If sunlight was green
Shining on crimson nature
It would still be hot.

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November still day
Peaceful chimney smoke shimmer
Fox spoors on new snow

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If winter landscape
Had snow that was black as coal
It would still be cold

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Freedom is hard work
Hard work is too hard for some,
And let hard men rule.

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If rain was yellow
Running like horse piss in streets
It would still be wet.

senryu by Oskar Hansen
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Lack of erection
I read a verse about it
At an open mike
To deafening silence
And mortified interval

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Shadorma Poem

Shadorma

Tiny steps
Ornamental pool
A cool eye
Summer’s day
A long ominous silence
Endless tears.

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Melancholy (shadorma)

Homesickness
Twenty years away
I dare not
Travel there
A stranger on foreign shores
Who knows me now?

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Into my café
Came an out of breath gossip
Told me a story
Napkins turned crimson
But it left without paying

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Obscurant poems
Complicated word puzzles
Several meanings
Gives poetry a bad name
For those who like clarity

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