Short Flasks Poems

May Day is "Lei Day" in Waikiki
But this year girls are looking sneaky
They're all wearing masks
And carrying flasks
But their swank is still rather cheeky...

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Flasks and drums
Vases and urns
Barrels for holding pickles

Bowls and cups
Pots and pans
Piggy banks for nickles

Beakers, pitchers
Bottles for milk
Mere vessels for the rookies!

For no container
In the world
Can beat my jar of cookies!...

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flasks are rounded
on our way
when you walk  out

month was kept
when you look fromthe window at night

behind a rustle bush
pursuit of the prey
You alone

Shadows wrapped
When the hearts threw
There was a festival
When lovers meet

Look now in the time's mirror...

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the weaver song birds
weave most elaborate homes
that
LOOK LIKE UPTURNED FLASKS


hummingbird's sweet trills
charms us because it ingests
in
NECTAR TWICE ITS WEIGHT

petite and plumpy
love birds are valentine's souls
but
DON'T EAT CHOCOLATES 

March 29, 2016
Mystic's Split Haikus...

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I find myself 
getting lost
within the concrete 
that is cold and cold 
resigned to white walls 
while the worth of my words 
are measured 
in glass flasks 
there is no soul here after all  
and I will soon grow 
used to the blank stares 
of mirrors 
the hardness 
of science

this time memories 
of sunshine 
will not save me at all 
from such a fate...

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What's in all those flasks and beakers
  Powerful brains for inspirational speakers

What's thawing out in that microwave
  Like-new used lungs, they're all the rave

Wutcha gonna put in this here petri dish
  Tell me what you want; I'll grant you your wish ~

Someone to love me like grandpa loved grandmother
  So sorry, but love's a secret science hasn't discovered...

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