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 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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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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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 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 21, 2008 04:24 PM EDT --
Happens all the time, me wife talks to me,
while I'm iPoding!
What an interruption! What nerve!
Yes, what a grand insult!
Here I am in the middle . . .
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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 06, 2008 04:01 PM EDT --
That pooch and her stuffed toy puppy,
she confronts, attacks, tries to destroy it.
I suppose confronts is a bit of over simplification,
she does chew it, bite it, throw it, and jump on . . .
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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 30, 2008 01:47 AM EDT --
high cost for elimination
of weapons of mass destruction
out of control DOD reconstruction
almost lost Iraqi oil production
we'll never stop the insurgency . . .
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June 06, 2008 01:59 AM EDT --
Did Carl Sandburg ever sing?
He played guitar, he could dance,
he could hum, but, I really don't think he could sing
the wonderful songs and poems that he wrote!
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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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June 05, 2008 05:13 PM EDT --
Buzz, buzz going out on a nectar hunt,
what a life -- I can smell those blooms.
I must not lose my friend in front . . .
The queen is so nervous now --
is she ready to move? Oh, what . . .
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June 10, 2008 02:25 AM EDT --
Politics,
A plethora
of candidates.
Demos and neocons,
Who can win?
Millions and millions
of bucks, daily.
In our faces.
On television
or satellite . . .
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June 30, 2008 01:32 AM EDT --
population it explodes without end
its increase is a certain dead-end
plenty is the rule in this country
wealth and plenty are complimentary
poverty, rising food . . .
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