My desk is by the window covered with cat hair A short leg on my chair makes it wobble when I sit They offer me no hints, no answers, no this is it So I go to check the frig, but find there only air Everywhere I ride my bike with two flat tires To […]
And will the savage songs of war never end Replaced by the simple, sweet songs of peace How can we ever forever our loved-ones send When we know they feed the slavering beast Why don’t we wonder why we never grow sane When the best and the brightest are sent to die Why do […]
Why then must poetry’s meaning be couched Like the imagined sea-sound heard in a shell May fleeting beauty, convoluted truth be vouched Said simply and offered crystal-clear from a well Will it help if I use night to presage age or death Flying birds or forests standing in for nature’s glory Will unformed clay, […]
In the deepest darkest depths of night When all your thoughts shriek danger, fright When evil looms within your sight Dawn will come When wicked winter winds into your marrow bite When storm-dark clouds bring sleet and snow and ice And every day you live feels black as night Spring will come When every urge […]
What gifts given, received would within my words sing Tripping lightly from my brain, my heart, my tongue Able to express the subtle hopes of anything, everything The true name of all the life and death I live among Would my hearing need to be honed so fine I’d hear the stars in far-flung, long-past […]
To any who have wondered where I’ve been of late online (I hope there will be one or two) perhaps the following verse will explain. I have been working on other writings, though still trying to edit them into my best form. I’ve also spent some time painting digitally, while I wait for a surgically […]
Deep shining sunSea arrayed earth Cold mantle, warm life Within mountains Hidden depths Boiling fecundity Earth sky schism Union of all Apart without separation No center, no edge Universes dance, spin Alone yet unified Self contained, connected Stars firm, wandering Transient earth firm Death, life, lovers Separated by time Joined by nature A kiss, a […]
For want of a seed the shoot was lost. For want of a shoot the plant was lost. For want of a plant the flower was lost. For want of a flower the bee was lost. For want of a bee the plant was lost. For want of a plant the food was lost. For […]
Responsible, preoccupied, needs, daily duties, urges to create Atlas beneath my half sky inventing my truth in beauty before I’m late Days fast-paced, so full of shoulds and musts to meet and answer When so few seek either truth or beauty; they don’t pay the financier Is shielding the candle flame from darkness worth the […]
Triku ~ 5-7-5 ~ equals three word Haiku. I try to give them some sense or make them humorous and I think I succeeded in most cases. Here are my next seven. I hope you enjoy my word play. Indiscriminate Inconsequentially Cannibalistic Pronunciation: Denuclearization Mythological Archeology: Memorialization Figuratively Puritanism: Polarization Continuation Politically Antiglobalization Abnormality Technically […]
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