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A thread to post poems
of five, seven, five meter
Have at it posters


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Lonely dragon sits,
ringed by cold steel artifice,
in our modern world.


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man from Nantucket
daughter Nan ran off with man
took dad's cash bucket


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You will regret that
You opened this can of worms.
I love bad haiku.


Just Five Syllables
Seven Syllables Follow
Five Syllables More


Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
“The Song of Hiawatha”
Through the Looking Glass


Mzyzptlk?
Bgztlr v. Bgzltr?
Kltpxyzm!


Unnecessary;
Overly-punctuated (!)
A ruined… haiku?


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Trigonometry


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This one is from Kashiwabara:

Tarai kara
tarai ni utsuru
chinpunkan

(From infant bathtub / To burial tub changing / Utter nonsense!)


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Daily miracles
assault our cynical eyes
striving to impress


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This one isn't mine
It's a poem written by
One of my children.


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Waving fields of green;
a million tiny banners
saluting the stars


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Today, haiku reads
backwards yet, and yet backwards
reads haiku today.


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Originally Posted by Kent Shakespeare
Today, haiku reads
backwards yet, and yet backwards
reads haiku today.


Okay, that's clever!

The wind just whispers,
as if afraid to reveal
where it's been today.


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Palidrome haiku
Quite a clever idea Kent
I salute you today


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The roaring, pounding
endless crash of endless seas,
echoing in time.


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echo beach is on
tune from far away in time
when music was good


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Hold your pen steady,
then let it flow forth freely,
capturing your dreams.


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note punctuation.
Vital in getting others,
to read all your dreams


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The gray tides sweep in
revealing treasures time-lost
and long-buried bones


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Fabulous and Sparkly!
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Legion World is great.
I should be here more often.
I will try to be.


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That would be quite nice
Now it's time for me to rise
Some coffee is wise

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voices from the past
revive forgotten word threads
beckoning the new


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Mixing old and new
The more the merrier here
Syllables are hard

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Woke up with brain fog
So I did today's Wordle
I didn't get it


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A E I O U
Vowels can be syllables
Nothing more to say


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