In response to Colleen Chesebro’s weekly call for entries to her Poetry Challenge. This is a Haiga, which incorporates as image with a senryu or haiku. Words I choose to use” DREAMS and MAGIC.
Text and photograph are personal property of Annette Rochelle Aben
Pretending
Gussied in sparkles
Feathered shoes
Neon nails
Twas magical amusement
For a five year old
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synonyms only for the words HOBBY and PLAY
this is a Shadorma (26 syllables 3/5/3/3/7/5
She commands the crowd
Blending more bounce to the ounce
With a golden voice
She performs those risqué tunes
Shaking her ample booty
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Her
Greatest
Claim to shame
Was when she found
Her skirt tucked into
Her pantyhose one day
The dilemma was diffused
By her spirited twerking
As she made her way through the crowd
Who found themselves trapped into watching
As her buns jiggled through the restaurant
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At
First, she
Thought too much
About other’s
Opinions of her
It meant the world to
Be liked in spite of flaws
Then, one day, she realized
Everyone had flaws of their own
There was plenty to like about them
She learned how not to care what other’s thought
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Lackadaisical
Attitude towards the new job
Was not received well
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The
Neighbors
Locked their doors
They could feel the
Disturbance growing
Children everywhere froze
Staring at their plates blankly
It was a fate far worse than death
Strapped in high chairs, there was no escape
Mothers made them eat their vegetables
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