POEMS
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Enjoy these free samples from HAIKU FOR YOU, and some NEW POEMS (newest poems at the top) not found in HAIKU FOR YOU.
On religion and faith:
THREE MEN AND THE ELEPHANT (in 7 haiku)
Three men of faith stand / Blind, before an elephant / each touches the beast
One man is a priest / The other is a rabbi / the third a Khateeb
One touches the tusk / He says of the beast, “It’s bone / Long, smooth and pointed.”
One touches the side / He says, “It is wide and tough / a building of skin.”
One touches the tail / He says, “You two are not right / It is thin and small.”
All are right in part / but none can see the whole beast / their perspective lacks
So none are correct / about the sum of the parts / despite their efforts
JESUS SAID (in 4 haiku)
She gave you life, but / I offer Life Eternal / So ask Me, not her
He gave you shelter / But I give shelter to all / So ask Me, not him
They offer wisdom / But I can offer you faith / So ask Me, not them
They are family / But I am the Son of Man / So ask Me, not them
On humanity:
WOW (in 3 haiku)
Wow, she is gorgeous / intelligent and lovely / and she knows my name
I must be dreaming / how could I be so lucky / or maybe I'm blessed
I'd better not hope / for too much, lest I get hurt / but certainly, "Wow!"
THE FOUR (in 3 haiku)
Redhead and Cuban / And the Hausfrau and Husband / They bicker and love
Around the clock and / in ev'ry known country they / bring laughter and tears
Never forgotten / ev'ry generation learns / how funny The Four
On nature:
PLATES (in 2 haiku)
The tectonic plates / Are shifting every minute / nothing stays the same
The Earth lives and breathes / turning, churning and burning / and we hold on tight
NEW POEMS:
HOPE VS. FAITH (in 6 haiku)
It's hope against faith / in a battle for the soul / which is salvation?
Hope can expect things / faith only believes things come / which is the true path?
Hope can result in / such crushing disappointment / and faith can be lost
Are either enough / to sustain the dreams of Man / or are they both false?
For me, hope is vain / because it's based around me / faith is based on God
So my choice is faith / and hope can wait for others / who don't know God's love
DEAR GOD (in 10 haiku)
Dear God, You love me / of this I am quite certain / so please end this pain
I apologize / for ev'ry thing I did wrong / now please make it right
I really have tried / of this You are quite certain / so please let me smile
I won't mess it up / this time I will not fail you / if given the chance
Your plan cannot fail / and I know there's room for me / in Your divine wish
I will stay in faith / for another day, at least / this is what You want
But the days are long / and the nights still terrify / so enlighten me
Why the trial drags on / why ev'rything I try fails / why I falter so
Or don't,it's okay / I'll keep doing all I can / to make the pain end
And we'll celebrate / together our ultimate / successes in full
TIGER WOODS (in 12 haiku)
Tiger Woods is great / but his challenges, greater / redheads can't be beat
Keep swinging, Tiger / and please forget those freckles / if it's possible
Forget it, Tiger / she was just no good for you / but she was sure hot
If she was a crime / I would say, "Judge, not guilty" / any man would fall
If you can't rise now / because you had to rise then / it's the price of lust
It takes the punch out / leaves the fighter stunned and weak / but oh, those freckles
and that creamy skin / hey, I sympathize, Tiger / just try to forget
You're only human / you are not an elephant / you can forget, right?
So keep swinging, mate / you'll be on top again, lad / but look under you
And see the golfers / that you taught to play the game / and not that lovely
Or you may never / be the man we all admire / except for me, Tige'
I remember her / red hair and that creamy skin / you are my hero
THE BIG MAN (a haiku)
The Big Man is gone / now the Boss and his huge crew / will miss his big sax
TIMES OF TRIAL (in 5 haiku)
Times of Trial are long / but trial is the only way / to prove innocence
The guilty don't care / just how long the trial may be / they always get off
But the just must wait / for their long-deserved reprieve / and to be returned
Jails of the soul fill / with all those who made mistakes / and have to suffer
But their times of trial / drag on and on, ceaselessly / while they waste away
HOW TO FRY AN EGG (in 3 haiku)
Over-medium / does not mean over-easy / and not over-hard
The second, runny / the third is cooked hard and dry / the first is tricky
the white should be cooked / the yolk should be partially / hard, but still runny
ANTHONY WEINER (in 12 haiku)
Foolish, arrogant / transmitting those photographs / lying about it
And a public man / with so much great ambition / should have known better
So much is wasted / all the good you could have done / your fight in the shade
Crawl away now, fool / red-faced, disgraced and stupid / unethical dolt
Your wife is with child / your family will see you / differently now
Now we've seen too much / much too much information / didn't want to know
Apicture is worth / a thousand words, but that one / is worthless and dim
Next time, show respect / to the public that you serve / and keep your pants on!
Let the lesson ring / to the next arrogant putz / go home to your wife
Don't flirt and don't cheat / be a real man for your kids / and the rest of us
Won't these people learn / that nothing is secret now / and technology
Reveals the hard truth / and all the indescretions / public men commit?
LAUGH TRACK (in 4 haiku)
The laugh track is dead / those clamoring idiots / aren't laughing now
They say the same tracks / used on "I Love Lucy" are / the ones that they used
For years afterward / and that makes some sense, at least / Lucy was funny
But we've outgrown them / comedies are more real now/ we know when to laugh
CHARLIE SHEEN (in 4 haiku)
Charlie Sheen is great / his enemies are many / his allies are strong
Tiger blood races / through his warlock arteries / that's why he's winning
With his porn star babes / in his Sober Valley Lodge / he rules Hollywood
But the heavy head / wears that thorny, golden crown / don't lose yours, Charlie!
LYBIA (in 3 haiku)
This time the reasons / are just and true and decent / no oil money
A time of crisis / a mandate of liberty / remove the despot
Age of tyranny / closes now with Lybia / so let it be thus
ARIZONA (a haiku)
Arizona scream / rhetoric will destroy the / American Dream
JAPAN (in 3 haiku)
Terrible tremble / waves of destruction follow / then the real fall-out
The bible promised / bub'ling oceans and vast death / is it happening?
Helpless in horror / disaster rolls forward now / but we all hold on