Writing poetry –
In a different English –
Than I had been taught –
One not acceptable for
Anything except poetry
03.15.21 – 06.20.21
Rejected Poem X010
Is cleaning just transferring –
Dirtiness from one
Place to another?
03.13.21 – 03.26.21
Running Poem R090
Haiku composed on the run
Are they as moving
As those writ while still?
02.28.21 – 03.13.21
Rejected Poem X008
Is breakfast about fast break
Or breaking the fast
From the night before?
03.13.21
Rejected Poem X007
Which of letters S or C
In SCENT is silent?
And do either smell?
03.13.21
Rejected Poem X004
Would a truly perfect crime
Be truly perfect
If we knew of it?
03.13.21
Rejected Poem X001
Double U or double V?
Which one should it be?
Can U see my point?
03.12.21
Tanka T156
Love, fear, universe –
Happiness, sadness, friendship –
Imagination –
What are some words worth at least
A thousand pictures to you?
10.31.20
Running Poem R084
What’s the value of
A word in pictures
On average would you say?
10.31.20
COVIDTRY Poem 01
Can the novel Coronavirus –
Be made into –
A novelette Coronavirus?
It seemed whomever
Called the Coronavirus “novel” –
Gave it a far more apt name
Than he could have imagined –
Given the long and complex stories
It’s generating around the world
03.18.20
Harbourwalk Poem W408
What’s the opposite –
Of the term “vanishing point”?
An “appearing point”?
Or maybe a “Jesus” point?
Or how’s about a “Rome” point?
10.28.19
Minh Tan's Old Poetry 