Octogenarian
low-rider bicycle
banana seat
high handlebars
Cheshire cat smile

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this labyrinthine trail
sleek webs of silken threads
each laid and pulled
by motley fools
at minotaurs' behest

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#tanka #5lines

= vespers of brief mortality =

tomorrow always waits
yesterday laments our swift departure
today is
but a brief encounter
lost in swirling steam

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#bonsaiku
#soundsLike
#briefEncounter

be war e

frosty old geezer
still sleeping around
with your pale children
in cold poppy fields

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#ArmisticeDay #Remembrance #NeverAgain
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the silver years they spin
on lathes of heaven
so many slim saplings
they turned
to thin momentos

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= swamp surfing =

one
small step
for a felon
a giant leap
for unkind

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= at freedom's portal =

abstinence is such
a fine idea
if you can sleep
or hold your breath
like mammoths

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#5lines

the upstart man-child
a rocket in either hand
no head space for awareness
entailed by foul exhausts
and white acidic spume

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hunter's moon
scythes bloody skies
unaware whose bones have taken flight
nor whose careless hands
are hammers

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