tick tick tick

the stray bull's eyes glint,
watching, heart all afflutter,
the red-frocked stunner!

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the morning after

slumped the mahout sleeps,
astride the tired elephant...
festivities done.

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drums and bugles

keep the gate closed...
ants troop dancing on its top...
rio carnival!

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hundred metres dash

rainclouds gallop high
hard i run panting breathless...
who will reach home first?

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vertigo

flowers mesmerized
by their glow aloft the trees
do have vertigo

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on the beach

nuns inhale the sun
sea-cast pearls around their feet...
oh giggling penguins!

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a white horse

froth-mouthed, a white horse
gallops up the hill...silent...
dissipating clouds.

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