One Poem and 14 Haiku
Sheila E. Murphy
Allowance
Let me be
fatigued with you,
excused from
steering,
view a screen
somewhere
just us in blossom
near the open window
wind and fragrance
entering
to bring home
quiet happiness
with arms around
a meal of sleep
14 Haiku
hymnal, hymen, him, a buttered rum
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cinema, Ma Kettle, the fingering for F-sharp above middle C
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hampering the hamstrings, quality of being overdone, rotund
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out-of-kilter homonym, first born, little lamb a-linger
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filtration system, all the H2O you want, Ringling Bros, a fool
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cast your fat where fate, a windy day upon the proletariat
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within storm shelter, greed-love made, unwhispered sadness
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Montparnasse, faculty of silver, stretch goals in recession
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Reveille, unraveled darkness, tuck pointers’ advancing paws
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livestock chair, state fair governance, silver silhouettes
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repair of verb forms, medicinal as improvised, sutures taut
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unlearned officials, thin digs at warm weather unauthorized
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Noon meal, buttered noodles, Ian bringing in the mail
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veritas, by degrees all yellow haze, what happened in the park
Sheila E. Murphy treasures language (Pass it on). She is an avid individual and collaborative textual poet and visual poet. Her consulting work serves both public and private-sector clients. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Sheila E. Murphy at Wikipedia.
