The Ballad of the Honeysuckle (in Haiku)

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Open Poetry #13

The Ballad of the Honeysuckle (in Haiku)

Songbird
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since 1999-12-15

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Missouri

0 posted 2001-05-02 06:29 PM

Honeysuckle begs
Come find me in the thicket
Taste my nectar sweet

Pick my sweet blossoms
Inhale my sweet perfume love
Seductions painless

Take ivory blossoms
To thy lips, drinking, tasting
Intoxicating

Honeysuckle lips
Kissed with dewdrops glistening
Amid the woodlands

Honeysuckle vines
Tentacles reach and entwine
For life's purpose cling

Honeysuckle grows
As honeysuckle strangles
Silently to death

Joyce Johnson

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since 2001-03-10

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Washington State

1 posted 2001-05-02 06:49 PM

Haikus and also a beautiful full-blown poem. Joyce

Temptress

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-06-15

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Mobile, AL

2 posted 2001-05-02 08:27 PM

Beauty at its best.

I enjoyed these, and I LOVE honeysuckle!

still d-i-s-c-o-n-n-e-c-t-e-d
I am bound by this, you see...to become Night's sole mistress, and I am jealous in my endeavours for his attention.

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

3 posted 2001-05-03 07:08 AM

You have indeed captured haiku and formed it into a most beautiful ballad....well done!

Irish Rose
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4 posted 2001-05-03 07:58 AM

wasn't expecting the end, enjoyed this very much.

Kathleen Blake

"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass,
and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee

kitkat
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since 2000-01-11

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Nova Scotia

5 posted 2001-05-03 09:09 AM

I loved what you did here. The images you created, the way they all connect. Nice job

Mabel A. Dilley
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since 2001-03-17

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Seattle, WA, USA

6 posted 2001-05-03 01:38 PM

Gorgeous ballad in haiku with a devlish twist at the end, that wonderful element of surprise.

"I am not now that which I have been."

Corinne
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since 1999-10-28

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state of confusion

7 posted 2001-05-03 03:58 PM

What a surprise ending this sensuous grouping of Haiku has!

Corinne

Songbird
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since 1999-12-15

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Missouri

8 posted 2001-05-03 10:16 PM

Inspired by a true to life situation, that of the attempt of honeysuckel to kill my over 6 foot tall Gardenia tree. The poem however could have multiple meanings. Glad you all enjoyed.

Nate Dogg
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Georgia, Fulton

9 posted 2001-05-07 12:22 PM

Hmm, a beautiful and sweet poem...I enjoyed this.....peace!

Nathan

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Deep in the heart

10 posted 2001-05-07 12:24 PM

Well done. Fine senryu string. Wonderful.

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