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  Nov 2023 Joseph Reilly
Amanda Miller
The moon shines a cool blue tonight
as we entwine our fingers, laying on the baseball field
beneath diamond heavens. We lie
in silence, in the moments when the Universe reveals
itself, and contemplate the distances between one celestial body to
another, the space between
us growing as I turn south
to find Orion while you seek Cassiopeia in the north.

Shooting stars cross the sky, and we wish separately on dead
stars and dead dreams, lights already grown red and extinguished
as we whisper in the dark, passing
between phases.

And in the end we're all left searching.
Joseph Reilly Oct 2017
Godzilla still lives
Deep in our bent fantasies
AND we dare not smile

This has had a fairly interesting existence.  It started on Godzilla Haiku.  It has now been picked up on Sadanduseless.com.  At any rate, I wrote this and now it is home.
Joseph Reilly Mar 2015
There is no hope here
no one gets out alive
straight, bisexual, or queer
all must perform the dirt dive

We apparently come from nothing
and make ourselves up
as we go along    sauntering
through the tulips    draining the cup

If there is meaning here
which is far from certain
it lasts only as long as we're
on the live side of the curtain

So,

Remembered for a thousand  years
or in the oubliette next Tuesday
ask Alexander if he really cares
ask Milton"What do the snake say?"
Joseph Reilly Mar 2015
Slobbering Morons;
Imbecilic Outliers;
Republicans All
Joseph Reilly Dec 2014
Green is the color of my true love's hair,
Emerald green to match her skin.
Blue are her teeth and red her eyes,
Gray is the blood that gurgles within,
As the world on its axis
and my true love on her toes
Do spin
Joseph Reilly Dec 2014
Voracious hunger
Reptilian inclination
Cold Kirin on tap
Joseph Reilly May 2013
Cherry blossom time
thirty stories in the air
delicious people

Melted trains and tracks
resembling grilled cheese dribbling
down leathery hide

Steel Lego towers
tingling anticipation
tasty high tension
These have been salvaged from the defunct "Godzilla Haiku" site.
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