END-OF-DAY HAIKU
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Forecast warm, sunny,
Workplace: energized hub-bub…
Hallways empty fast!
–Jonathan Caswell
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TOYING WITH TANKA
TOYING WITH TANKA
Been taken as a fool
A two-hundred dollar school,
Burning with laughter
Their laughter–smiling at me
Smilingly to the bank vault!
–J.E.C.
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Successful robins
Pulling worms out at their will
Feeding generation
Filling nests of happy broods
Serenading the damp woods!
–J.E.C.
SOME PENTATETTE SUBMISSIONS:
SOME PENTATETTE SUBMISSIONS:
I submitted limericks to THE PENTATETTE** for several years. These are just a few.
It’s raining and snowing together,
The perfect Worcester (Mass.) weather…
But here’s the trick,
It better not stick
With cars driving hell-for-leather!
–J.E.C.
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Blogging of a starlet’s spiral
Downwardly took off viral…
What is stank,
She laughs to the bank
Not caring her story’s hirel.
–J.E.C.
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I once had red hair you see,
But grey, black and bald’s left to me…
My prejudice arose
‘Gainst the men I suppose,
Because anger for me was easy!
–J.E.C.
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In October his Mom died of cancer,
After all this time there’s no answer…
Why he’s not cried
But deep inside
The issue takes more than a glance, sir.
–J.E.C.
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He once knew a family from Douglas
Whose home was practically bug-less…
They sprayed lots of mist
With chemical fist,
Poisoned the dog and went pugless!
–J.E.C.
**THE PENTATETTE is an on-line and printed newsletter specifically for limericks. See http://www.limericks.org for details.
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IT’S MARCH, ALREADY!
IT’S MARCH, ALREADY!
Ice melt dripping from eaves,
The warm-up giving reprieves…
To snow laden roofs
Whose strength many proofs
Apparent in designs conceived.
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Bedraggled bushes appear,
‘Though snow banks still come to “here”…
Once eight foot–now six–
Out in the “sticks”
Trees shelter snow cover, my dear.
–Jonathan Caswell
HIGH WHITE WALLS
HIGH WHITE WALLS
Frigid mountains window-high
Leave the view of only sky…
One consolation,
Extra insulation,
For the apartments nearby.
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Winter’s blizzard blow
Piled great mountains of snow…
Partial proof
Of snow from the roof,
So fear of collapse would go!
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Wind buffing snow pile tops bare,
All that snow be somewhere…
Look in he lees
After the breeze–
Great need for road plowing out there.
–Jonathan Caswell
PUSHING THE HOURS
PUSHING THE HOURS
The day after Valentines
I couldn’t sleep between the lines…
TV murmurs hurt me so,
I had to let ideas flow.
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Writing in the dark of night
By turning on another light
I find it good to awake stay,
Meeting early the light of day.
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Scientific theory says
To push your hours ’round till bed…
Establishing circadian
Rhythms in a sleepy head.
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All-nighters pulled
During school
For older men
Remain a tool!
–Jonathan Caswell
PRECONCEIVED NOTIONS
PRECONCEIVED NOTIONS
The doctor removed the bone chip
Whose blood made the nurse flip…
He was blamed
For the quantity of same,
Reputation has that strong a grip!
–Jonathan Caswell
THE PLATEAU
THE PLATEAU
Why does he not progress,
A subconscious reason I’d guess…
Gets less attention,
Social intervention,
Riding on the healing express?
–Jonathan Caswell
GEORGE REEVES DID IT.
GEORGE REEVES DID IT!
Superman–Geoge Reeves–
Stomps his feet…flying achieves…
In dreams so did I
When prompted to fly,
On certain R.E.M. eves!*
–Jonathan Caswell
* R.E.M. …Rapid Eye Movement sleep, when most dreams happen…”eves” short for evenings–like New Years Eve.
MARATHON MAN
MARATHON MAN
He’s gone and lost another toe,
Which lengthens his world of woe…
Sitting quite still
Takes much will,
There are things to be done, ya know!
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Months of one foot elevated
Are extended by another amputated…
The older wound stitched,
No longer bewitched
By evening nurses anticipated.
(nurses coming only once-a-day now)
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Determined to not fool around,
He wants to work again sound…
He’ll do what it takes
To avoid sugar cakes
And keep his blood sugar down!
–Jonathan Caswell
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