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Haikus and
'Poetry-In-Motion's
magnetic poetry and haiku contest submissions to poetry.com
for those of you who don't know, a haiku is a form
of Japanese poetry, consisting of three lines.
The first and third line must have five syllables, and the
second line must have seven. It's usually
nature-themed. Magnetic poetry is when you make a poem out of a jumble of
words that they
give you, you drag certain pieces around to form coherent poetry.
what's your favourite piece here?
write me or say it in the guestbook.
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STOP
shadows
of murder cannot promise peace
centuries of bitter revenge
weakened
savage power
people
time to extinguish the flame
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DISCOVERY
love o'ertook darkness
and he found colors
a soft laugh
rainwashed
rolling in sensuous delight
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haiku (picture given): BUTTERFLY
It flutters sweetly
Sampling all nectar before
Its fortnight is up.
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haiku (picture given):
LOVEBIRDS
Isn't it funny
Animals know how to love
Better than people.
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LISTEN
listen
shadows whispering
fighting
laughing
as disappearing souls crack
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DROWN
(unsubmitted)
l'onde
froide et torride
vient, tillant la vie hors du ramure
baigne le soleil
Note: I actually don't know French at ALL. Just
so happened that poetry.com was in a French mood. I
actually used the Babelfish to come up
with that one... it's supposed to be
'the wave/ cold and torrid/ comes, stripping life out
of the foliage/ bathes the sun'. And then
I lost
one of the little word pieces in the big mess. I
gave up, modified it into a haiku and sent that instead. It goes:
haiku: THE WAVE
the cold tidal wave
sweeps the earth in its embrace
and swallows the sun
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haiku (picture given):
PALM TREES
Leaves tickling the breeze
Swaying to unheard rhythm
Sweeping in calmness.
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JUST SAY SOMETHING SMART
desired you for 8 years
now
myfistsclenched
sweat
dripping
feeble indecipherable
attempts
er
er
it could have been.
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IN BED
your sleepy smile melts me
half-closed lime pools
sunlight plays on your porcelain skin
a soft sigh
we lie awake
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