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This past weekend we had our 2nd poetry party, and we came up with some fun, creative stuff again. Some of the more entertaining poems and creations I thought I would list here as a record of the party. As last year, we wrote some haikus, and also some collaborative free-form poems. Here are the highlights:

“Caribbean Haiku”

Sharks seek bamboo skirts

Pirate Bahama disease

Scurvy will kill you

Jamaican accents

Wish they read the nightly news

I would be amused

The train is coming

Oh shit, where is the airport?

Someone stole my bike

“Poetry”

To make the mundane classy

The pig slips on the dressing gown

Oh why must we lie when the truth lies uncovered?

There to be seen by all yet none

Love, change and society

One poet’s desire to not be outdone

The ideas are in my mind’s eye

But the words change like scrabble letters

And I can find no clear picture

I have lost interest in poetry

It is horrible

I would rather make a sandwich

Of the turkey variety

As i spread on the mayo

Inspiration arises

The love returns, the passion exists once more

I am free to create, to do what I was born for

“Cheap Wine”

I went to the grocery store – but alas!

My wallet again was only half mast

Without much money

This night could turn funny

What to fill my glass?

With not much money to spare

Do I dare go with a bottle of red?

Or do I just go home instead?

I can’t return empty-handed

Or my evening won’t be enchanted

But what luck, I’ve found the daily deal

A dollar fifty for a bottle, what a steal!

With change in my pocket

I hit the cheese market

Shelves tumble with cubes and wheels

Fontina, swiss and gruyere

Another world from the chaos of the street

Like a lost island and I a pirate fresh in plunder

Treasure in hand I turn towards the Smith’s, amidst the booming thunder