| Open Notebook Resting on a Porch Rail
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2025-04-17
A friend informs me that today is National Haiku Poetry Day...
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| To a Robin
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2022-10-14
Thanks to arquious for alerting me to the "robinny" look of my vest!
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| Kabul
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2021-08-25
Masterful haiku!
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| ImyIwy
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2021-08-15
What a little gem--a sparkling dew drop!
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| ME MATE COUNTED ME BOOKS
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2021-08-13
Books still count--but for reading, not counting!
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| ten memorable moments, reviewed
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2021-08-13
Talk about saving the best for last, eh?
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| Kejab
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2021-08-13
Yes. Do it!
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| THE LINCOLN BRIGADE (Work Completed)
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2020-11-12
Let's hope so!
Thanks for an optimistic write!
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| Christmas 2020
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2020-11-12
Very clever!
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| Happy 16th wedding anniversery to myself and TomWood by Ann Wood
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2020-11-12
Such elegant sadness!
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| Remembrance Day, 2020
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2020-11-12
Somber, with words well played.
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| 'TRUMPATON' TRUMP YOUR TIME IS UP (Work Completed)
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2020-11-10
The fourth stanza provides a strikingly original, vivid, and memorable image!
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| Poe is Lost
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2020-10-31
Great read, for one who gets hopelessly lost, and very quickly, in a corn maze. I can't force line 25 into the tetrameter; but what the heck. I enjoyed this!
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| Heart
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2020-10-30
What a fine meditation! Line 30 i find especially memorable. I often wonder how much poetry, like comedy, is a desperate defense against depression.
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| commander in chief (haikus)
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2020-10-30
Very successful attempts! Seasonal politically as well as calendrically.
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| Happy Halloween everyone by Ann Wood
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2020-10-30
Halloween as an element of world culture?! An interesting and slightly spooky thought...
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| THATS THE RUB
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2020-10-30
It would be consoling to believe there is a Grand Scheme in which the world's current fascist mood has its place.
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| A Near Fatal Disaster
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2020-10-19
Gets to the essence of "catness"!
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| THE NEW ORDER IS DISORDER
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2020-10-19
An order devoted to disorder: this nicely captures our plight...
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| leaves
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2020-10-19
Let us all remain children--in some ways at least, certainly including autumnal joy in leaves!
Fine write, Peter!
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| LIVEING ON THE ISLE OF THANET KENT U K
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2019-06-21
This brings the geography to life! I especially like the chocolate similes. Well done!
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| to be determined
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2019-06-21
And now, day by day, we shall have less of day...
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| TWO BABYS BORN THIS DAY! (Addians)(Exstra Line)
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2019-05-06
Quite a study in contrasts!
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| Bye
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2019-05-06
Clever conclusion!
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| NEVER A DAY WITHOUT WIT! (A Work Completed)
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2019-05-01
Well may we poets sing the praises of wit! If not we, then who?!
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| Miriam l... The Chosen
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2019-04-19
Fine write, breathing new life into an old story!
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| UNFORGETTABLE! (ADDITIONAL STANZERS)
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2019-04-15
Much food for thought in this one!
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| Words said Out Loud
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2019-04-14
I read a remarkably clever ambiguity: which couple does the of latter half of this "sonnet" describe? Wonderful!
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| Bee lines
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2019-02-13
Clone becomes drone, serving his queen: nicely wrought, Chris!
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| Whitney #2
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2018-11-27
Sun/moon, heart/soul: well played, and oh so romantic.
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| Singing stillness
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2018-11-27
"Boundless is the core": a brilliant close!
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| No Day Without You
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2018-11-27
A pleasant surprise ending: I should have guessed it!
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| DEPRESSION - AND THE POET!
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2018-11-27
All emotions are grist for the mill of poetry: good one!
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| Royal Free 2014
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2018-11-27
Ups and downs: c'est la vie. Resignation, SO well expressed!
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| The Failure of Angels
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2018-11-23
Music as our salvation: A most attractive fantasy, this!
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| Still
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2018-11-23
Hauntingly romantic. If only others would feel as we want them too! Or maybe not...
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| Ancient Music
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2018-11-23
Always a good laugh! Thanks!
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| THE KIDS OF FLORIDA!
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2018-02-22
I like the "beat" of this march--and of this poem!
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| THEM! (A Responce Work) - ((Now With Adishannal Lines))
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2018-01-29
A timely, much-needed scream! (I can't help but think of the 1950's sci-fi classic "Them!" about giant spiders.)
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| Walking the Dog
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2018-01-04
For me at least, the astronomical details bring this to life.
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| The Kiss of Torment
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2017-12-28
A sad but timely warning!
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| POETS AND POETRY!
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2017-12-28
So the only way to go wrong writing a poem is not to write it, for fear of what others will think?! Intriguing!
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| The First Time
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2017-12-28
Nobody but you could make it a pleasure to read about pounding a nail into one's finger bone!
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| Done, and Cannot be Undone
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2017-12-10
"Recommends"?! Intriguing little poem.
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| Elements
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2017-12-10
Nice to see a formal verse; well done!
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| JUST - WHY ONE DAY A YEAR?
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2017-12-06
Indeed!
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| HOW FAR BACK ARE WE GOING TOO?!
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2017-11-15
Our so-called president assures us that smart people pay no taxes. We pay only because we are stupid. What a sterling example! What a true patriot!
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| our nature
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2017-11-11
By night, the splendors of love; by day, nothing clouds and crickets: I hate when that happens! And both happening to linger on the same chilly beach seemed so promising!
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| Chapter 17
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2017-11-08
A most interesting perspective on perspective. The suggestion seems to be that at least for this woman, the self-critical faculty is winning out over vanity?
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| Where am I?
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2017-11-06
I like the brevity and careful word choice, especially the spare, off-balanced rhymes. Actually, the subtle, back-stepping rhyme scheme is blowing my mind the more I study it. BRAVO!
Being lost is much more pleasant in poetry than in reality.
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