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Pruning from 17 to 8.

My dilemma ... I must choose 8 of these:

1.

Orange streaked blue
sets south by southwest; summer's song's
now autumn's cool.

2.

Delicious, Viking, Empires.
Red balls bend tree boughs
until the cider.

3.

Spicy tropical fragrances:
sauce, pies, butter and cider
from Winter Bananas.

4.

Magpies squawk.
Reminder that what's not picked and packed,
won't waste either.

5.

Orange salty beads
wrapped in green, set on white,
an Irish sushi.

6.

Half a sucker;
white chewy slice of tentacle;
where's the other half?

7.

Yellow or red,
this tuna will not swim again,
except inside you.

8.

Go to heaven.
When you find no one's waiting,
go to hell.

9.

Silent in flight,
a great grey owl sails
across the meadow grass.

10.

As darkness unfolds,
portulaca wraps its silk around itself,
each lady alone.

11.

Bumble bees buzz;
tiny shadows flit among white clovers,
sunshine and ebony.

12.

The carpet spreads
in royal golds and purples:
knapweed and tansy.

13.

How do you buy a friend?
Wine and roses. Praise and lies.
Remorse in the end.

14.

Sunshine always cheers
the journalist, the creative writer,
the plagiarizer alike.

15.

When a cat
meows to wake me up,
punctured covers fly.

16.

Into your thoughts:
your son, your lover, my dear-john letter,
vying for room.

17.

Riding two horses.
One does not stop; one will not go.
Mirror of my indecision.

Which 8 would you choose?

Which do you consider the best and why?

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