Real Men Don't Smell Like Flowers

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real men don't smell like flowers

they are twigs and leaves

kindling

the wind

soap

clean

cotton

fresh dug earth

broken in leather

and saltwater dried to the skin!

This poem is a "double fib," if you will. It uses 8, 5 3, 2 and 1 syllables (a reverse fib) followed by 1, 2, 3, 5 and 8 (a typical fib). Submitted to Jingle's Poetry Rally! Happy Rally!

I started this poem after I wrote the June 2011 haiku "Quit Using." I didn't realize at the time that I'd end up writing a love poem to men everywhere! I hope you enjoy.

Be Love

A fib poem (American experimental haiku) using 1, 1, 2, 3, 5 and 8 syllables. Each line is the sum of the previous 2 lines (e.g., 3 + 5 = 8). Fibs begin with an unseen 0, which is why the first two lines have 1 syllable each. They follow the Fibonacci sequence in math.

Submitted to Jingle Poetry at The Gooseberry Garden! Happy Picnic!

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Be

Love

Be loved

Be ready

Grab sweet gifts of love

Be wondrously overflowing!

Perfecting Naughty

Using the three-word prompt of naughty, tactic, zenith. Submitted to Three Word Wednesday!

Perfecting Naughty

We take turns to the zenith

Uncovered tactics

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