Frank James Ryan Jr...fjr Poems

The word is they found you dead last night,
alone.....on the porch of your Eastside digs,
a warm Crème de Cacao beside a hardbound
of Truman Capote's 'Portraits and Observations'.
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Haiku For The Agnostic Soul...


A Modern-Contemporary Haiku
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Hemispheres { Song For Rhyme & Reason }... (Rev/Rep)
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____________ PROLOGUE____________

Juéjù is a style of jintishi.... ('modern form poetry')
that grew popular among Chinese Poet's during the
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A Traditional Zen Style Haiku dedicated to
_______The Japanese Wood Sandpiper_______
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Below is a Senryu Verse
with the employment of
the syllabic requirement
of Traditional Zen Haiku
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It isn't the Mosques

It's mis-guided Imam words
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Why Can't They Say It?

''Radical Islam Terror'';
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The vacuum wasn't working today,
so a dozen infants were spared aspiration
from a room custom built as a suite
for natal genocide;
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Dolan's Nook cafe, on The City's west-side;
people come for joe.....the Wall St. Journal.
Meanwhile, outside...on the flagstone patio,
two elderly women gossip o'er gaelic roast-
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