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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
11 Sep 23
PEEPING OUT OF THE CLOSET
I asked myself if I might be gay
But I'm hetero in a queer sort of way.
I quit browsing the Littlewood's bikini page
To check out the men considered all the rage
In their tight fit Speedo swim...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
14 Aug 23
The first one is actually a pair of Haikus written to mark the anniversary of the atom bomb attacks on Japan in 1945.
1/.
Hiroshima Day
The day humanity died
Evolution fails
(Written on the 6th August, anniversary of the...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
6 Aug 23
1/.
Join the yellow side
Sith War Jedi deserters
Force is weak with us
Spoofing Star Wars where every Jedi seems to be great at the job
2/.
Ate more humble pie
Than you did, I'm down to Earth
I have no ego.
I have met...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
1 Aug 23
1/.
Aching to tell you
Not referring to windows
Pain - Have some, am one
playing on the similar spelling of pain and pane
2/.
Brittle state of mind
Emmerich disaster film
Meltdown in progress
Comparing my life's...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
29 Jul 23
1/.
Drawing the curtains
On the windows to my soul
By closing my eyes
Just a play on the cliche of the eyes being windows to the soul
2/.
My gnomes live indoors
I have no garden flowers
Still want them around
Why do you...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
21 Jul 23
1/.
"I don't like football,"
Might as well juggle my poo
Offends less people.
Some people really find me not liking football too weird to cope with
2/.
Cranium memo
Stop trying to be funny
Stick to poetry
I often use...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
20 Jul 23
Two Haiku posts in a row from me, sorry.
1/.
I don't do road trips
Just Cul-De-Sac meanders
Home In time For Tea
I alwats like adventures I can get home from afterwards
2/.
Alienated
Despite being among friends
Need books...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
19 Jul 23
Yeah, here I go again
1/.
Living the moment
As fleeting as a mayfly
I need much longer
A sense that the now is too short to get fixated on
2/.
Open mic poetry
Don't read out many Haiku
Harder to take in
Audiences tend to...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
18 Jul 23
Another five Haiku pieces for your delight and eelectation.
1/.
Phones in back pockets
Great way to get them stolen
Or crushed sitting down
I see so many people walk round with their phones jutting out of their back pockets...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
17 Jul 23
A few darker mooded ones today, which seems to happen more and more nowadays.
1/.
A bouquet of weeds
Giver expects my gratitude
Time to prune down friends
Reaction to cruelties masquerading as jokes that I'm somehow expected...
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John nyambegera
@thebos (5960)
• Kisumu, Kenya
25 Jun 23
Hello
I hope you are fine.
Today I just remembered of a story which I read on a Christians magazine which was talking about the Gospel and how we should spread it.
It was all about a young boy of 8 who always went to church...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
21 Jun 21
Interrupted
Tangent taking pedant hijacking talk,
Bullying you right off the playing field
So often that you feel he’s out to stalk
Your every attempt to socialize
Taking conversation down a new path
Just as a beaver dam...
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Stacey
@xstitcher (39015)
• Petaluma, California
19 Jun 21
What should I write?
Just a
Silly little verse?
There isn't the kind of
Talent in me to write
A sonnet--but Lord, I can use
The gift You gave to write what an
Outstanding Heavenly Father You are.
© Stacey Uffelman 6-19-21
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
30 May 21
Sulphuric Water
Acid rain, killing the trees in Finland
Needn’t bother me in England, I thought
Until I felt raindrops burning my hand .
Holes in my brolly told me I’d been caught
In much worse than the average shower.
Water of...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
8 Apr 21
Some of my Haiku - Basho was a famous Japanese Haiku writer.
1/. Reading the master
Basho, Shakespeare of Haiku
Never be that good
2/. Cancer, not Covid
Unsure which one is worse
Had the former C
3/. Eighteenth syllable
No...
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eileenleyva
@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
28 May 20
Today, I heard again that line - 'awful grace of God.' It was written by a Greek tragedian called Aeschylus. The complete line goes - "He who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
16 Mar 19
Crazy Like A What?
Who do you think you are calling crazy?
I was smart enough to catch your chickens.
Clever, crafty, cunning, cruel, but not lazy,
Mad, insane, or cuckoo. What the dickens
Possessed you to question my reason,...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
19 Jan 19
1/.
Quiet pub Thursday
Warm happy feeling inside
Bus calls last orders
2/.
Other diners choose
Better orders than I pick
I taste jealousy
3/.
All holy silence
Shattered by ring tone madness
In Pearly Gate queue
4/.
For...
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