Michael Pruchnicki Poems

Chic women on Sheridan Road
bedecked in mink and sable
diamond pendants dangling
from delicate earlobes
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tanka/haiku - No matter how much one may seek to extinguish one's feelings, the simplest observation of nature will deeply move precisely the sort of person who tries to 'abandon this world of illusion.'

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grasshopper glacier
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You may have thought
that all we had to do as soldiers
was fall out in good military order
and march in cadence
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What do you who post here
know of love? You brag
of your ejaculations!
That's your idea of love?
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It was a long time ago
on a river called the Imjin,
about thirty miles north of Seoul
when thousands of Chinese infantry
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Platoon sergeant woke me-
'You're going on next chopper out!
Your tour in shitland is over! '
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Indeed he who seeks neither
fame nor fortune
among the hungry hordes
but prefers tranqullity
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Today I burn in the cold waters of grace
Tomorrow I drown in the hot flames of lust

Today I am what I am
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Like petals on a yellow flower
all sticky and sweet for the bee
though each lasts its brief hour
some essence is the key
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I always thought
that guys like Big Oz
knew the score
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