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Free verse
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A creative process
disguised as a French Bulldog
has pooped in my mind-pot,
where I was complacently
growing small obscure weeds.
Muse me, or abuse me you poetry bug,
if you are a stinkbug, I will take it,
fake it until…
The Frenchie faux English Bulldog
licks a poetic banana smoothie
I have been working on like a dog.
The soft and gooey muse
shudders, goes insane
from a rare form of Gallic syphilis.
The dog poop,
is not processing well.
Fragments float in a soupy miasma:
said poop, a small annoying dog and
a smoothie.
But hey,
I think I can do something with that mix.
Poets know
that all kinds of ingredients
may be added to a mind-pot,
all we need do
is stir.
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Haiku
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wildflower meadow
as tall as a muntjac
cuckoo cuckooing
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farmers haymaking
grasshoppers stridulating
don't touch a stinkbug
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wood admiral glides
honeysuckle its host plant
humid the hot nights
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warm is the river
fish rising leaping for flies
life seeking cool shade
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inverted swimmers
water boatmen taking in air
cygnets follow pen
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as fall approaches
swifts are well on their way
second brood blackbirds
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hungry mosquitoes
human siestas a nap
insect repellent
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sunbathing insects
flowerflies hovering free
mowers thrashing lawns
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farmers cutting hay
a smell not forgotten
wildlife be afraid
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sunbathers warning
cream up or suffer sunburn
worse melanoma
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swifts immature
three years on the wing
unbelievable
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sand martins nesting
adorning soft sandy clifts
freshwater skimmers
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dragonflies masters
watch them fly backwards a thrill
kingfishers posing
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super hot weather
droughts not good for wildlife
reprieved... thunderstorms
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climate warming
both poles can't take the heat
humans all sweating
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a countryside walk
on a warm sunlit day
foxes sunbathing
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