Favourite Poems

Below are some of my favourite poems that were not written by me. Enjoy!

Hokku

night is a blue fly,

its two wings are copper:

silk dawn, satin dusk.

-everett hoagland

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xenobia phobia

hates to walk,

xenobia phobia

hates to talk.

xenobia phobia

hates to ride,

she hates the city

and the countryside.

hates her father,

hates her mother,

hates her sister

and baby brother

hates her uncles,

all her aunts,

hates her hamster

and the hanging plants.

she hates the circus,

hates the zoo,

hates birthday parties

and the color blue

she hates to dance

and hates to sing.

xenobia loves

to hate everything.

-eve merriam

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pigeon hole

no matter what

dread odds you face,

let no one put you

in your place.

the place they pick,

as fit and true,

will make a human

cube of you,

a joyless shape

not only numbing

but naturally

unbecoming.

for nature favours

freer ways:

wide open skies,

unbounded days.

a ready wing,

a questing soul,

unsuited for

a pigeon hole.

and so, my friend,

if you be fond

and dream of days

less cubicund,

come, cross the wires!

blow the tube!

it's not too late

to fly the cube.

-n.m bodecker