Frank James Ryan Jr...fjr Poems

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Massages my proclivity to invoke my born prowess,
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Oh! That night...the night they came
when the birch woods snapped and fell
in the deeps of Jonothan's Brook
coursing water mixed with blood,
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A Modern-Contemporary Triad Haiku
with the employment of the 5-7-5
syllabic requirement of Traditional
Zen style Haiku...........FjR
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A Senryu work with the syllabic
and metric adherence of Haiku.
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Free from the dread of mortality, the paralytic mind;
unengaged, in life's everyday posturing for position,
dis-cognizant to the reality, of their own distant world
with no exceptions beyond their own exclusive domain.
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She said, ''Go now...unto your silent sleep'',
Christ's Seraphim's await your deliverance,
Behind pillars of a Kingdom bare of crosses,
The sacred metamorphosis from body to soul.
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~A Hexad Modern Contemporary Haiku
with the syllabic requirement of
Traditional Zen Style Haiku~
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A Modern-Contemporary Haiku
with the syllabic employment
of Traditional Zen style 'Ku
(W/an untraditional lilt of humor)
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Tawny beige, young fox...
carries her arrogance well,
poisingly... upon narrowed wood
so dexterous, so 'smooooth',
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Melodrama paints a drone prone cyber-scape
of a canvass great poet's would sore abase.

P.C. nomads forum up like midnight stalkers
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