a degree and he knows it all
summarizes me in a nanosecond
has me all figured out
simplified into a likely story
for someone else perhaps
but no sir, not for me
casually randomizing
careless comments tossed
into a common salad
the maestro takes words
and plays them back askew
creating his own new melody
with all his pomp and arrogance
he is the type that gives
the profession a bad name
AP: 2nd place 2026, 3rd place 2025, Honorable Mention 2025
no more is she dead…with ripples of her memories ye bring alive
04.02.2023
Poet’s note: A father feels distraught that his daughter left them soon after birth upon not finding him there to hold her in arms, an admiring father. Later, after years he finds one he thinks she’s his daughter. The girl too feels that way. This Monoku summarizes his heart-felt feelings.
walk by the burial ground
ubiquitous queues of lichen
awninged tombstones string out
engraving summarizes
bold subheading
who was adored by whom
I slide the dainty floret stipends
turn into gleams
scattered embers
riding the withdrawn wind
Written: September 27, 2022
The paper in essence
it's white and so
desires stay...
but life
cannot stay i
White...
life is similar to
justice: must
be provoked...
life in principle
summarizes:
white paper that needs
to be filled...
life is a book
that we write
every day...
The longer we live,
The most we fulfill
the role of life...
and she thanks for
live, for being
lived...!
bicycle shows ignorance of man
it summarizes man’s limited status
the most inefficient machine made
tires burst as often as possible
spokes break with no warning
frictions are all over the joints
chain breaks and breaks and breaks
very unstable two-wheeled machine
humans have fallen and broken limps
but man still uses the bicycle
as one of best machines invented
and walks with nose in the air!
MAVEN tastes the air
too thin to hold oceans' broth
wafted on Sol's winds.
Note: this is my entry for NASA's "Going To Mars" campaign. I believe it deserves to win, because in 17 syllables it not only summarizes MAVEN's (Mars Atmospheric Volatile EvolutioN) mission, but also alludes to the meaning of its name as an expert or connoisseur (as though it were a master chef, lifting the lid on the desert planet to sample its boiled away oceans). If you agree with me, please visit the link below (just copy and paste it into your browser) to vote your support, before July 29. You may make this offering one of three haiku to be carried to Mars -- THE FIRST POETRY TO ANOTHER WORLD.
http://lasp.colorado.edu/maven/goingtomars/entry/?13480
Thanks to you all.
Ravaging roundness renews romance when you are near.
Your raspberry shaded lips linger lovingly to be admired.
Firm and flavorful, flirtingly flaunting each New Year.
Succulent and sweet, sending Sapphic desires inspired.
Latitude of our lasting love litigates to our passion.
Summarizes sensuality securing the scent which fires,
Excitement and endearment, enriching eager fashion,
For favorable forever fervor, fuels favorite desires.
Raspberry aroma allures anticipation of one kiss from thee.
Luscious lips of my LuAnn, I await, another kiss for me.
*********Trois Par Huit*********
She calls me
And asks me if i'm free
She seeks my attention late that night
I reach her house, a Victorian. I knock light
She answers nude, looks at me, everything seems right.
Sitting down, with her atop my lap
Her sultry cries on tap
The Night Cap
.......:JP)
Trois Par Huit: (Three-by-eight or Octa-tri for short), a poem containing three stanzas of 3,3
and two lines OR 3,2 and 3 lines: 8 lines total with a syllable count of 3,6,9,12,12,9,6,3.
The rhyming pattern is AAB BBC CC where the last line is the title of the poem and
summarizes the meaning of the poem...
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