Re: Coiling Haikus

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Original poster: "Greg Leyh" <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net> 

Superb! Although technically speaking, 'coil' counts as one syllable only 
in the South.  <emote>

Screeching metal rotors
Straining to hold tungsten jewels
New stars head skyward


>Original poster: "Gregory Hunter" <ghunter31014-at-yahoo-dot-com>
>Cold, silent neon
>I am inconsolable
>Cruel E-Bay awaits
>
>Copper tube so stiff
>You mock my sweaty fingers
>Coil. Mind. Both are warped
>
>The NST which
>Seemed so lovely on E-Bay
>Arrived cold and dead
>
>Throbbing pig of iron
>Will you destroy my ballast?
>Your coils pulse with fire
>
>My E-Bay neon
>Has arrived with bushings smashed
>My tears consume me
>
>Magnet wire so fine
>More fragile than spider's web
>Insanity reigns
>
>The safety gap screams
>Urgent alarm, you risk
>All for longer sparks
>
>Sinister pole pig
>My trembling hand hovers near
>The knife switch of doom
>
>Oh fragile MOT stack
>Why do you die so quickly?
>Your cores are too small
>
>Spun toroid so smooth
>How nimbly you slip my grasp
>To kiss the hard floor
>
>
>=====
>Gregory R. Hunter
>
>http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg