For Sir Brian Strand's 1398 Poetry Contest
24 July 2025
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.-'o o`-. still on the lily,
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\_/ \_/ \_/ a frog listens to the dusk ~
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~ \__/ \__/ ~ ripples tell secrets.
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Categories:
pondside, animal, nature,
Form: Haiku
Heart’s Love Speech
My girl (archaic)
has my raincoat.
And I...
Well, I (adverb)...
have never been so -
Happy (pronoun)
to sit outside,
pondside,
in the rain (verb).
Just me and (subordinating conjunction) Basho (pronoun) (archaic).
Drenched,
smiling (preposition)...
I’ve all but - “Yauoooosh!” (interjection) jumped in.
Categories:
pondside, hyperbole, language, love, onomatopoeia,
Form: Free verse