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[M]

The drain, circular
and symbolic of holeness,
The runoff sought it.

[Guy]

M wrote: "The drain, circular
and symbolic of holeness,
The runoff sought it."

LoL! Wow, so clear. Excellent.

[Guy]

A hole is useful
when it is wholly empty
around holy tears.

[M]

(Thank you, Guy! I’ve been rereading Jung’s The Undiscovered Self. It remains one of the most insightful commentaries I’ve ever read.)

Numinous happen-
ings wrecked his attachment to
the ten thousand things.

Now, a transcendence
mounting, he was past doing
the firm’s accounting.

[Guy]

M wrote: "(Thank you, Guy! I’ve been rereading Jung’s The Undiscovered Self. It remains one of the most insightful commentaries I’ve ever read.)

Numinous happen-
ings wrecked his attachment to
the ten thous..."

Love the Haiku.

Yes, The Undiscovered Self is a powerful and even transformative read for me. Great insight, as you say, and so helpful to find my feet and an orientation to this world of humans in a numinous universe.

[Guy]

Without accounting
Suns uncountable begin
in enlightenment.

[Ryan]

Silent tears at dawn
My half-mast heart in tatters
London Bridge is down

[Guy]

Tears resound without.
Lightly, so softly, wending
Towards the river.

[M]

When the bridge collapsed,
its submerged, rusting framework
attracted game fish.

[Doug]

What am I doing
I don't know where I'm headed
I guess I'll find out

[Guy]

Outside of the find
Where the river flows up stream
And the swallows swim.

[Brett]

My favorite chair
Why is someone sitting there?
Where shall I sit? Where?

[Doug]

Nature made a place
To sit and watch the world pass
It stays behind me

[Guy]

Under the behind
nature rests in comfort; to
fart or not to fart.

[M]

Blackbeard at first taught
ethics, but wearied and took
a sabbatical

for research to write
a book, then wound up in do-
ings piratical.

[Guy]

M wrote: "Blackbeard at first taught
ethics, but wearied and took
a sabbatical

for research to write
a book, then wound up in do-
ings piratical."

LOL. Gilbert and Sullivan beware; avast me hearties.

[Guy]

A perchance penzance,
And ethical conundrum:
What is the ship's shape?

[M]

The curvaceous shape
of Spanish treasure galleons
anchored in lagoons.

[Guy]

All eyes turned starboard
The pirate queen's long sabre
Called to adventure.

[Brett]

Supersize
By Brett Starr on September 25, 2022

Cheeseburger and fries
It should come as no surprise
Adds size to my thighs

[Brett]

Free Advice
By Brett A. Starr on September 28, 2022

A word to the wise
Good decisions - exercise
Don't rationalize

Footnote: There are two things to remember about "Free Advice:" 1. It's free, and 2. You don't have to take it. But, you may want to give it a thought before taking action.

[M]

Her mornings were marked
by fraught decisions; her nights
by verses Sapphic;

her days by screeching,
narrowly missed collisions
in noonday traffic.

[Brett]

Morning Hair

By Brett A. Starr on September 29, 2022



Oh, my morning hair

What a mess – I do not care

A hat I will wear


Footnote: Ah, nothing like a good haiku about the good ole college days in the late 80's. I used to wake up 10 minutes before eight, throw on sweats and a hat, grab a pop-tart and head to class. For every problem, there is usually more than one solution. A hat seemed like the best at the time.

[M]

The girl who’d helped him
choose a sink now peered at him
from depths of his drink.

[Brett]

Dad joke humor brings
Crickets and one hand clapping
The sound of silence

[M]

Barb served the evening’s
libation. Crickets furnished
the orchestration.

[Brett]

Very clever indeed, M.

[M]

Thank you, Brett!

[M]

No awnings relieved
the wind’s whitish haze. He wore
a wide-brimmed straw hat,

followed board sidewalks
and worn stairs, the dog days
that Year of the Cat.

[Ryan]

Poised to scare dawn’s crows
He stands watch in fields of night
Straw hat silhouette

[C. J., Cool yet firm like ice]

Straw hat, corn cob pipe
a man with upright bare feet
dreaming, rocked in chair

(I haven't done these in a while. Boy am I rusty lol!)

[Guy]

Hello Ryan, nice to see you here with a nice can of oil to help de-rust your words. Very nice.


The stoned rocker sat
Quiet in the still rocking chair.
The cat took his pipe.

[M]

Hello Ryan, C. J., and Guy!

Dusk’s full moon was signed
by Betty Crocker. Bart drawled,
“I’m off my rocker!”

[M]

The styled signature
didn’t seem faked--not something
specious or half baked.

[Guy]

Cookie dough diets,
Raw, served with creamless ice-cream
FDA approved.

[M]

Wanda Lou’s bowel
removal now awaited
her aunt’s approval.

[Guy]

M wrote: "Wanda Lou’s bowel
removal now awaited
her aunt’s approval."

LoL! Gracias. :-D

[Guy]

I wanda'd where
the bowers shower flowers
and the ants are few.

[Ryan]

The ant eater’s aunt
liked to devour salted ants
fresh showered in flour

[M]

All the ant-ers worked
for Planters, brainwashed with schemes
of flour power.

[Ryan]

Haha! Nice, M.

[Guy]

The peanuts' nutters
Were avuncular hunters
Of antlers and mice.

[M]

The nutters’ nieces’
uncles, thorn pricked, had swollen,
oozing carbuncles.

[Nicky]

oozing carbuncles,
those swollen, nutty uncles
gulped down antifungals!

[Guy]

The fun gals were swell
With lips red, white with stollen
Frowning and sullen.

[Brett]

Frowning and sullen
Those doggies ain't a rollin'
Rawhide reigns pullin'

[Guy]

The dry pond reeds reel
Above the dog fish swimming
Reading the real sun.

[M]

Her yacht, polished bronze
and teak, she sailed to Quebec
to fish for choupique.

[Guy]

And yet. And nyet
Was not brass clap trap enough
for nyuk nyuk?

[Guy]

A head of knuckles
A buckler joyfully rides
The tall seas of grass.