Orthodoxes And Paradoxes!

Riverway Street Parallels
Photography: Edward S. Gault

Even though this verse
Has seventeen syllables
-it is not haiku.

x

I wrote half tanka

Then wrote one half the next part

Followed by next half

And continued in this way

Until I got to the en

x

Her smile was friendly,

She looked directly through me

-speaking policy.

In Congress many years,
On the ticket of Values
-feds arrested him.

Wearing a ski mask,
He killed in the name of God
-in hopes of heaven.

Copyright 2008

One Single Impression: Paradox