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Bittersweet Fridays
The early riser gets the danish and the wrath of sleepy dreamers. Copyright © 2013 Shainbird. All rights reserved.
Left in Doubt
Here I am wondering… What if? Why did I just leave things to doubt? Why did I just walk away? Leaving things on the half Unsaid Undone Unfelt Unknown To a tongue tied To limbs conformed To a heart murmured … Continue reading
Mankind Unfocused
thunderstorms throw us into a background unlit by an absent sun
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Background, Senryu, Storms, Sunless, Thunderstorms, Unfocused, Unlit
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Twiddling
Left with empty chairs, headlines, soaps, talk shows. Torment in the waiting room. Copyright © 2013 Shainbird. All rights reserved.
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Chairs, Haiku, News, Soap Operas, Talk Shows, Torment, Waiting Room
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Colors of Bananas
Green or yellow?, my dilemma, as I stood before the bananas. I hate shopping and my wife knows it. But I’m a nice guy and here I am. I don’t mean it’s woman’s work but I’m an abominable shopper and … Continue reading
Posted in Short Story
Tagged Bananas, Because We're Poets Prompt, Colors, Devil, Old Woman, Peace, Soul
15 Comments
Joules
Words on the page and kilometers on the road leave me ravenous. Copyright © 2013 Shainbird. All rights reserved.
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Burning Calories, Joules, Kilometers, Ravenous, Running, Words, writing
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Eulogy for a Memory
A memory is born in the shadow Of an instant’s death becoming Public domain once it hits Tomorrow. Quickly aged by a day If aged by a decade in its telling And retelling. Patent-free before All living eyes, preserved for … Continue reading
Relative Probability
crucial moments, I ask myself about me, two to one, we agree Copyright © 2013 Shainbird. All rights reserved. Relative probability is the “measure or estimate of the degree of confidence one may have in the occurrence of an event.” … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Agree, Crucial, Do The Right Thing, Me, Myself and I, Probability, Senryu, Statistics
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Father’s Decoration
Father’s decoration, In Mother’s arms You were unveiled Like a secret gift Absconded by angels In the infancy of the day On May twenty three, sweet, Caring, emotional, angry, skeptical Like a dandelion in early life whose fragile Seed head … Continue reading
Order Within
words and thoughts order my mind while my surroundings fall to entropy Copyright © 2013 Shainbird. All rights reserved.
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