Short Personal Experience Poems

Dim empty tunnel
thundering sounds fill my head
Fast midnight tube approaching -
am I ready to jump ...
suicidal thoughts abounding

SECOND EDITION OF WAYRA Poetry Contest

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Written for contest - not from personal experience!

8/16/19...

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P-ersonal experience teaches, 
R-eminding one of past error; 
E-very wrong turns into success, 
C-orrecting the fault with ardor.
I-n search of particular progress, 
O-ne learns lesson with vigor; 
U-sing the practical difference, 
S-eeking cue from personal experience.

Topic: Birthday of Precious Jhoy Corre (April 25) 
Form: Acrostic Ottava Rima...

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Rats
I can hear the rats again, fighting in the ceiling
That’s not a metaphor, they’re really up there screaming. 

I’m laughing while I watch you cry,
You’re laughing while you watch me die. 

The sink is leaking and I can’t stop the dripping
The floor’s collapsing and I can’t stop the slipping

We’re laughing while it doesn’t dry
The rats are here, the end is nigh.

S. P. Keast....

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the concept of a "hi-ku moment" ,personal experience  provides the sole motive for recording an aesthetic moment of a timeless feeling of enlightened harmony as the poet's nature and the environment are  unified in impressionist brevity with short succinct syntax,sans superfluous words, avoidance of metaphor and similes ,where an emphasis on imagery over exposition becomes ..genius... using an economy of words ..to paint a multi-tiered painting, without "telling all"....

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