Short Alternatively Poems

When is When When?
  --When When means When?
         That's when!

       ~Alternatively

When doesn't When mean When?
  --When When is when.
         That's when!...

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A farmer is a man who 'does'(!)
                                   ~ not go to the beach for a tan


Alternatively:

A farmer is a MAN
                ~ who doesn't hit the beach for a tan...

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Lustifully
Overreaching
Vainly
Eager


Sensually
Public
Rendering
Everything
Alternatively 
Disfigured
Sexual


Optimistically
Neurotic


Teenaged
Overdone
Always
Sexually
Tired...

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Sit around and do nothing all day
Alternatively watch the rugby played
Take the wife shopping and pay
Up to the chippy no cooking today
Ring the lads for a pint, wey hey
Drink, drink all your troubles away
Abuse the dart team in their game
Yep thats the way to spend a Saturday...

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You said you dodged a bullet. 
If I was the bullet, 
Then I shot myself. 
And barely grazed you. 
If I was the bullet
Then I killed myself. 
And left you with a scar. 
Alternatively,
If I am the bullet, 
Then I shot myself. 
And you got hurt trying 
To intercept pain that was not
Yours to take....

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Woodrow Wilson, back then a progressive
  Now considered a wholesale regressive ~
     Just think, Hilary / DJT *
     What will you soon be ~
  Deplorable compulsive-obsessive  



  *If Republican, read 'Hilary'
    If Democrat, read 'DJT'
    Alternatively, read 'JRB,' -- (Joseh Robinette Biden)...

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Furuike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto

- Basho



Literal Translation

Fu-ru (old) i-ke (pond) ya,
ka-wa-zu (frog) to-bi-ko-mu (jumping into)
mi-zu (water) no o-to (sound)

my two cents

old pond

leaping frog

splash!    (alternatively ripples*)

*perhaps better from an imagist viewpoint!...

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He whom comes' with sin
Alternatively and without reason'
Corrupts' the absent 
Person of his being, and
Neither does' his gratitude 
Gain prosperity, It can only
Sprout envy
And dissatisfaction of
That trail which stridulates'
Through-out the annul'
Of-
Man and his generational
Quest to become insolent
This is man's last basting

GF...

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Two sets of three words each
  Each sets forces in motion
Mighty as mountains, vast as the ocean

The first set, "I give up"
  All momentum it quells
The future, disrupts

The other, "I love you"
  Walks you out on a limb
Your destiny magical; alternatively, grim

Utter these three words with the utmost care
  Never with a wing; always with a prayer...

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Rodeheaver Name Meaning topographic name from Middle Low German roden, Middle High German roten ‘to clear’ + Middle High German hou ‘assart’, ‘area of forest assigned for clearing’. Alternatively, the second element may be an agent derivative of Middle High German houwen ‘to chop or cut down’, in which case the name is of occupational origin.

Interesting.

Jim Horn...

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Oh, meaty mothballs!
    as opposed to mothy meatballs
  Alternatively - slobbering sloth-balls!
    instead of sloppy moth-calls

  Stupid refrigerator!
    as opposed to dumb incinerator
  Alternatively - dirty toenail taster!
    instead of wanton whiskey-waster

  It's the start of a brand-new year
    Let's raise glasses and expectations
  And while we're at it
    ~ improve imprecations!...

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The most discussed Basho haiku How would you translate it?

Furuike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto

- Basho



Literal Translation

Fu-ru (old) i-ke (pond) ya,
ka-wa-zu (frog) to-bi-ko-mu (jumping into)
mi-zu (water) no o-to (sound)

my two cents

old pond

leaping frog

splash!    (alternatively ripples*)

*perhaps better from an imagist viewpoint!
Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2019...

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Please advertise your thoughts right here, 
Make me savor your every word, 
I sweat behaviors of a peer; 
Your slogan slashes like a sword. 

I bend for brands to kick my pocket, 
Over again shares go up and down. 
I will hit labels in the socket, 
But the other eyes just buy and frown. 

Why choose alternatively between two, 
When choice's paradox is in your face? 
The rows seem endless when you're going through,  
Head-turns, carts, retail sounds...uneven pace......

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