Frank James Ryan Jr...fjr Poems

Understanding the broad scope of all that has been
for two-hundred scores of years......probably more,
Is to realize that regardless of what the majority
of us wants, It is the minority who sets the stage
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The below work can be categorized
several ways (1) A modern-contemp-
orary Haiku...(2) Free Verse Tercet,
or(3) and what I consider most appro-
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Old woman rocking in her Gooseneck chair,
Embroidering scarves, with ominous stare,
Rolling white paper, Maryjane by her side,
Pining all who swear- by the Seer's Eye.
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Modern-Contemporary Haiku
w/syllabic requirement of
Traditional Zen style'Ku
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If not for the sanctity of the Soul,
a Ghost would have never appeared as a Dove
in deliverance... of Wisdom, Reason,
and Passion... in Tongues of Fire,
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[A Minute Verse]

_____MINUTE VERSEOLOGY____
What is a Minute Verse? Nothing much...
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_________Author's Prologue____________

Originally written for my (then) 12 year old daughter
on her challenge for me to write a rhyming poem in
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Our world is not yet hanging by its final thread,
for if it were, we'd all be reading Nostradamus,

yet, th' World is dangling loose by frayed nerves
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Arrogance...the varicose egos;
time and space is nothing more
than synchronized Death;
so, I wonder...wonder, wonder I do -
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Indifferent...and at times
we speak with forked tongue,
tightly wrapped in leather,
sometimes forced to breathe
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