESS MACARONI”


the windows to our souls are dirty
our brains are nailed to the center
of a bulls-eye
stubborn like mules
the dandelion gets a haircut

time is useless with...

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if these walls could talk would I feel embarrassment from the stories they could tell?
within me if these windows could truly see would they close...

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For two magnificent years I have sailed  
Over the Inspiration’s divine sea
Enjoying the sights of many beauties
That poetry offered to you and me

2.
However the...

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Do you know
How much you are loved
Appreciated
Seen


Yes we see you
We're blessed to know you
The woman behind the joyous smile
The one who goes beyond the extra...

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Days, Months and Years all reach the end 
Time takes them away without suspend  
The rivers farewell the banks, head to the bay 
Our...

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(This is an evolving story. I keep adding verses until I'm done.)



When I was 
eighty-two, 
I went to live alone 
knowing the money would 
forever...

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