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By Jane Reid

31/10/2014

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I'm guessing this is about someone Jane lost recently.

She left us 

Gently, in a morphine-eased sleep, 
Her cancer-riddled body 
Unable to go on. 
She did not leave alone. 
Friends gathered by her bed 
To watch, to pray, to wait 
For what we knew was coming 
And it came. 
She is gone. 
But not gone, because we will remember 
Her loving, caring spirit, 
Her bright shining talent, 
Her streak of naughty fun. 
She will stay with us 
Because she is one who cannot be forgotten.
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Three Haikus, by Russell Conover

30/10/2014

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I: The Writing Mindset

Authors publish works 
Fearlessly without thinking 
How others react. 


2: Writing Inspiration

Walking down the street 
I see spectacular sights 
I've never witnessed. 

3: A Goal of Writing

Writing can be hard 
But it's also fulfilling 
When things work out well.
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Urban, by Eric Smith

29/10/2014

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You've seen the city 
Both mouths open like women in peep shows 
One eye swollen shut 
Receding hairline blown open in the wind 
Wino puking in the winter alley or 
Tawdry depot salle de bain 

Handsome jeweled booted 
Lady you'd like to make 
Plucks Cosmo from the rack 
Swept away in crowd current 

Buses belching, swing around corners 
Cabs hunt and peck amid motor cycle snarl 
A drunk reels, falls to the 
Pigeon-shit-stained sidewalk 
Three races of man course about him 

Saturday morning 
Busman’s holiday for the dissolute 
Insane mutter to themselves 
Bums stumble for contact with the soft touch
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To A New Grandparent, by Eric Smith

27/10/2014

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Grandparents know much of life 
Where they came from 
Who they've become 
They’ve failed and succeeded in the 
Irregular rhythms of existence 
And have helped and watched their 
Children struggle and grow in a world 
Far more complex than their own 
But the new grandchild is a curious creation 
A baby with a poker face 
And to the grandparent the cards clutched 
In the tiny fingers hold pure potential 
At this moment the grandparent's life 
For ill or good makes sense 
And the future is secure
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Emma Baird's Entry For The 2014 Haiku Of The Year Non-Competition, by Emma Baird

27/10/2014

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I had never heard
Of Haiku and now I have found out about it
Isn't the FFF group interesting?
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Pointless Haiku, by Gordon Lawrie

26/10/2014

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Haikus are goods things
To write if you've a subject
But sadly I don't
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Gordon Lawrie's Entry For 2014 Haiku Of The Year Non-Competion, by Gordon Lawrie

26/10/2014

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I've not won a thing
My work is undiscovered –
There's always next year.
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Gone, by Eric Smith

26/10/2014

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Gone the raucous camaraderie of youth 
Gone the long gay empty profligate hours 
Gone the bold blithe certainty that life outlasts possessions 
Gone the memory that remembers all 
Gone the endless golden years ahead 
Now lying behind 
Cherished or rued 
But gone
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    Poetry

    This is the section where fiction prose becomes something else. We still expect the poems to be short, though – sonnets, perhaps, or around that length at the very most.

    Poems submitted should be
    no longer than 160 words
    and contain
    no more than 16 lines.

    100 words remains the approximate target...

    AND SO THEREFORE:
    We have decided
    We really don't like haikus
    They're not proper verse.


    Please submit using the Poetry Submissions Page.


    Please feel free to comment (nicely!) on any poems – writers appreciate it.
    Just at the moment, though, we're moderating some of them so there might be a slight delat before they appear.

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