Singer – Songwriter
Living a tropical style
Life long beachcomber
Jimmy Buffett: I Have Found Me A Home
Tag: Poetry
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Haiku – Cat and Leaves
Dead leaves on the porch
A colorful enemy
Blowing with the wind
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Cat on attack mode
He’s chasing the leaves that are –
taunting him each day
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Haiku – Metallica
Metal Pioneers
In the music genre Thrash
Lars, James, Kirk, Robert
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Lest we not forget
Bass guitarists Cliff Burton –
and Jason Newsted
Metallica: . . . And Justice For All
What is Thrash Metal and how is it different than Heavy Metal? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrash_metal
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Haiku – Desert Nomad
Ancient secret clan
Riders of the desert sand
Living on the move
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Through the desert heat
Ancient and mysterious
Where do you come from?
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Inspired by Iron Maiden’s Nomad
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Inspired by the theme at
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Haiku – 2
Quickly the days pass
My son, 2 months old today
Time really does fly
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2 runs in 2 days
5 and a half miles covered
My legs need a break
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Haiku – Tree
For a hot day:
Please, take a shade break
Underneath my big green leaves
Escape from the sun
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For the apple tree:
I’ll hold your apples
Until my limbs get too tired –
and uninspired
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For the tree entering winter:
My leaves have fallen –
and my limbs are bare again
I can’t wait for spring
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Inspired by the theme at -
Poem – Morning Routine
. . . Baby wakes
My heavy eye lids,
pushed open with the sound
Trudge down the stairs
Dry thirst in my throat,
from the long night’s sleep
Wife wakes,
stumbles like a zombie out of bed,
follows my created footsteps,
to the nursery
Baby’s eyes meet the day
Feeding
Burping
Feeding
Burping
Feeding
Burping
Diaper change
Feeding
Burping
Feeding
Burping
Feeding
Burping
Stomach full
Time for play
Time for sleep
and
peaceful dreams
until
Baby wakes . . .
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Poem – Fragile Rotation
Fragile
We are all
Like glass
Easily shattered
Life
Tumbles
Day in – Day out
We evolve
Revolve
Like the spinning door
Around and around we go
Our feet upon this Earth
Who knows?
How long?
We have
Is there life beyond?
A heaven
A hell
Who knows?
Like glass
We are all
Fragile
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Haiku – Hula Girls
Moving – swishing – sway
Dancing to the island beat
With light skirts flowing
Just needed a little tropical break tonight. I hope you will take a moment and just breath in the islands and the magic they hold.
Traditional hula skirts are call Pa’u skirts and are made from brightly dyed fabric. The top of a Pa’u skirt contains casings that house long cords. Hulu dancers wrap the Pa’u skirt around their waist and tie the cords together on their left sides. Pa’u skirts come in different styles. Some contain a single cord and consist of a single panel of fabric. Other Pa’u skirts are made from multiple fabric panels with multiple rows of cording at the top. You can make a Pa’u skirt for yourself using printed cotton or polyester fabric.
via How to Make a Traditional Hula Skirt | eHow.com
If you’re interested in learning about the Hula Dance or the art of Hula Dancing, you are in the right place.
After me and my family went to Hawaii and spent a couple of weeks there, we fell in love with the hula dance. We also grew fond of the green, grassy skirts that are worn during the dance.
Here you’ll find videos that show various forms of the hula so you can see the dance in action. Other features are articles that discuss things like history all the way to how to hula.
If you have a love for Hawaiian dancing and would like to add a tropical flavor to your day, go ahead and click around.
via Hula Dance Head Quarters – HulaDanceHQ.com
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Haiku – Iron Maiden
A band from England
With Eddie as a Mascot
Heavy Metal Kings
Iron Maiden: Powerslave
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Haiku – The Candy Tree
Green leaves, lime flavored
With a bark of candy cane
and roots of sugar
My latest crazy idea – Haiku for kids.
The question is, does it work? Interested in hearing your thoughts on it. Of course if it was in a book it would have an illustration to go along with it – so you have to kind of imagine it like that.
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Haiku – Silence
Can we hold our tongue,
and let the silent voice scream?
With the Earth dying
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Election is done
Silence had power in the –
voting booth this week
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Poem – The Bubble Gum Tree
A new journey has begun in my poetry writing. I plan to start writing poems for kids and poems that parents can read to their kids. I hope to maybe get enough of them together to make a book someday with plenty of picture drawings to go along with them.
Let me know what you think.
Come and take a walk,
take a walk with me,
and we will go to find,
the Bubble Gum Tree.
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There we will sit,
hours on end.
Just you and me,
my little friend.
🙂
We will look at the colors,
all around,
and munch on the pieces,
that have fallen on the ground.
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We will,
laugh and play,
blowing bubbles,
all the day.
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Then when the evening sets,
and the day is done.
Home we will go,
with the setting sun.
🙂
But do not fret,
another day we’ll see,
when you and I will sit,
under the Bubble Gum Tree.
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Haiku – Today’s Run (11/08/2012)
Sunlight fading fast
Daylight reaches towards sunset
3 miles – kind of tough
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Haiku – Sky Fire 5
A flame colored light
Races across the white clouds
Turning them blood red
Sky Fire 1
Grey storm clouds parting
Turning the sky into fire
Day ends in a blaze
Sky Fire 2
Sunlight fading fast
Leaving embers in the sky
Day takes one last breath
Sky Fire 3
Rays of sun explode
As the day is closing down
The sky above burns
Sky Fire 4
White cotton ball clouds
Burning on a light blue sky
The world turns crimson
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Haiku – Carolina Day 2
Sun filled, light blue sky
Casual white clouds drifting
Lazy hammock day
Carolina Day 1
Blue skies and no clouds
A warm, bright, and beautiful
Carolina day
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Haiku – Today’s Run (11/06/2012)
Cold November day
Two and a half miles with ease
Fall leaves underfoot
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Leaves crackle and pop
Fighting off a strong stiff breeze
Dressed in winter clothes
It just feels good to get back out there.
I had to write something about it.
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Haiku – A Band Called Rush
Classic rock band
From the land of Canada
Geddy, Alex, Neil
Rush: 2112
Thanks to this album for the inspiration:
Something else about Rush that is of interest. Check out this link for it.
A Poetry Journey 