#knowledge-education

"Hatred is a Simple Child Hatred is a simple child nurtured and coddled in a raging heart and then released into a crowd of innocents wearing a suicide vest."

"1953 It seems the world has gone downhill since the year Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Everest."

"Rhyme vs. Reason {Couplet} Do not try to make rhyme of reason,nor reason of rhyme;For the former's too systematic,the latter's too sublime."

"Enough [10w] Enough's the only thing most people can't get enough of."

"Humans vs. Monkeys [10w] + [10w] Baby monkeys are much more clever than a human babies.Human babies leap ahead because of their capacity for language."

"Kansas State Motto Ad astra per aspera. [9]Flat land and flatline intelligence."

"Wisconsin State Motto Forward.Leading the nation in drunk driving and Cheesehead hats."

"Informal HP Survey: Should Poetry Rhyme? O.K., readers, anybody who thinks poetry should rhymeplease tap your caneor jiggle your walker."

"Out to Lunch [10w] Behind closed doors, there's nothing we rightfully can call crazy."

"Read vs. Write If you want to know about life second hand, read;if you want to experience life directly, write."

"Family {Couplet} For my misery, family brings relief,tripling my joy, halving my grief.This aesthetic arithmetic's quite poetic,an accounting surmounting odds unsympathetic.Now there seems no hardship I cannot withstand,accompanied by my exponential, familial band."

"Reflection Upon Reflection [10w] Don't look into a mirror in rooms full of mirrors."

"New Year Resolutions I [10w] Change my voice;unclog my ears;open my heart."

"Forget [10w] {Couplet} Let's lift our goblet of regret,forgive, forsake and forget."

"In the Porn Industry [10w] Lacking a college-diploma's more than compensated by a humongous penis."

"Why Don't You Practice What You Preach [10w] The reason I teach and preach?In order to learn."

"Suicide Note [10w] "Don't ask why I committed suicide.Question why everybody doesn’t."

"Oxford, England Haiku City shrouded in fogand within the blinding mist we found each other."

"Lady Gaga Haiku A cow has a big head, deep voice, a long tongue, butLady Gaga he's not."

"What Might Have Been {Couplet} Dwell not upon what might have been,Within such idle spin, you can never win."