Short Hyphenated Poems

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Premium Member Clerihew Taylor

Samuel Taylor-coleridge
via Amerindians found a spiritual bridge
He hyphenated thus his name 
&  cantata brought choral fame
Form: Clerihew


Premium Member Trixie My Insistent Muse

Trixie is insisting on a hyphenated name.
Okay, I say. Let me get a pencil. She insists on a pen.
That one is blue ink, she says. I want you to use black.
The most demanding muse ever.
I do what I can to comply, so she will stop with the demands.
Where is my car? She asks.

Dried Ink

There's consolation in knowing
the rise and fall of angles;
the whorled tempests of
alpha and omega.

Liquid vowels
and hiccuping consonants
curiously curled around
the pith of visions.

Silent expressions
circumcised by dots,
paused by chubby tadpoles
that pollinate fertile thoughts
with deliberate moments.

Hyphenated hybrids
capture imagination
in new-sprung, cursive concepts.

But Oh! How I love
the silent ellipses,
the endless music of

The End...

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