Frank James Ryan Jr...fjr Poems

Autumn expires, arbor curdles;
roots still nestle warm and deep;
ostensibly indifferent to encroaching change;
its' cancerlike process of death intrudes.
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The noise broke white
from far behind
so it seemed,
that it was,
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No longer have the nerve in me to stand
in front a loaded magnum in the hands-
of leaders who don't have a ****ing clue,
'bout leading...protecting me and you.
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Oh! That night...the night it stormed,
when the birch woods snapped and fell
in the deep of Jona's Brook
coursing water, black as blood,
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Strange as People can be at times
This cryptic Senryu carries strange lines...
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Caught a hint of ochre,
from the corner of my eye
dripping from an April dawn,
warming the tips
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So, now, that you have sewn your new harvest seeds,
and in its earnest, you have established due respect,
understanding that a job is not a good job 'til done
regardless of the blood-sweat that soaked your brow.
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Traditional Zen styled Haiku,
Nature themed with a wee bit
of Astronomical threadings.
My apologies to Matsuo Basho?
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To hell with their folly for death
of they who live by shibboleth,
who raise their offspring to believe
that Jews and Christians must be seen
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What has happened to you?
your hourglass is waning
of its sand-grain of life;
so obvious your changes
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