Brainstorming haikus
In my current moments choose
Mind burns in my shoes.
Thoughts like rivers flowing,
Ideas start to take shape.
AAA/MAD 1/12/25
The first words
My very first lune of
the new year.
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I contemplate deeply
Before writing down initial words
Stream of consciousness.
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Slow at first
Like any poem I write
I speed up.
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Next I know
Something is working here now
Just keep going.
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Before too long
A lune series is born
First of 2025…
-AAA 01/01/2025
Composing haikus
Is as easy as breathing
For seasoned writers
Add two lines with seven beats,
and you have made a tanka.
AAA/MAD 12/26/24
Cordially invite
As all poets recite
Words through day and night.
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Inspiration strikes
Ideas flood the mind’s dikes
Like lightning it strikes.
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Words come fast enough
Shooting out straight from the cuff
No half-hearted bluff.
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Then the end is reached
No poignant lessons besieged
We’re all here to teach…
-AAA 12/26/2024
Find the words
That will touch the world
Making it better.
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Search your feelings
And write them all down
You’ll touch others.
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Edit then refine
Your work until it’s perfect
Then unleash it.
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Others will relate
Trust in that every time
You create something…
-AAA 12/26/2024
profound, initial questions
require an answer
taking pause and reflection
before a response
serious contemplation
for accuracy
lest the words applied, will fail
becoming pointless…
-AAA 12/26/2024
My
Mind
Is filled
With deep thoughts
Craftily delving
Into bright words that all just fit
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Far
From
normal
Different
My mold was broken
Revel in nonconformity.
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So
If
You see
Me walk by
You needn’t worry
I’m just buried in my writing…
-AAA 12/25/2024
Quadrilles are tricky to write
No matter if it is day or night.
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Words fit neatly together all in place
Keep the numbers or fall on your face.
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Two to four stanzas will get you there
All the writer needs to know is where.
-AAA 12/19/2024
Tankas with a friend
Endless fun that never ends
Words together mend
Laughter echoes through the air,
Sharing dreams without a care…
AAA/MAD 12/13/24
Clogyrnach rhymes syllabled time
Structure and rules are not a crime
Write closely to form
To maintain this norm
Or conform
To design…
-AAA 12/14/2024
Sunday, still in bed
Ideas, are in my head
My writing is fed.
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Four poems are down
Write four more without a frown
Then, toast of the town.
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Four day weekends burst
Making Monday such the worst
It’s December First.
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I will close this out
Without a scream or a shout
To my style, devout…
-AAA 12/01/2024
My words are my blood.
Placed on virtual parchment.
For your amusement…
-aaa
Originally Published 05/25/2024
Forty-four words isn’t a lot
I must use all the talent that I’ve got.
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To get my point across
So my audience is not at a loss.
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I count the words as I write
Doing my best to be contrite.
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So, here goes nothing…
-aaa
Originally Published 05/13/2024
I do not know how
to always say what I feel.
I just will go with my gut
and hope it works out.
If not, then fake it until
I make it like always.
That is how life tends
to work for us HSPs…
-AAA 11/13/2024
Writing is such fun
Sharing writing, even more
Write with a good friend
Brings a sense of peace within
Words can bring us together…
-AAA/MAD 11/09/24
Writing a rengay
Is quite difficult some say
I find it like play
The words dance in harmony
Crafting thoughts, they flow like streams
AAA/MAD 11/09/24
Writing a poem that’s Magic Nine
Does not take a sleight of hand
One might think the skill divine
Another tool in your poetic work shed
It’s not like walking a fine line
Quite liberating, a fun exercise
This poetic form is mighty fine
The finished product will be quite grand
If done well enough the readers will be kind.
-AAA 11/07/2024
A quick lune
Just to get me through
My morning posts…
-AAA 10/25/2024
My last poem
For this warm October Friday
My day complete.
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Just until Saturday
Then I’ll write some more
So don’t worry.
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I’ll be back
With many more creative ideas
On Sunday too.
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On that note
Have a wonderful weekend everyone
Live it up.
-AAA 10/11/2024
Frolicking on a warm Friday
Writing, a big part of my day
As the words come fast
I’m having a blast
As time’s past
Much to say…
-AAA 10/11/2024
Saturday morning
And it’s time to hustle
Without warning
Must use my creative muscle.
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Placing some prose
From mind to phone
Plenty of those
Quiet, here, alone.
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Coining a phrase
Or three or four
Whatever the case
I must write more.
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My Friday views
Are often low
Why all readers less choose
I guess I’ll never know
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All the while
I’ll get it straight
Write and file
Until I’ve done eight.
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Micro poems
A haiku or two
A Clogyrnach gem
Or Dizain in view.
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Then I can relax
Free of sorrow
Have a few snacks
Or write for tomorrow…
-AAA 10/05/2024
I
Lune too soon?
It is practically twelve noon
Such a buffoon…
-AAA 10/04/2024
Tanka very much
You are beyond most welcome
To write, anytime
In any format you please
Never let style restrict you…
-AAA 10/01/2024
Write in darkness of day.
Being everything that I may.
I have a lot to say.
As with words I play.
As I dabble at the fray.
Mysteries of life, inlay.
Uncovering emotions I constantly flay.
If successful, one day, own my own kay…
-AAA 08/31/2024
Laying in bed, it’s dark and day
The blackout curtains gently sway.
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Writing many works to blog one day soon
It’s dark and quite cool in my hotel room.
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Beside me she sleeps and gently snores
As poetry floods my mind more and more.
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I can’t type fast enough my fat finger foes
Clunking on my iPhone as I write my prose.
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Saturday morning, nearly afternoon
Vacation nearly over, homeward bound soon.
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Gentle sighs as she happily dreams
Of times that are as blissful, like now as it seems.
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Temperature, the story of old
Pulling up the covers as I get cold.
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Nearly finished now, nine poems in two hours
They’re flowing sweetly like fresh cut flowers.
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Feeling I know myself much more
Gazing at beauty, as she softly snores.
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I won’t wake her as I write
Letting her rest on this day of night…
-AAA 08/31/2024
Originally Published 04/26/2024
My thoughts don’t leave me.
They are always very close.
Ready to Create…
-aaa
Precise, holding fast,
Stitching fabric and story,
Securing our world
Making some sense of it all
Can seem like a fool’s errand…
-MAD/AAA 08/20/2024
Rhyme me a word
Neat, not absurd
Ones, never heard
Glorious work.
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Using a form
Maybe not norm
Never conform
I never shirk.
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Make something new
Much fun to do
Writing from truth
Ideas work.
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Create magic
It’s not tragic
Style not static
It is my quirk.
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All good tings end
Like this, my friend
My will can’t bend
As new thoughts lurk…
-AAA 08/06/2024
Clogyrnachs are quite hard to write
With contemplations day and night
Syllables and rhymes
And all in six lines
Words, I mine
As a rite…
-AAA 08/02/2024
I’m seeking poetic pursuits
Hoping all lyrics will bear fruits
I deftly adjust.
Wipe away the dust
Not a bust
No dispute
-AAA/MAD 07/25/2024
Writing about loons
Is stranger in a lune
Don’t you think???
-AAA 07/24/2024
Originally Published 04/22/2024
There once was an empathetic writer
In a blitz of creativity pulled an all-nighter.
📚
Writing haikus and prose
That tickled his nose.
📚
Not even writer’s bloque can stop this fighter…
-aaa
Two, four
Six, eight, and two
All cinquain syllables
Test your creativity, most
You’ll see…
-AAA 07/17/2024
Laying silently on my bed
No ideas, are in my head
Closed eyes, now rest a bit
You’ll find something after your sleep
Just relax, and your mind will keep
Everything it sees fit.
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Do not rush to awaken yet
Dreamt ideas are best to get
Once your dream ends, you rise
Now work, those new ideas, hard
Write with intention and regard
Shaped, right before your eyes…
-AAA 07/17/2024
Love and heartbreak are my muse
In my writings and my truths.
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To feel those extremes and feel them hard
And put them in words with careful regard.
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To share the purest and darkest of feelings
With life’s happiest and saddest dealings.
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Is a privilege and not a curse
Processing emotions and not feeling worse.
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Finding common ground with all around
Relating your words in your blog abound.
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I keep writing, day and night
Trying to get the rhythms, right.
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And when I want to break my norm
I try out new poetic forms.
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I like the technical aspects that apply
Just fitting in words and figuring out why.
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In the end when it’s time to share,
I make my edits and choose with care.
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Lest my poetry goes off the rail
Which would be an epic fail…
-AAA 07/11/2024
WordPress wisdom I must find
Patience of another kind.
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Glitches, clicks, and occasional crashes
Slowness and my smart phone flashes.
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Adding subscriptions is the rule
And growing your subscribers too.
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Scheduling drafts for publication release
Writing and pictures and adding with ease.
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At least I don’t get “no internet connection” now
They have remediated that bug, wow!
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Jetpack too, is what I use
Sure bets web browser abuse.
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In the end, WordPress beats writing a letter
With each rendition getting better and better…
-AAA 07/10/2024
Quick
you
must
work
frantically.
Before
you
lose
your
ideas.
In
a
word
sonnet…
-AAA 07/10/2024
Cinquains,
Are hard to write.
Count syllables, a lot!
Find the right words that fit your work.
Then hope…
-AAA 07/01/2024
It’s time to tell a very short story.
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Build it up with vivid imagery
In three multi-lined stanzas.
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Challenge yourself as much as you can
Use creativity everywhere,
And the cherita, practically writes itself
-aaa
Writing gets easier
When you do it often
Practice make perfect
-aaa
Use three words.
Then you use five words.
Then three words.
-aaa
Take
all
of
my
words.
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Lay
them
all
out
end
to
end.
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They’d
stretch
out
for
miles…
-aaa
Poetry has a beginning, middle, and end.
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First a line or two, appear in the minds eye.
Next we Expand on the initial ideas.
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Lastly, we examine all poetic forms we know.
Find one the best resonates with our ideas.
And finalize all lines and ideas to the adopted form.
-aaa
Why
write
a
haiku?
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With
so
many
other
poetic
forms.
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Well
I
say
why
not???
-aaa
Every poem is a battle
Fiercely fought over:
Words, technique, and style
I wish it came easier.
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But I have to claw and fight
For every word or phrase I write
Maybe I’m meant for other things
Like cooking fries and onion rings.
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Writing shouldn’t be a war
It should be a lot of fun
Not second-guessing to, abhor
It shouldn’t be fought, it should be won…
-aaa
All of my efforts.
Written words of permanence.
Forever shared here.
-aaa
Writing a lune.
Doesn’t take a lot of effort.
Just brief, creativity…
-aaa
This
Is
My
First
Word
Sonnet.
I
Hope
You
Enjoy.
If
Not,
Oh
Well…
-aaa
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