Current poems in progress...

Marbled antelopes
---Anonymous
are streaming across the veldt
---Anonymous
Nature's masterpiece
---BR, New Hampshire

A swarm of starlings
---Anonymous
Discussing democracy
---BR, New Hampshire
Feathered town meeting
---BR, New Hampshire

signal's very weak:
ill-informed identibirds
roost on antenna
.
--eritain

Red Kite rides the wind
---Anonymous
My spirit soars on its wings
---BR
So sweet, the freedom
---BR

Interesting times
---Anonymous
Spears turned into pruning hooks
---BR
Peace prevails at last
---BR

Written when I still hoped Obama would make the right choice!
...BR

Pirates of Penzance
---Anonymous
Steaming the intercity
---Anonymous
Kernow kriminals
---Anonymous

The fifth element
---Anonymous
Earth, Air, Fire, Water and
---Anonymous
The perfect being
---LeeLoo

hail loverboy
---Anonymous
I think I'll call you "stormy"
---carabelle
Magnificent Thorr
---carabelle

Stormy Thorr, he brings great thunder and other gifts.

Norman Tebbit said
---Anonymous
get on yer bike, layabouts
---Anonymous
meet me at the pitch
---eritain

Too right! vin

Hovis is no good
---Anonymous
had a dream package in mind
---Anonymous
Nimble balloon girl
---Anonymous

funny stuff !!!!!! c-belle

The Magna Carta
---Anonymous
Writ of Habeas corpus
---Anonymous
how i spell divorce
---c-belle

the wherewithal to
---Anonymous
add a line to this haiku
---Anonymous
was not forthcoming
---Anonymous

"So what?" he spluttered,
---Anonymous
rounding upon the heckler,
---Anonymous
"Don't like Mars? Don't come!"
---eritain

10000 rabbits
---Anonymous
my you're busy cottontails
---carabell
orgies hare and there
---BR

line three is so cute. carabelle
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I kind of got a smile out of writing it! Glad you liked it.
...BR
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On second thought, Carabelle, if you hadn't added a good second line, I couldn't have added the third line. It's fun working off each other's lines.
...BR
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Hmmm. Deja vu mon ami.
Your line is witty. carabelle

elephantine mice
---Anonymous
wouldn't touch with ten foot pole
---carabelle
Look, Ma, the big cheese
---Anonymous

carrickmacross lace
---blarney
dresden china on table
---Anonymous
victorian tea
---carabelle

Just so.

Only paper moon
---carabelle
sucker born every minute
---cara
Phineas Barnum
---carabelle

not all make-believe
to those who can see beyond
what's in the wallet
.
--eritain
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such wisdom! admire your style. c-belle
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Thank you for planting the seed. -e

James Butler Hickok
---c-belle
Deadwood's romany warning
---c-belle
robbed you of caution
---eritain

well you know it's in the cards that is
if you know how to read them.
why did wild bill sit with his back to the door?
like your third line.
c-belle
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Like your second. I guess there are two reactions to a premonition like that: "Oh, no! I'd better be careful," and "Screw it then." --eritain
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I like the way your mind works eritain.
tell me do you like US History?
c-belle
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Enough that I knew who Hickok was. Not so much that I'd have known what Deadwood was if I hadn't looked it up. Wherever I am, I like to know the local history, the history of everyday things. --eritain

you are here and warm
---c-belle
making waves across my time
---c-belle
can't stop lovin you
---c-belle

line 1. bob welch "sentimental lady" fleetwood mac
line 2. e.l.o. "strange magic"
line 3. john mayer "half of my heart"

Just like the wild west
---carabelle
I could use a sin killer
---c-belle
Steel in his holster
---vin

"Because the point of a gun was the only law that Liberty understood" (Bacharach and David, "The Man who Shot Liberty Valance," 1962).
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Oh i like that song. sometimes I am in need of a fast Law Man
but I really didn't have an eastern man of the law in mind.
I was thinking a little more buck skin.
c-belle

Flowerless plant life
---Anonymous
titanium cloud cover
---Anonymous
peeking through asphalt
---DRQ

vegetative state
could be caused by pollution
rebel without seed. Just being silly.
You're truly gifted. Enjoyed. c-belle

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I like how this ended under that sky. They are remarkable. vin

Thunder fills the chest
---vin
booming through the blooming woods
---anon
downpour fills dry creek
---anon

Now I understand
---c
drifting down Sorrow's River
---carabelle
greasepaint will dissolve
---carabelle

I told you good bye
---c-belle
now please get out of my head
---c-belle
Shrink! I dare you to
---c-belle