Pilgrimage
...I sit, this morn, on the bed of
A dried-up rivulet,
Head-bent and full of compunction.
It’s clam-quiet except for the impatient
Squawks above which prompt my heartbeat.
I raise my head, heavy wi...
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Categories:
weevils, culture, introspection,
Form: Free verse
America Lost Its Innocence
... 7/14/2025
Oh, how could this have ever happened here?
A free naton with baseball, movies and beer?
Those days when other nations cry against the USA…….DIE?...
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Categories:
weevils, america, betrayal, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Autumn 2
...Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about autumn, fall, falling, trees, leaves, leaving, goodbye, rice, moon, moonlight, words.
Reverential tears:
the falling leaves
bid their trees good...
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Categories:
weevils, autumn, butterfly, fire, goodbye,
Form: Haiku
The Great Witches Bake Off
...
The Great Witches Bake Off is here again
Bakes so weird some have no name.
So fierce it was to be the winner,
The prize is fame, on Lucifer's underworld twitter.
Laughing and cackling but alert...
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Categories:
weevils, food, magic,
Form: Rhyme
lesser weevils
...A rage results:
the orange dolt’s
been at the tweets.
Or truths they’re called -
I am appalled;
please bring receipts.
Then Harris talks -
word salad pox
from pre-typed sheets.
Oh, RFK...
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Categories:
weevils, political,
Form: Rhyme
sunflowers
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around my mailbox
a sunflower convention . . .
weevils unwelcome...
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Categories:
weevils, flower,
Form: Haiku
Evil
....Evil
A wormy apple bruised
bread crawling with weevils
Mottled black and blue
Essences of evil
Skull and crossbones warn
deadly poisonous gas
Tortured cries and moans
Creepy sutured mask
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Categories:
weevils, corruption, dark, evil, imagination,
Form: I do not know?
Sunday Funnies Iv
...super boll
boll weevil twin brothers: one was great, one the lesser of two weevils
you killed my father, prepare to die
three-legged dog in a saloon: "looking for the man...
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Categories:
weevils, humorous,
Form: Monoku
Raking Leaves
...The trees know very well
And so do the limbs.
Nature tells the limbs
To release the leaves because
Their provisions of shadows
And shades have now ended.
The wind picks up and scatters
The lea...
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Categories:
weevils, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Stroke of Bad Luck
...Not at all nice:
In one's hair lice
In one’s room mice
Weevils in one’s rice
In lieu of full cake, a slice
One’s highest post “vice”.
Permanent ear for advice.
A bad throw of Life’s Dice,
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Categories:
weevils, anxiety, destiny, humanity, people,
Form: Rhyme
Insects
...In my consign of living, nature in its fullness bends,
Creepers, climbers, insects and flies are, hence, in abundance;
House-flies relish our rooms, floors, beds, heads, faces, feet and food,
Ants...
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Categories:
weevils, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Meet a Poet
...MEET A POET TODAY
I know birds that weave shrubs into nest on trees ??
I know rodents that do same in crevices
I know apes that do their gymics on branches
Even the weevils that pulverise g...
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Categories:
weevils, adventure, inspiration, poems, poetry,
Form: ABC
Monoku Monday - Nov 2020
..."Election Edition" posted 1 Nov 2020
politicians: like diapers, need frequent changing (for the same reason)
debates are like steer horns a couple points with l...
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Categories:
weevils, political,
Form: Monoku
In Venom
...the covid-19 is perching
hither to thither
branch to branches
in the surviving breaths of human!
for the rescue
from the poor deaths
the human timid mind
worried to have vaccine
but yet t...
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Categories:
weevils, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Breaking In Birthday Mixer
...oiled cast iron black
preheating pan in oven —
weevils in cornmeal
10/13/2020...
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Categories:
weevils, angst,
Form: Haiku
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