Frank James Ryan Jr...fjr Poems

Contemporary Haiku formatted with
the employment of Traditional Haikus
strict Syllabic requirement...
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Contemporary Haiku formatted
with the syllabic requirement
of Traditional Zen Haiku...
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Contemporary Senryu with the employment
of Traditional Haiku's syllabic standard-
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Call it Author's Tradition, but since I penned
the below work in early June of 2007 & I have
reposted it each year since 2010.In mid June of
2007, it debuted in the main PH Top 500 Poems List
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Come breathe me within you,
The fervor of my passing,
Of our love slowly dancing
To the rhythm of our souls.
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On the dawn of the morning next,
when I woke from sleep with hope-
the day before had never come.
Hope, mercilessly abandoned me,
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.....Seven Seals sans silver steeds, Satan's surreptition;
.....Regardless, Revelation's Rapture Realises resolution;
.....Beleaguers, bedraggles, beguiles bloody bastard Beast;
.....Causes caustic carpetbagger cancered catharsis, crisis;
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'tis a time for harvesting peace in crisis
'tis a time for harnessing cultural vices
'tis a time for mending bridges and fence
'tis a time for extending an olive branch, hence-
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Waiting on the morning train one Monday,
trying to ignore the happy morning people;
listening from a distance not so far away
to the jabberwocky gossip over black joe,
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You're making a witless lout of yourself
Can't you see, in your mirror of vanity
She said this, an' that, and finally she
Was as quiet and still as a cold body be
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