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Poet's Row

In the town of the magician Are several stunning streets Where dwell some rowdy residents Who serve all sorts of treats Today, we'll visit Poet's Row A long and winding block And meet a few inhabitants Some wearing just one sock In the very first of houses She lives on Poet's Row Plum trees grow in her backyard And wasps you shouldn't know She writes in many different styles One day she's red, then blue Sometimes she's opalescent Depending on her view She claims to dance with chessmen When she is on their turf But she says she's most successful Finding spider webs to surf One house holds quite a tenant (Sometimes he's just a mess!) But when he speaks up with his pen No one says more with less He writes his words in bursts of light Often giving pause He'll flash across horizons A wondrous wizard of AAHs In a corner house of fine design Lives an Osopher named Phil Who speaks in "Thee's" and "Thou's" and "Those" And writes on window sills His sage advice is sorely sought He turns a seasoned phrase His words are somewhat turquoise toned His knowledge does amaze In the middle of the middle house Where the fire is most warm A Shakespearean sort of minstrel lives With a mark upon his arm He does his magic with a pen He writes in long ago And if his words turn corners rare You'll be the first to know His pentameter's iambic At times it's quite oblique He has the perfect footing For a poet so unique From somewhere way down under The house that makes no sense Where a kookaburra laughs at you While seasoning the fence Sings a jolly pilgrim poet Whose words just ebb and flow They sail around the sky awhile Then land on Poet's Row The Lady with the precious pen Writes poems by the score She tells you tales that turn your head She opens magic doors Her words are formed quite perfectly Like turnings from a lathe But given time to think of it She fashions brilliant scathe Just before the corner Lives a poet in plaid pants He says he is the king of rook You can tell that by his dance The landlord lives at the very end In what used to be a store He's proudly built up Poet's Row From what was less to more There are many more odd denizens Who live on Poet's Row We'll sort them out from time to time And watch their gardens grow

Copyright © May 2000 Gene Dixon

Additional Notes:
I offer only one clue: AAH is an acronym for "Atterberry American Haiku" You guys can sort the rest of this out yourselves. It was born during some sort of mental trapeze act that started with the eating of many strawberries - some of which just might have started to ferment! No lawsuits, please! You don't want to take me to court. Just imagine who I'd bring for my lawyer!


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