Category Archives: poem

MEXICO LIMERICK

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Wabi Sabi [Haiku]

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Mường Hoa Valley, Sa Pa, Vietnam; An old farmhouse on the rice terraces.
rustic farmhouse,
 weatherbeaten & askew:
   no answer to knocks.

Great Mormon [Haiku]

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Great Mormon Butterfly [Papilio Memnon]
Great Mormon
 flaps its wings spastically,
  yet hovers in place.

Farmer’s Walk [Haiku]

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Taken near Cat Cat Village (Cat Cat Ban) outside Sa Pa, Vietnam. Farmer on a fallow rice terrace.
hoe on shoulder,
 farmer saunters along
  a rice terrace.

Gray [Free Verse]

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The sky is gray.
   The lake is gray.
 The city beyond is gray.

Once so big,
   The city is now small,
 And I fear fog
   Might erase it.

Lantern [Free Verse]

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The lightbulb inside
   A temple lantern
   Shines like the sun:
   Backdrop to painted 
   Branch & blossom...

But the fact that it's lit
  Means that it must be
  The moon.

That Time of Day [Tanka]

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once a day
 light from the setting sun gleams
  off the gold Buddha, 
 and shines through a window
 across the boulevard.