Snow Scene Haiku

Tree shadows splatter
across icy white snow sheets
searching for warm souls.

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and all the stars

you woke me up
in the night garden
and I blinked hard,
then smiled so big...

Woman

Shyed away from lazy sulfur streetlights;
away to dark with the other spiders,
where damp brick-corner waits,
grates to ease her back
and shadow seeks to comfort,
until

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For What We Strive

you are the words of this song
that slip off my tongue
and tell me what’s wrong
you showered your mind
on the world all around
you gave up on promises
and people who smiled and said
my heart’s not on fire
my heart’s not on fire anymore
and I haven’t cried in so long

Singing with Angels

Summer sails balloon
with anticipatory
journeys heavenward
riding white cloud seas.

Gliding inspired
lonely ride transcendental
endless blue rushing
to eternity.

Exhaling star songs
Wrapped in ink-stained galaxies.
Singing with angels
for an afternoon.

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Air India Haiku

Bollywood in-flight

Taka tak mini grit snack

London on the cheap

Suppressed

Music notes bounce from wall to ground
as hearts resound
tango heart beats
pounding stone streets

in syncopated misery
with needs to be
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Fear

We fear the dark,

the steps not ours,

the sound in the emptiness,

the sudden movement

in the nothingness of safety.

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the sound of motorbikes

I pretend you're still here...

Frosty The Snowman

Frosty the Snowman melted.
That’s him there on the floor.
I guess that I should get a mop
and sop him up before
he makes a bigger mess
than he already has.
See if there’s a bucket here.

Report card

In the solitude

of your concentration

you hunker down

over the schoolwork

that you fight

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Love in the Present Tense

I dozed; I woke from an uncomfortable slumber
to realize I can't remember the last time I felt loved.

[...]

I understand all too well
that love in the present tense
has nothing to do with romance.

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deeper than a fairytale well

it's a delicious place
that few people know about...

Paint

I am hanging up photos in my mind,
holding them high and paying respect
for all the tiny details that came together
to create these snapshots of a life.
They are pictures of the past and present
that now more than ever
explain who I am.
They do not define me anymore.
I define them.

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The Light Illusive

Illusive, it trickles through cracks in my gritted teeth,
warming, illuminating
parts of my being I meant to keep mine.
I reach to grab it, contain it, send it away
and it jiggles like jello.
Laughs.

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Insult

He stood at the graves
in silence, abhorrence,
while the wind whistled
in his ears
like an insult,
to those he'd lost.
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Shrine Haiku

Times like these we pray/

burn candles consecrate shrines/

Hail Mother Mary

The Order

i) The Killer
sprinted, silently.
Dressed in night, he outsmarted his prey;
     he turned and vaulted -
     took the fence.
Resistance ignored him, gravity too -
no order he couldn't obey.
     He fumbled for the shiny dagger-blade,      
felt no handle for retreat.

Blogsboro Poetry Club Member 41

Blogsboro Poetry Club just added its 41st member, Jack Caithness of Ground Words Jack is 15, lives in the UK and writes far beyond his years. He'll make a fine addition to our membership.

40 Year Haiku

Dawn light through thin fog/ misty morning optimist/ Martin's dreamscape, real!

A Dream Crashes Into The Ground

I used to fly-- though not too high--
to places not too far
and all I'd meet would smile at me
and wave from in their cars.
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Vote for October's Cleave of the Month

For those still in the voting mood: Please vote for Cleave of the Month October 2008 from our shortlist of 4 great cleave poems. Thank you ptdiep

The Sound

I wish I knew
what she loved me for
I’m broken and mean
and what she hasn’t seen
she was never looking for...

...I’ll lie by your side
but we don’t kiss at night
with the water to your left
and tomorrow to your right

And Farmer John Smiled

Gluttony splashed with dirty water,

everyday celebration

in corn fed jubilee,

pigs in a barnyard, sloppy smiles

mud-slicked playfulness

wrapped in harmony

with waste and wallow extraordinaire

flung from rusty pails

groping, gorging gleefully

stuffing, delirious, mesmerized

like fast-food zombies

in satiated ecstasy.

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