Full circle. A poem By Charles I am neither indigenous Nor native of this land. This land we call Oklahoma. My forefathers left these low rolling hills Of parched red dirt. Way back when Red dirt bellowed as a streaming river in the air. Leaving Forefathers and mothers traveling away from this dryContinue reading “Poetry”
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OU Moo GOO Gui Pan
Okie Haiku By Songsing Chu The river of red The border it Makes Splits UT From OU
Haiku in the Rose Bowl.
Okie Haiku Skin of striped. End toe kicks. Turf striped with numerals. Fast yards run. Zone spiked. Arms in sky. By Chok Ayerioshi 4/25/23
Take me for a ride baby.
Lover’s lament. By C. Ayers Oh, so alluring she was. Her shape, her style, and Just the sexy purring sound she makes draws me closer and closer to her shapely body. How will I ever explain this To my wife. If I’m seen with this Most bewitching Beauty, my wife will Consider Leaving me forContinue reading “Take me for a ride baby.”
Me write Haiku. Waa Hoo!
Okie Haiku. Meadow Metaphorizes by Chuck Okeeyama Stepping towards a way. Step over. Not to step. Not at all to meadow oozes of brown. To misstepping sandals will stick. Odormorphness. January, 2023
The Okie fashion runway.
Okie Haiku. Denim bib with straps A uniform make. With toes in steel. Laboring and sitting on pew.
A poem from the Red Dirt Plaines.
Okie Poetry This sure am not Hollywood Nineteen forty-one was the year Carl, Sr. and his bashful bride Left the parched and dry farm. They arrived in the coast to the west with two Toddlers in tow. Carl, Jr. and Peggy Sue. The four of them fresh off The Route some called 66. One man’sContinue reading “A poem from the Red Dirt Plaines.”
The hidden refuge for Okie meditation.
Okie Haiku. The house of The outside. Hole most deep. Tissues of Sears. Charles
The little red signs that made you smile. For at least a mile.
Roadside Poetry (updated) The little red sequential fencepost signs sponsored by Burma Shave cream with clever and whimsical rhymes out on the pre-interstate highways of mid-century America. In her room Tilting a broom Learning nuclear physics Watching on Zoom. BURMA SHAVE There would be four or five one by three-foot signs posted off the highwayContinue reading “The little red signs that made you smile. For at least a mile.”
Okie Haiku: No moo on your shoe.
Okie Haiku Where you step In the yard of bovine Is not where you want to be