Frank James Ryan Jr...fjr Poems

Anytime it passes when I surf
I'll stop and back-track rapidly
and excitedly as if I'd found
the lost continent of Atlantis....
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Below poem is a tribute written in
September of 2013 but never before
posted on this site...Now it is...
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They all stood still, juxtaposed,
sore exhausted from the hate;
some had lost their Religion,
wondering how their Mighty God
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Thinking out of the box is not necessarily
a panacea to a garden of long stem roses,
for if it were, what challenge would it pose
in achieving the excellence and accolades.
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They who take pride in wrest and usurp
never see their own shadow behind them,
stalking, haunting their amoral manner -
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A Modern-Contemporary Senryu
written with the syllabic re-
quirement of Traditional Zen-
style Haiku...(5...7...5)
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Let's Have us A Wee Bit of Fun With
My Noble Attempt at Creative Levity...

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Standing alone in the sand, bored,

you begin to count to yourself
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The banner yet flies
Red demon to the eyes
On Site and into Sight
Someone 86 this Byte? !
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Red Banner, Bright Red
Cyber flying overhead
Below the PH Masthead
Like Dawn of the Dead
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