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Rules: Write a poem for national poetry month on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a separate reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month have written 30 poems for National Poetry Month.
NaPM April 4, 2021
Topic: write 4 haiku/Senryu/other short form poetry
Form: Haiku, Senryu, other short form
Line Requirement: any
Senryu has human
Element. Haiku none. Not
That it matters...wink
Morning song
Cut short
By magpie
Vesuvian brains
Smooth as glass
Frozen in time
Hit me baby
Say bye bye bye
Syncing spears
Peanut butter honey banana sandwiches
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Threads: 18
Joined: Jan 2021
Dogpark argument:
who didn’t pick up their poop?
This and cold rain too.
Outside, cold rain falls.
I join the rain for a smoke
and write this poem.
The interstate roars
behind a curtain of rain.
Birds sing rain’s end.
I love the sounds now:
train passing, birds singing and
last of rain falling.
"Take what you need and leave the rest"
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Threads: 56
Joined: Jan 2013
what's a girl to do
box of porn
magazines beam
mostly mountains
starry skies
earth's egg
woman wilted
flowers fitted
revenge restricted
this is fun
we're all having
fun, right?
I'll be there in a minute.
Posts: 160
Threads: 42
Joined: Jun 2015
sun beaming through trees
as our shadows stretch eastward-
tall grass waves good-bye
shadows enhancing
what a body’s language for-
waltzing with the moon
light beyond the stars
beyond the deepest darkness-
closer than our tears
Sunday, early Spring-
morning opens like a rose
welcoming the Sun
Posts: 713
Threads: 168
Joined: Nov 2015
Spotty Morning
Instant coffee ain’t.
Dark bug specks rise undissolved:
instant, yes, but not.
Progress
Thumb drives are so cool…
but no-one ever got a
virus from vinyl.
None for You!
Old-school dictators
rationed newsprint as our scolds
embargo bandwidth.
Wet-brush Morning
Tree-fringed horizon
bleeds upward into Easter-pale
robin’s-egg blue.
Non-practicing atheist
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Joined: Mar 2021
Easter Sunday
sun rising
east tower curtains closed
-
Birdsong
pigeon cooing
poop on window pane
-
Daffodils
petals unfurling
frost is forecast soon
-
Bunny-Boo
get-well gift
has a sinister smile
Posts: 169
Threads: 40
Joined: Dec 2017
Easter weekend.
Café closed.
Jobs stolen.
1) Tea
2) Hairy testicles
3) Fat, contented cows.
Australia - your listicle.
Hips grind trouser fronts.
Dates and dry bread
for the Egyptian.
Red nose wags
at forgotten jokes -
old fool.
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Threads: 230
Joined: Oct 2012
Life used to feel full
but now an empty bottle
just takes the edge off
Spliff singes car seat
old tree learns how to dissect
a young drivers chest
a brave new world
innocent beneath bracken,
elders steal their light
atop the steep fell
burnt sky's cool in shadow
between the colours
If your undies fer you've been smoking through em, don't peg em out
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Threads: 225
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gale beneath
the summer sun:
swiftlets race
car horns blare
from soupy smog:
frogs in a pond
the shadow of a narrow branch
leaps:
a nightjar's final flight
i find freedom
where the grass might slit
my bare arms
