Stone Soup Croutons, 12-18-24: Some Things Can't Be Held in Haiku

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions selected from Stone Soup Poetry's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here.

 

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At long last, BeYouT featured at Stone Soup, and it was worth the wait. I'm sorry I left my mic on for part of the feature and didn't realize it. 

 

At least I muted jist in time fro the strong finish, which was a tribute to LUCCI.

 

It made me really want to try with this poem. I thank BeYouT and Glen for that.

Thanks for reading.

Some Things Can't Be Held in Haiku

Courts 

declare Just 

Say So clause.

Santa
can't arrive

fast enough. 

Molasses

speed stops

in winter. 

Alphabet Street

about to be

outlawed

because 

the alphabet

hidden somewhere.

Defense leagues

always have

best offense.

Wake up and

find your 

skull missing.

People in 

isolation laugh

ready for war.

Orwell prays

the chickens 

to rise against.

Hope becomes

forbidden word

for those that do.

Winners 

among losers

keep ridin,

 

as each scandal

added to ruler's

curriculum vitae.

 

We'll be singing soon

but never because

we will all survive.

 

We won't in fact 

all survive what's coming

and maybe we're not meant to.

 

That's why we will sing joy

for everyone who's hurt us

and those few who have healed us

 

Especially this moment

when we be could be weeks away

to being finally gone. 

 

 

Special thanks to Ricard Spisak,Rita Rusty Rose, Nike Truth, Mark States, Jan Rowe, Rich Boucher, Robert Fleming, Bil Lewis, Jeff Taylor, Bob Reeves, Jon Wesick, James Van Looy and BeYouT.