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by Steve Plonk » Sat Jan 01, 2011 6:31 pm

"Caw-Caw Penny Haiku #1"
By Steve Plonk

I don't know why
Things go awry
When we mind
Our own beeswax & all--
But pesky crows keep coming
Around our parked car,
Leaving their "cawing" cards...
Eating most suet in front & side yards...

(Also posted on my topical poems: "Some Penny Haiku, Outside the Stall" p. 2, in the Poetry forum, slightly different title).


"Caw-Caw Penny Haiku #2"
By Steve Plonk

(a)
Three pairs of crows
Roosting in the trees
Waiting on the breeze
Rustling their feathers
Three pairs of crows
Waiting out the freeze
For a change in weather...

(b)
Six old crows
On a thick tree branch pose
Like they're on a tether
Six old crows
Watch flurry snow
Bunching close together...


"Caw-Caw Penny Haiku #3"
By Steve Plonk

(a)
Three old crows
Pecking in the snow
For crusts of bread
Three old crows
Flew down below
One's bobbing its head...

(b)
One of the crows
Does a little dance
Acting like a jester
Two other crows
Squabble at each other
Like a brother & sister...Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Tue Jan 04, 2011 4:40 pm

“Winter Cats Penny Haiku”

By Steve Plonk

(1)
We three cats from Tennessee are,
Riding in crates in the family car,
As down goes the sun,
Up come the moon,
Back from the vets we come...

(2)
At the top of the stairs
We’re out of our crates,
We scamper out &
Don’t hesitate—
In the kitchen,
With a mew, mew, meow,
We sing out for our chow...

(3)
Our “feline ID” & “Pro-Pac” is served,
Each of us eats our chow with verve,
Smacking, crunching,
Licking & munching,
Our bowl we clear(s)
Every bit that appears...

(4)
We three cats, from Tennessee,
Treating each other with charity—
Sounding out our purrs with clarity—
Three cats tonight
Are free from spats,
Snoozing on our faux
Leopard skin mats...Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by dadio » Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:38 am

This how it ought to be done and is and thank you for it.
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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Sat Jan 08, 2011 10:32 am

Dadio, Appreciate your praise.Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:53 pm

"Silver Lining Penny Haiku"
By Steve Plonk

Cloud over the moon
Means my misery has come
Misery will be over--
It shall pass--
Silver lined transparent
Front cloud will come
Misery turns over with the
Weather as destiny
Keeps beckoning
When the silver lined
Crystal front passes.

Circa Feb. 1968, Revised Feb. 2011.


"Limbo Penny Haiku"

Everywhere, in the dream, I go,
I see children bow their heads
They pray to a G-d they cannot see or hear,
They feel the wind blow the leaves free
Hope that they will be drifting in eternity/
***
Branches of the ground hold up our feet--
Grow our winter wheat--
All the darkness will come down
In darkness, only starlight is found,
We're groping our wretched path
Through the frozen snow,
Awaiting the sunlight of heaven's Spring...

Circa Feb. 1968, Revised 2011.


"George Washington's Cherry Day"

Edited by Steve Plonk

"Today is Washington's Cherry Day,
Prithee, good sir, a kiss.
I flaireith my dress for none,
Who war'th his life to merry-make,
When, for me, good sir,
Could make a son...
I'll give thee my cherry,
If thee put down thy gun"

By an anonymous lady, from WITCH,
Circa, Feb. 1968...Leaflets handed out
with paper mache cherries,
during peace demonstration,
outside the NYC United Services Organization.
Copyrighted by the editor in 1986. Part of
larger MSS. called EXPERIENCE FOR SALE..."
Reprinted for educational reasons...
Author/Editor, Steve Plonk, retains reprint rights.
(Yes, folks there was a war on then, too.)

HAPPY PRESIDENT'S DAY!Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Sun Feb 20, 2011 6:04 pm

"Polar Bear Club Penny Haiku"
By Steve Plonk

(a)
I'd like to go swim in the ocean
I'd like to go swim in the sea
I'd like to go swim in the ocean
But it's much too far for me...

I'd like to swim in Walden's Pond
I'd like to swim in Chicamauga Lake
I'd like to swim in Walden's Pond
But it's much too cold, for goodness sake...
***
(b)
How do they stand the cold in Lake Huron?
How do they deal with the ice?
How do they stand Lake Superior?
When warmer times will suffice?

Ice fishing in winter is okay, I guess...
When the lakes have great ice cover,
But I prefer warmer times to fish,
In my swim trunks in a flatboat rover.Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Sat Feb 26, 2011 12:25 am

"Aho Penny Haiku"

Heading up to more readable heights,
More people seem to come out in the nights,
So now you don't have to scroll down to read me,
Perhaps then you'll be more apt to post & heed me.
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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Sun Feb 27, 2011 1:46 pm

"Sunday Breakfast Penny Haiku"

Sapsucker pecking on the house slats,
Waking up to gentle mews from house cats,
Getting jiggy to get our bacon & eggs cooked,
Another Sunday morning in our warm winter nook.Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by joel » Fri Mar 04, 2011 11:30 am

Steve Plonk wrote:
Sapsucker pecking on the house slats,
Waking up to gentle mews from house cats,


Sitting down to pen my prayer
Of thanks for poets' mornings fair.

Steve, these are always great! Thanks for blessing me with thanks to give!"Every genuinely religious person is a heretic, and therefore a revolutionary" -- GBShaw
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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Fri Mar 04, 2011 11:56 pm

Thanks, Joel, I'll keep these "gems in the rough" coming... Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Sat Mar 12, 2011 12:06 am

"Revelation Penny Haiku"
By Steve Plonk

There is no human strength,
Just varying degrees
Of weakness...
Our only strength comes
From G-d who made
Heaven & earth...
So let us pray for
That gift of strength
From our Lord,
To get us through trying times/ Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by joel » Sat Mar 12, 2011 3:25 pm

Steve Plonk wrote:
Thanks, Joel, I'll keep these "gems in the rough" coming...
And you deliver. Sweet."Every genuinely religious person is a heretic, and therefore a revolutionary" -- GBShaw
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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:47 pm

Appreciate your reading, Joel. Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Doreen Peri » Sun Mar 13, 2011 9:16 pm

I'm enjoying your poetry, Steve!
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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by creativesoul » Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:49 pm

on a roll thereAttachments
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by Steve Plonk » Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:51 pm

Appreciate you Doreen and Creativesoul...
Creativesoul, that rainbow beach photo was a nice gesture... Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Sun Mar 27, 2011 5:39 pm

“Dozing Penny Haiku”
By Steve Plonk

Bring out the dream to get away
From the ills of today
Feel yourself make the escape
Feel yourself free-up your astral soul
Feel yourself rip away the scorpion
Of painful times
Feel your breath
Feel yourself breathe deeply
Feel yourself know bliss
Feel yourself aware
Feel your mood change
Feel yourself flow & drift
Feel yourself doze/

Circa March 1976, revised March 2011.


“Acting Out Penny Haiku”
By Steve Plonk

Acting out is when you’re making it
While you’re faking it
There are ways & means
Foma of pretense
Sham, buffoonery, laughter,
Diversion, travelogue
Gangsters & lovers of love
Filmmakers of fantasy
Guitar players & ax grinders
Everything seems like a video game
Stage of here & now
You are playing your own audience/

Circa March 1976, revised March 2011.Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by creativesoul » Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:48 pm

good stuff- keep on ,,, sweetreason is over rated, as is logic and common sense-i much prefer the passions of a crazy old woman, cats and dogs and jungle foliage- tropic rain-and a defined sense of who brings the stars up at night and the sun up in the morning---creativesoul

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:26 pm

Appreciate you reading...Glad you liked it, creativesoul.
Here's another...


"Cool Spring Day Penny Haiku"
By Steve Plonk

When the sunshine comes through
Windowsills, I get a-hankering
To ride through our Tennessee hills.
Just cruising with my family,
For all the sights to see,
Wisteria and Chinaberry growing,
Hyacinth breezes blowing,
Up and down we ride,
Across the countryside...Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by joel » Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:29 pm

It's not for nature's latest verse
or prophecy of dirge and hearse
but simply turned on edge, and bowed:
the narrow and the twisted road;
and as it's promised life before,
now banner me with life once more
and fracture me and scatter sore
and salve my skin to match my core."Every genuinely religious person is a heretic, and therefore a revolutionary" -- GBShaw
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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Tue Apr 05, 2011 5:47 pm

Thanks for that one, Joel. Here's another from me, also posted
on the GO forum in a slightly different form...

SPRING FORWARD PENNY HAIKU
By Steve Plonk

Gotta keep on flowing where we're going,
Whether it's sunny, rainy, or snowing,
Indefatigueable & rolling with finesse,
No matter whether things are great, or
If things are in distress--
Positive thinking helps get us through
We see the positive in me and in you...
I keep the light shining in the windows...
Listening to the tweets of returning swallows...Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by creativesoul » Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:41 pm

swallows mmm brings up old houses in fishing and lumber towns, now steel mills down too- at any rate i like the writingreason is over rated, as is logic and common sense-i much prefer the passions of a crazy old woman, cats and dogs and jungle foliage- tropic rain-and a defined sense of who brings the stars up at night and the sun up in the morning---creativesoul

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Wed Apr 06, 2011 2:54 pm

Creativesoul, It's nice to be appreciated. Thanks. Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by joel » Wed Apr 06, 2011 3:38 pm

Steve Plonk wrote:
It's nice to be appreciated. Thanks.

Yes it is."Every genuinely religious person is a heretic, and therefore a revolutionary" -- GBShaw
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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Sun Apr 10, 2011 11:24 am

Joel, again, thanks for reading...wish I had more readers lately...
See my comments on your pieces... Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Mon Apr 11, 2011 11:48 am

"Worried Penny Haiku Blues"

By Steve Plonk

Inflation, inflation, inflation...
Can't get it outta my head,
I worry about the price of fuel,
The price of bread...
Fills me full of dread...
We need to share to get relief,
Need to have farm co-ops,
It is my belief...
Big fuel corporations
Agribusiness
Need to be taxed,
Only way scarcity
May be relaxed...Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by happytrails » Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:06 am

Steve, I enjoy your penny haiku. I love some of the words you use to describe what you say, not the least of which is "cawing cards". That one made me laugh out loud for real. Not just the little lol that people leave without so much as a smile, but a real belly laugh.

Keep them coming. I love them.happytrails

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Mon Apr 18, 2011 10:07 pm

happytrails, Pleased that you liked the humor in many of my pieces. Thanks
for reading! Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Sun May 08, 2011 8:13 pm

"Obama Got Osama Penny Haiku"
By Steve Plonk

(a)
Hour's getting near eight,
Another time i tried to be provocative,
I wished Osama bin-Laden would:
Go to hell in a tin pie plate--
Got immediately published in "Bog-Gob"
Speaking poetic talkative,
Trying to not get too crockative...
***
(b)
Bin-Laden, who lived by the saber,
Gets taken out by "special ops" caper,
Which succeeded in getting Osama
Going to hell in a shroud,
Off an aircraft carrier,
As folks lately take up the chant,
Say it out LOUD:
"Obama got Osama!",
To four-four time,
During an Armed Forces parade...
"They wrapped Osama in clean white sheet,
Throwed him down in the darkened deep..."
***
(c)
A courier got Osama made--
Seals had to shoot the messenger, too...
They didn't miss Osama in Abbottabad either,
Because he beat up people he didn't like
(In that Pakistani town) that got too close to
His bodacious million dollar compound on their bike...
Seals wrapped Osama in a clean white sheet,
Throwed him down to "Davy Jones Locker"--
Now Satan uses Bin-Laden's head to play soccer...
***
(d)
Old Osama's going through Satan's heavy
Metal detector, as goes a cartoon hector...
Critics of my bluster should remember,
That 9/11 victims had no shields
When jet planes were used as a vector,
For mass destruction on a scale unknown,
For terrorists acting out on their own...
My first thought was that revenge was sweet,
Avenging the death of an acquaintance,
Was quite an amazing feat...
Obama got Osama,
Succeeding in quite a "special ops" drama!
Praised be! Says this old pesky flea...

Also see Rant & Rage forum, on my thread "Trip Trap and Attachments", page 1, on that thread. In addition, See Action Poetry, on Litkicks.com.
Thanks for reading...Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by mnaz » Sun May 08, 2011 9:10 pm

well, if it makes you happy..
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Page 3 of same thread...

by Steve Plonk » Sun May 08, 2011 9:17 pm

Thanks for reading, Mnaz, or whatever...
Here's another to knock you down with a feather...
Obama's magic feather...


"Bejeweled bird Penny Haiku"
By Steve Plonk

Spells may be broken,
But at the moment,
Viewing a peacock has
Gotten my mind
All turquoise & venetian blue...
A salute to Spring & you!
True blue, says the bird,
Before spreading finery,
Takes my brain to the winery!

(Also see version on Judih's "Apathetic Peacock")Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by mnaz » Sun May 08, 2011 10:06 pm

yeah, like this changes everything.
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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Sun May 08, 2011 10:29 pm

"Abracadabra Penny Haiku"
by Steve Plonk

(a)
Presto change-o,
Nothing ventura, nothing gains-o.
Smoke and mirrors,
Mission procurers.
With magic feathers,
Ventured clearers,
Accumulated treasures,
Through rose-colored glasses...
Some opposition are tools,
Obama still rules...
He de man,
With a winning hand...
Cryptic sayings
Double dosed playings,
With "Moosehead" beer...
***
(b)
Just got in the clear
Bluebird has come near,
World spins 'round,
Coming back to town,
With feather in my cap,
Got my lip starting to flap,
With my tongue full of syrup-sap,
Hello out there old chap...
***
(c)
Now my flag's unfurled,
I'm nekkid to the world,
Been through something funny,
With my longtime honey,
The world is napping,
My tongue's still a-flapping,
Shooting the breeze,
Nekkid at my knees,
I salute all those who fly,
Or who're about to die,
Or those who make it,
Away from death's eye...
***
(d)
Away from the saddening crowd,
I pause for station identification,
I'm popping with populist pride,
For our mighty majestic nation...
I stand with my heart covered
By my hand, in civilian salute,
For this wonderful land,
With a mighty breeze blowing
At my old silverback,
I praise and wave at mighty stripes & stars.Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by mnaz » Sun May 08, 2011 11:37 pm

yeah,
like this changes everything.
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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Mon May 09, 2011 12:00 am

"Widow's Mites from Heaven Penny Haiku"
By Steve Plonk

Eh, Everything changes
In an instant, like yeah,
The luck of the draw...
You are the actor
You are the stage
Speaking words of surreality...
G-d is the audience,
With a few internet friends--
Even presidents may read
A few lines before bed...
There's no strength,
Just differing degrees of weaknesses,
Life is a soccer game or a tire swing,
Wars and peace come and go,
Perpetually in flux, like the floods
Or the dry spells...
Checking the weather report...
What's new, folks?
Shed a little light on me...

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Sat May 14, 2011 4:38 pm

"Pie in the Sky Penny Haiku"
By Steve Plonk

Sing songs of six pence
Pocket full of sky
Twenty thousand poppies
Baked in a pie
When the pie was opened
'Lady Morphine' was there
Soon everybody
Was pulling up a chair--
Boom! The whole room
Was floating in the air...
Where is the antidote
When living on the float?Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Wed May 25, 2011 11:49 pm

"Friendly Pooches I have Known, Penny Haiku Series"
By Steve Plonk

(a)
Where the trees are nice & shady,
Walks a little black dog on a leash
Called baby Sadie,
She is a "jack russell" & rat terrier mix
Who wags her tail like a drum on boxes
Licks my hand and scatters her kibble,
After a perfunctory gobble & a nibble...

(b)
Sadie & I saunter here & over there
Where the dabbled shaded breezes air,
Sadie sniffs squirrels up trees,
Listens to the birds chirp & buzzing of sweat bees,
Sees a stray piece of cheddar cheese to seize,
Piddles about next to the dogwoods breeze,
Not to mention the scent of honeysuckle & "fleur de lis"
Which if she snuffs too hard, they make her sneeze...
Just a day in dogs life & mine
I think little black Sadie baby is just so fine.Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Sun Jun 12, 2011 3:11 pm

"Nightlight Catalog Penny Haiku"
By Steve Plonk

Red light
Green light
Yellow light
Headlight
Taillight
Parking Light
Signal light
Kleig light
Footlight
Streetlight
Runway light
Starlight
All so lighted
In Moonlight
So we can see
At night--
See, up there,
Planes lighted in flight...
Welcome to night
Light land of nod...Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by creativesoul » Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:26 pm

chickens sometimes sound mocking
christmas trees and flocking
nothing that is ever real hurts like terrorism- not mistaking it for love is our hormonal mistake-reason is over rated, as is logic and common sense-i much prefer the passions of a crazy old woman, cats and dogs and jungle foliage- tropic rain-and a defined sense of who brings the stars up at night and the sun up in the morning---creativesoul

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Mon Jun 13, 2011 10:54 pm

Thank you, Creativesoul, here's another bunch,
for your mind to lunch...


"Feathered Proclamation Penny Haiku Series"
By Steve Plonk

(a)
Robins sing,
Mockingbirds cry
We feel so fly
Time to proclaim
Christmas in July...
Why not in that month
Instead of December?
A month, July, that glows like an ember,
Hot, like a "Cinderella", sweet July...

(b)
Holly bushes grow year round,
Shouldn't Christmas cheer resound
Even in July? Like Pentecost in May?
What a strange church calendar
We have anyway!?

(c)
Christmas stays put while Easter
Moves around like moon's firefly.
So, this year, let Christmas
Spread itself around--
Let's share the joy in
Our midsummer's night dream!

(d)
Birds on the fly
Like to feather their nests in July
Speak with tweets and chirps
Quote songs which last
Carols of hatching eggs & flight
Way into the starlight night.Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by creativesoul » Mon Jun 13, 2011 11:41 pm

bravo=reason is over rated, as is logic and common sense-i much prefer the passions of a crazy old woman, cats and dogs and jungle foliage- tropic rain-and a defined sense of who brings the stars up at night and the sun up in the morning---creativesoul

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Thu Jun 16, 2011 3:54 pm

Thanx! Creativesoul. I currently am out on the patio listening to "Sussudio"(sic).
Soon we'll be headed to Riverbend Festival in nearby Chattanooga, TN. Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Wed Jun 29, 2011 7:13 pm

AGAPE PENNY HAIKU
by Steve Plonk

I don't have big money, nor fame--
I don't have a job
That brings public acclaim--
But I think I
Have a gift from above:
My conscience overflows
With brotherly love...Steve Plonk

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by Steve Plonk » Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:26 pm

"Horizon Penny Haiku"
By Steve Plonk

Like all good poems
The cream rises to the top
Like in an old milk bottle--
So I push in the old throttle,
Clearing a mental hurdle,
Get poems out fast
Before they curdle--
***
Herein is a poem
I chose for you
'Cause I didn't
Have a rose for you--
A figurative rose in my teeth,
To cheat the time thief
Who steals the minutes away...
On the horizon, I glimpse
That butt crack of dawn,
Keep the keyboard a-moving on...
With more cynicisms & witticisms,
Just for the eternal you...

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Re: Part 2, More Penny Haiku...
by stilltrucking » Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:46 am

coddle or curdle
I got no poem
just ten gold double eagles
that changes everything
life is good again

back in the days of the
Former You S A
that was a lot of money

penny haiku
"and a penny for my thoughts
would not tax my mind at all"

Obama is no chump

Besides that, who else am I going to vote for?

Picture of gold coin attached.

Page 4 , of same thread...

by Steve Plonk » Sun Jul 10, 2011 11:42 am

"Course Correction Penny Haiku"

Thanks to my readers,
I make future course corrections,
To fine tune my poesy,
To head 'em toward
A fine inspection,
So maybe future editors
Will not send out a rejection...
***
Some folks stint so nicely,
So precisely,
That all they advise
Turns to gold...
Helping us make little
Dream vignettes
Which others may behold...


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