Tag: thought
member name: poetrandy R.
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June 06, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
The US Constitution gives Americans free speech.
Does that imply that we can freely exercise the power of dissent?
Yes, in some cases it does -- in other cases, maybe not.
Try going to a presidential . . .
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June 08, 2008 06:01 PM EDT --
Senryu 1
those girls talk too much
when they gather together
excluding all boys
Senryu 2
time has come to stop
complaining . . .
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June 05, 2008 02:02 PM EDT --
Snow on the ground still
Will melt completely and disappear
Leaving the quail homeless.
Frost filled trees dropping
Their snowy loads for all to see
Their fallen . . .
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June 05, 2008 02:08 PM EDT --
Transition Haiku 1
a fallen tree is
unwelcome in the forrest
a harsh transition
Transition Haiku 2
season . . .
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June 06, 2008 02:42 AM EDT --
Creativity is the ability "think out of the box," to synthesize,
present, invent or otherwise introduce new thoughts, ideas,
twists,artwork, literature, poetry, etc.
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June 05, 2008 01:34 PM EDT --
out of the fog into the light
comes new knowledge
useful and beneficial
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June 06, 2008 03:00 AM EDT --
Greed, Corruption and Incompetence are what's doing in Iraq.
All Iraq's people and leaders are filled with greed.
The Iraq government is completely corrupt.
Incompetence, rampant throughout . . .
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July 13, 2008 10:35 AM EDT --
I once had an old book on Metaphysics
(written before quantum mechanics)
when read front to back it was impossible
to understand, yet if you read it from back
to front, everything . . .
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June 10, 2008 02:10 AM EDT --
Taken from: http://www.twodragonflies.com/about.html - THANKS!
What is Haiku?
Haiku – a form of Japanese poetry, the late 19th century revision by Masaoka . . .
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June 11, 2008 04:41 PM EDT --
Here's a few I gleamed from Ted Kooser and several other noted poets, as I understand them:
DO'S & DON'TS OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY
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June 12, 2008 03:32 PM EDT --
Summer Days Haiku
on warm summer days
it seems we are at peace
then the TV comes on
Vibrations Haiku
vibrations . . .
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June 12, 2008 05:01 PM EDT --
astrology, alchemy, atheism
none a true science
so many endeavors
directed away from
reality, truth and beauty
so much wasted time
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June 13, 2008 03:28 PM EDT --
summer's solstice starts
desires sexual, physical,
emotional attractions
pleasant longer days
shorter nights filled with
lust, desire, temptation
summertime . . .
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July 01, 2008 09:09 PM EDT --
for Donald Hawley - 7/1/2008
soothsayers, seers and saints
have a corner on the future,
perhaps scientists do not,
stuff happens, no longer a dream. . . .
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July 05, 2008 05:25 PM EDT --
love can give warmth
sorrow, devotion, worry,
a headache or great joy
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July 06, 2008 05:27 PM EDT --
is life, time, belief
certain karma or is it
all existential?
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June 05, 2008 01:47 AM EDT --
witch's strange poisoned brew
what a horrible black broth of evil
gruel with bubbles of hate, malevolence
our long terrible war
victims scream a tragic song . . .
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June 05, 2008 01:56 PM EDT --
When last sailing from Newport Harbor, I could not leave the bay,
without noticing the comings and goings of the off-shore birds.
As we left the channel mouth, then approached the risings . . .
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June 06, 2008 02:02 AM EDT --
Sliderules ( an old engineer's delight )
linear ones,
round some are,
short are some,
long be others,
watch-like are very few,
wood, steel, bamboo, . . .
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June 06, 2008 02:39 AM EDT --
Bob Frost needed rhymes, Carl Sandburg used very few.
Rhymes are okay, but, poetry comes in many different
forms and meter.
Walt Whitman was flexible, he used rhymes as needed . . .
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