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formalist senryu
Mme Holiness
barks out her rules -
dogma's a pregnant dog

Started Feb 28th, 2011 at 10:17pm by Just_Daniel
2 10 Last Post Mar 3rd, 2011 at 12:05am
By: davidf
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50-billion air   (faux-ku)
50-billion air
Bernard made off
with peter'd portfolios
toupée apaul'd

© MLee Dickens’son 17 Dec 2008


Started Dec 17th, 2008 at 6:32pm by Just_Daniel
3 37 Last Post Jan 6th, 2009 at 4:55am
By: Merrimuse
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A Broken Family
The wall had crumbled
The light flickering in pain
Homeless angels cry

Started Aug 9th, 2009 at 3:01am by Jan
4 21 Last Post Aug 17th, 2009 at 8:22pm
By: Just_Daniel
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a dickens of a cinquain...
detail
of two setees:
once loud in the Bastille
can now not see so far a head
to speak

© MLee Dickens'son 29 April 2008

Started Apr 29th, 2008 at 3:39pm by Just_Daniel
2 24 Last Post May 2nd, 2008 at 8:17pm
By: Lucy
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a familiar refrayin'  [huitain]
a familiar refrayin'
I'm losing myself in writing again
though my scribbling so far is but drivel.
It's easier now with somewhat less pain
while I'm trying to make my fat shrivel.<...

Started Apr 11th, 2012 at 4:21pm by Just_Daniel
2 39 Last Post May 10th, 2012 at 1:00am
By: Terry
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A Little Sunshine
Keep a little sunshine in your life
and don't forget to pray
give the Lord your utmost thanks
that He gave you today.
~Davidf

Started Jul 6th, 2009 at 12:56am by davidf
8 62 Last Post Aug 9th, 2009 at 3:19am
By: davidf
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A Perfect World
Lord, grant me a perfect world
Where the sun will always shine
I'm sure that you can do it, Lord
If you can turn water into wine.
~Davidf

Started Sep 25th, 2011 at 2:08pm by davidf
4 22 Last Post Oct 4th, 2011 at 1:56am
By: davidf
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a rose
a rose
velvet petals 
each one softly floating 
in a slightly warm summer breeze;
they dance with untouchable melody...
what silent beauty when I watched
their dance.....

another attempt at rictameter 
slightly revised, see daniel's suggestions...

Started Feb 12th, 2007 at 2:52pm by percephanie (Ex Member)
6 47 Last Post Jan 1st, 1970 at 12:00am
By: percephanie - Ex Member
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A Silly Poem
Bees buzz around
Butterflies flutter
If honeybees make honey
Do butterflies make butter?  Cheesy
~Davidf

Started Feb 28th, 2009 at 4:28am by davidf
5 62 Last Post Jun 3rd, 2009 at 1:46am
By: davidf
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A tick stuck tween teeth 1. (REVISION 05/15/07)
Trees thick as boulders 
wrap around my hiding place.
Rapids interject.
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(Original)
Trees thick as boulders
wrap around my hiding...

Started Apr 28th, 2007 at 5:45am by dwgpoet (Ex Member)
2 11 Last Post Jan 1st, 1970 at 12:00am
By: dwgpoet - Ex Member
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A Touch
A Touch
Look closely while you have the will,
lay eyes on me as I am still,
stare long, when I am there so deep,
clothed in dreams and sound asleep.
No man may keep me i...

Started Oct 3rd, 2008 at 9:03pm by Lin
10 33 Last Post Oct 8th, 2008 at 3:07am
By: Lin
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A WRITER WRITES
I seem to have writing on the front burner lately.
A WRITER WRITES
A writer writes and hopes 
that somewhere, sometime, 
a reader reads.
For only with those other eyes,
c...

Started Jan 18th, 2009 at 7:51am by writer
4 51 Last Post Jan 19th, 2009 at 8:48pm
By: writer
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ABC Poem (Procrastination)
Life
mortal life
never stopping for a moment
on its relentless move forward
punishes those who procrastinate.

Started Oct 18th, 2011 at 3:48pm by sunilmathur
9 43 Last Post Mar 25th, 2012 at 11:59am
By: WildCityWoman
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AFC senryu...
Brady Bunch
beaches San Diego
Phoenix flight
© MLee Dickens'son 20 Jan 2008

Started Mar 21st, 2008 at 8:57pm by Just_Daniel (Ex Member)
3 29 Last Post Jan 1st, 1970 at 12:00am
By: Terry - Ex Member
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Affair
forbidden passion
impossible gain 
hidden secrets 
inevitable pain
The syllables aren't the same and secrets are hidden so     ???

Started Feb 11th, 2007 at 3:15pm by percephanie (Ex Member)
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22 113 Last Post Jan 1st, 1970 at 12:00am
By: Just_Daniel - Ex Member
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Alcor - Mizar    -- A Rictameter
Alcor - Mizar
My love,
When you’d left me,
I'd always reach and grab
a slice of moon and hold it close.
For all those years, I’d roll the stars like dice,
and p...

Started Mar 9th, 2007 at 4:04am by Normpo
5 53 Last Post Jan 1st, 1970 at 12:00am
By: Just_Daniel - Ex Member
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All-American 'ku
it isn't the same
storeboght brands just don't compare
to Mom's apple pie
~Davidf
(I'm sure this could be shortened -- but I'll leave that you'all).

Started Apr 19th, 2009 at 2:37am by davidf
1 22 Last Post Apr 19th, 2009 at 3:38pm
By: writer
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Almost Spiritual
Recipient of a gardeners soft touch,
a garden grows with love...
to be seen, to provide, to enjoy;
itself, is the tenderest tender.

Started Mar 12th, 2010 at 9:14pm by Terry
4 75 Last Post May 18th, 2010 at 12:44am
By: Amrot
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AMERICA...Still Free
AMERICA...Still Free
The essence of her aroma...causes me to breathe in
uncontrolled gasps reaching out to her so..
she will know that i am part of her
spewed from her womb as a...

Started Feb 8th, 2009 at 2:40pm by Wordmaster77
2 31 Last Post Mar 28th, 2009 at 11:30pm
By: davidf
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An Acrostic for David
Moved this one to SONNETS thread ...

Started Mar 25th, 2012 at 12:05pm by WildCityWoman
5 49 Last Post Apr 11th, 2012 at 1:05pm
By: Just_Daniel
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an autumn haiku
A cool autumn breeze
brings a tingle to my skin --
thank you for the kiss

Started Sep 23rd, 2009 at 3:16am by randy
11 41 Last Post Sep 25th, 2009 at 7:25pm
By: randy
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Another Cinquain - Moving Forward?
 
I found this amongst my archives and thought to share.  This was before I married again as my last name is now Reinhart.  Was feeling philosophical one night and penned the following:
...

Thanks for reading,
Dolly  Smiley

Started Dec 4th, 2008 at 8:37am by Merrimuse
3 24 Last Post Dec 15th, 2008 at 2:39pm
By: Just_Daniel
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Another Tetractys - Daniel says FOM - Yea!
The Original
Thoughts
like rain
keep coming
if you want them
or whether you don't ... can't stop rain, either.
( I live in the rainy, rainy Willamete Valley of Oregon, USA)    Wink

Thanks for stopping by...

Started Dec 4th, 2008 at 8:46am by Merrimuse
5 17 Last Post Dec 15th, 2008 at 2:41pm
By: Just_Daniel
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At the dock
I tried fishing for a poem
But the muse just wasn't biting
It's all right, I'll just tell the tale
Of the epic that got away.
~Davidf

Started Dec 17th, 2009 at 4:52am by davidf
3 34 Last Post Apr 15th, 2010 at 6:51pm
By: Constance
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