the snake feels my footfalls through its belly, and i, too, feel its movement in my belly
Belly Wisdom [Kyōka]
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Category Archives: Kyōka
Hawk Kyōka
I watch the hawk as it sits, watching me It turns away first, knowing I can't reach it nor see it as it sees me
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POEM: Humbling Rest [PoMo Day 12 – Kyōka]
panting, i sit on a rock, beside the trail, watching porters pass loaded with logs and plywood -- followed by cows, and goats, and...
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A Kyōka on Uninhabitable Islands
Three Kyōka of Animal Aggression
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three monkeys
look down from a high branch;
one throws a pit;
a tourist dodges left,
right into the pit’s path
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a goose struts,
then wheels about – wings flaring –
Karate Kid,
but standing on both legs —
feint with foot, jab with beak
III
a llama
spits in some poor girl’s face
as if she
were Hitler or Kim Jong-Un
classy, Llama, real classy
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Three Ugly Kyōka
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a gnarled branch
twists its sinewy limb
from a crag;
its grotesque beauty
reminds me of me
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reflections
on the rice paddies
show the sky
in an angry gray,
but dampen its scowl
III
glacier melt
leaves a great scar
gouged in the earth;
the gray and brown wound
looks like man’s doing
Tiger Riding for Beginners 