Housefly

Now that this housefly
has finished wringing its hands
over the past - what?

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Four thousand years of Hebrew
and still no word for 'tact'.
So who needs it?

haiku by Michael Shepherd
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Noh poet

The cuckoo's sad song
says it cannot write high coos -
always six syllables!

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Peak district

Summer sunset lights
a mountain eagle; circles,
shares blue sky with stars.

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Mortal thoughts in advancing age

I wouldn't recommend
adolescence

or old age
as permanent states

to linger in

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Factions
lead to

fictions
which lead to

frictions
which lead to

afflictions

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0239 The Poem Said

The poem said

read me

then put aside the poem

and meet me between the words

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Playing leapfrog with Isso

The huge toad and I,
staring at one another -
who will think first, and what?

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A quiet word to poetry teachers

The poet means
what the poet said;
look for the 'meaning'
and the poem's dead.

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An exploration of the subtleties of the English language in second childhood

If I don't
go and
go
when I need to
go

I still
go
anyway

without
going there

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