Five Poems

Hello friends,

Five lipogrammatic haiku this week…. Enjoy! (And if you do, please consider supporting my work by purchasing my latest book The Robots of Babylon.)

These first three poems are typewriter-lipograms: The first uses only those letters on the top row of a qwerty keyboard. The second haiku uses the 13 leftmost letters on a qwerty keyboard (q, w, e, r, t, a, s, d, f, z, x, c, and v), and the third uses the 13 rightmost (y, u, i, o, p, g, h, j, k, l, b, n, and m).

TYPEWRITER (Top Row)
Typewriter. Top row.
Write your poetry or quote.
Tier your repertoire.
 
TYPEWRITER (Left Side)
Draft a severe verse.
Draw a reader. Weave a craft.
See fetters free art.
  
TYPEWRITER (Right Side)
Joy, in looping ink,
lining my obliging book....
Bibliophily.

The haiku "Even Combination" uses only those letters found on the even numbers of a standard phone dial, while its counterpart, "Odd Conversation", uses only those letters found on odd numbers.

EVEN COMBINATION
Thumb, touch a button.
Motion a combination:
communication.
  
ODD CONVERSATION
We press speedy keys.
We express, else we defer.
Freely, we reply....