white silk-cotton tree,
sinuously sprawling —-
chaining earth to sky.
World Tree [Haiku]
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Bamboo Thicket [Haiku]
a copse of bamboo
shades the mossy creek rocks,
deepening their green.
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Steam Treatment [Haiku]
the tree that reaches
over the hot spring-fed pond
thrives on steam treatment.
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Happy Hour [Lyric Poem]
The valley stretches in such a way
that it gets sun but one hour a day.
That Happy Hour when the sun aligns
upon dewy grass and deep green pines.
The local villagers, they all know
when they should come and when they should go.
But that Happy Hour is not for either.
It's to face the sun and take a breather.
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Fluid Stillness [Haiku]
the flower bobs
on its long, stiff stem.
the sage is unmoved.
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Pollinator [Haiku]
the bee wallows
in pollen like a drunk
sprawls on a bar’s floor.
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A Close & Colorless Sea [Free Verse]
The ocean vast
closes in.
Clouds drop.
If the horizon still exists,
it's behind an approaching
wall of gray.
Whatever is closing down
the world has also
drained it of color.
The shadows are black.
The sea foam is white.
Everything else is
some dim, earthy tone.
The sea may have retained
a hint of green or blue,
but it's hard to tell --
so darkened &
gray-infused
are the waters.
I fear the world may shrink
to a dot, like an old timey TV
snapped off, a dot that's
bright white but cold.
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Winter Clouds [Haiku]
winter clouds:
will they / won't they rain? or snow?
or just menace?
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Moody Sunflower [Haiku]
the sunflower
that bows its head in the sun
feels pensive.
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Bonsai Bluff [Free Verse]
green-topped granite.
a gnarled evergreen
clings to the side --
clings without clinging,
effortlessly jutting out
over the chasm
to feel the sun & wind.
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