Bipolar

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Sins of omission
and commission.
All sinners for sure.

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Thanks Tony, the final verse was intended
to invoke the Martian sky as seen by Mr. Musk's colonisers.
Taking your observation on To a Poet...

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Bipolar


The cup of life,

drunk to the dregs then filled again

overflowing day to night

manic...

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MH thanks for your attention
You'll notice I called them slack rhymes
bane and come fall into the very slack variety,
but I still find...

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You are quick to respond
as usual Bob.
I borrowed your "Teeth"
to chew out Atoll.

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From voracious nymph water tied
to bodycast, reed dried,
split and left for mating flight's
brief glimpse of light
an iridescent...

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On a fair and level playing field
with the broken nose of pride
what scars of life's engagement
will she never seek to hide?

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At the Beach


Bucket and spade

The beach transformed

by tiny hands

going tired home
...

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These are even less well
played as Kyoka which (following MHenry's prompt to
Kujaku Ships & Poetry blog/website of Chesapeake Bay poet...

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These came out of my unsuccessful
attempts to understand Tanka


Places and Times

Beat poet jazz rhymes
from...

[Johntee]

"Whilst stalks the darkling verse as evening strains
The ink into its own decaying light." Sepia in every
stroke. A great crepuscular...

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China has their own pork bellies now, that's what the soy is for

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Brought to earth by
Autocorrect, that sly
insertor
while eyes are on the rhyme
of the well-tempered line

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2/3'rds I
1/3'rd you
but you just
won't go away,
a fear lodged
in memory...

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How many ways
to advertise
what is sought
in others eyes.

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Money's a good servant
and a hard master
stay out of debt
avoid disaster

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To meet his end
in disembodied ecstacy
Spiderman invites
the queen to tea

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Unlike "I am woman," the line was in my mind unattached
until I looked up its provenance.

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Thanks for the read amenOra
you've pulled it out of the slush pile for SG to see.

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FAO MHenry
Having read your reference prompt to "What is a Tanka" it seems to require 5 lines of not more than 31 syllables in the pattern...