#knowledge-teaching

"Poetry in a Bottle [10w] If you could bottle poetry you'd have one addictive drink."

"Buddha (Haiku) Buddha, Enlightened,I rub your belly to blessmy Lotto ticket."

"Grandma's Advice on Ambition "Children, if you aim for the stars you'll be impaled by small meteorites and become toast."

"The AP Stylebook is Useless {Couplet} I can't abbreviate abbreviation nor know how to initialize an acronym,I can find the contraction for contraction nor the précis for a homonym."

"Ars Poetica: Write Poetry on a Black Slate Poetry should be written on a black slate of imagination,the poet artfully allowing images to emerge from the dark."

"Sometimes it's Love and Sometimes the... [10w] ...tingling sensation of excitement, happiness, and nervousnessis jock itch."

"Committees [10w] A committee sits in a rectangle and talks in circles."

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

"What Children See [10w] "A spider is an octopus who lives in the desert."

"Natural Born Poets vs. Made Poets A natural born poet sees the future of poetry.A made poet clumsily imitates his vision."

"Tonight is For the Dying I've seen it grow dark ten-thousand times, yet never once mourned the loss of light, until tonight. Tonight I'm dying, dying, dying; before morn I may be ash in an urn, I know the light will return, maybe keeping ablaze its promise to others. Maybe not.If I had my druthers, the others would bedying, dying, dying, too,tonight."

"Self-Contempt [10w] Self-contempt is calling yourself collect and refusing to accept the charges."

"Q & A The illness of our time is not that we lack for answers;man's tragedy is that we've forgotten the important questions."

"Alone [10w] Alone in bed because of three wordsI hadn't said."

"Siesta Mud tracked from the rice fields blazon a pathFrom kitchen to cellar escaping noon’s wrath.A quiet siesta to break the ordealOf scything and sifting and spinning the wheel.Half a dream later he returns to the fieldTo seeding earth’s furrows. massaging its yield.And when Sun descends gravely back to her tombHe tracks back to the kitchen, the cellar, his room."

"The Sound of Killing [10w] + [10w] A doe, a deer, a femaledeerin my headlights.A doe, a deer, a femaledeeron my sunroof."

"Plant vs. Harvest [10w] Any fool can harvest but it takes true skill to plant."

"Marriage Advice [10w] Marry a man above youand a woman beneath you."

"Styx Haiku Boatman refusesto paddle me down the Styx.'No carry-on baggage."

"Entrepreneurs [10w] A man should be judged by the companyhe sells."