I tried a little/
tenderness, like Otis said./
It worked…so now what?
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Following Otis’s Advice: Revolutionary ConTEXTing Haiku
February 16, 2011Tags:ConTEXTing Haiku, ConTEXTing Poem, ConTEXTing Poet, ConTEXTing Poetry, CyranoWriter, haiku, it worked, Kuhns, Otis Redding, poems, poet David Kuhns, Poetry, R&B, revolutionary contexting Haiku, Revolutionary ConTEXTing Poetry, revolutionary poetry, soul, text message poetry, text messages, try a little tenderness, What is a "conTEXTing poem"?, www.cyranowriter.com
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Unrequited Pathétique: Romantic ConTEXTing Haiku
June 21, 2010Back in the late 70’s I wrote a stanza to the Peaches & Herb song “Reunited” called “Unrequited”:
“Unrequited and it feels so bad./
Unrequited and it’s drivin’ me mad./
She’s the number one fan/
of another man./
Although my love’s excited/
it’s still unrequited yeah, yeah…”
Weirdly, those same feelings (not about the same woman!)(B’s happily married, and probably never even knew … ) have surfaced again recently, and I can’t get my old verse out of my head.
So I wrote this:
It feels pathetic/
to care unrequitedly./
Yet I still can’t stop.
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