Ah, so nice to be Tamed --
Never again the same.
What style of Wild do you
Think one could retain?
Being tamed would just be aces,
If one could keep some Wild, in traces.
Tamed (Lyric Poem]
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Note to Self [Lyric Poem]
Allow me to make a
Socratic suggestion:
That you pursue the lowly
Art of the question.
Showing you love knowing
More than you love learning
Shows only that you're not
Discerning, and lack requisite
Yearning to find the Truth.
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“Success is counted sweetest” (112) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]
Sucess is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear of victory
As he defeated -- dying --
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!
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Impromptu [Haiku]
impromptu stream
flows an uncut course
from Spring spillage.
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Painted Hills [Haiku]
after harvest,
farmers burn off stalks:
distant painted hills.
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“If thou must love me” [Sonnet 14] by Elizabet Barrett Browning [w/ Audio]
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say,
"I love her for her smile -- her look -- her way
Of speaking gently, -- for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day" --
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee -- and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry:
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
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Urban Monkey [Haiku]
urban monkey stops
& turns on an urban vine --
nary a tremor.
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Ducks [Haiku]
as the pond duck
slips & glides through water,
the shore duck is still.
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“Raven at Dusk” by Matsuo Bashō [w/ Audio]
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