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alive on subway senryu
alive on subway senryu
space feels close to hell
rumbling underground death-trap
did not plunge today
public platform
exacerbating delays
softening subway
speeding through tunnels
boundary between two spots
modern convenience
people feel alive
navigating city streets
defying traffic
exist on subway
surrounded by city folk
heading to their homes
routine daily nap
wake-up at destination
good use of subway
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Written for:
Poetics: New view for you
Prompt, by @cmschoenfeld, was to “have some fun and write subway poems.”
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Photo Credit: roniweiss – flicker page © All Rights Reserved
senryu of childhood
senryu of childhood
dreaming of princes
in a most childish state
unrealistic
crayons stuffed in holes
garden filled with many toys
children live inside
birth of prophecy
childhood Armagedon
rank hysteria
those childhood friends
lost for several decades
link to each other
end of childhood
complicated histories
professional poetics
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Written for:
Prompt #110 – Childhood
Photo Credit: See pictures of heroic dogs in the military
Photo Credit: roniweiss – flicker page © All Rights Reserved
border kids
border kids
eight years from birth
parents don’t care
no place for vacation
tourists beware
iraq/turkey border
aggressive kids harass
they beg you for money
they’re a pain in the ass
no business
no pleasure
it’s no place
for leisure
why go to school
when bullies abound?
where are the parents?
no where to be found!
an audience watches
and they get in your way
if don’t give them money
they might make you stay
no business
no pleasure
it’s no place
for leisure
no opportunities
nor fortune or fame
wild sassy kids
that no one can time
each day the patrols
shoo them off, hopelessly
they don’t heed them at all
they go on woefully
no business
no pleasure
it’s no place
for leisure
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border
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B is for Beginning interview with Berowne
Picture Credit: Ilya Varlamov
For more about Border Kids, see @roniweiss‘s youtube Roni On Location documentary on his adventures hitchhiking into Iraq from Turkey