Beat down over a life time of
"pigs don't fly"
Truffle was determined
to at least learn to scuba dive.
But started slowly.
Author notes: WC 23 https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783914-Lucia-Heffernan-Pig-Prompt---whatever-you-t Lucia Heffernan ART
Buffy's was wearing a cute vampire costume
His entrance would have been all the more impressive
If he was a flying squirrel
Author notes: WC 22 image from Pinterest https://allpoetry.com/contest/2782839-Halloween-Squirrel--175-Words-or-Less-
When you reach that age
where "having good flow"
does not refer to great rap lines
know that you'll always have haiku
Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783909-Flow
My stubborn donkey
would not work at the windmill
so I named him xote
Now he's tilting with the best of them
Author notes: if you don't get the pun, ask me. If you do and groan, yep https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783923-The-Donkey
Speedy was surprised
by the alien
having legs, not wheels
Author notes: Robot SPD-13, also known as "Speedy", was the name of the robot in Asimov's Mercury story in I,Robot https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783817-Sci-Fi-Image-Haiku-Welcome-Contest-
mount muji’s magnificence
immortalized
in hokusai’s paintings
Author notes: Hokusai painted over 100 versions of Mt. Fuji https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783832-Haiku-Mountain
Serial killer
Double life. Would like to quit.
Maybe just one more
Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783837-Dark-or-Regular-Haiku-Contest
Quarter's earnings blown
Our investors will be pissed
Shit storm is coming
Author notes: the contest title -- Storm -- and Bad at naming made me think of this https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783818-Storm
You've had a few. Enough!
Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783831-5-words---Advice-to-someone-who-...
my virtual reality treadmill
lets me recreate
walking to school in the snow
it's uphill both ways
like back in the day
You took the road less traveled?
Has it made a difference?
Hard to prove a counterfactual
More likely you just avoided a few minutes of traffic
It's no big moral victory
It's available to anyone with Wayz
Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/poem/add?item[for_contest_id]=2783528#
the inkwell ran dry
finally switched to laptop
can now use both hands!