highway parts landscape;
butterflies jink and loiter
as cars speed through.
Two Ways to Go [Haiku]
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Nomad [Free Verse]
One who doesn't feel
a lot at home anywhere
Begins to feel a little
at home everywhere.
He sees not strangeness
in strangers --
No more than he sees
in himself.
Any one place is not
greater nor lesser
than anywhere else.
Lands of gold and riches
are as likely devoid of
authenticity - of soul -
as impoverished places
are dripping with it.
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Stony Ground [Haiku]
wildflowers bloom
-- sheltered by boulders --
on stony ground.
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Daisy Waves [Haiku]
ox-eye daisies
ripple in the wind, or
when tousled by hand.
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Blossom Blush [Haiku]
white blossom clusters —
Cherry trees of Early Spring:
some blooms blush, some not.
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Long Live Bonsai [Senryū]
the bonsai tree
isn't a BANZAI! tree,
yet looks 10,000.
NOTE: “Bonsai” [盆栽] means “potted plant.” “Banzai” [万歳] means “10,000 years,” (in the manner of “long live the king.”)
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A Sun Within [Haiku]
Mountain Mist [Haiku]
hot summer day,
sitting downwind of cascade:
misted by spatter.
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PROMPT: Tattoo
I would not like a tattoo.
I would not like one - old or new.
I wouldn't like one in a Zoo.
I wouldn't like one in a canoe.
I would not like one,
Ham though I am,
I would not like any body-spam.
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Chasing Grandeur [Free Verse]
I saw the mountaintop,
but by the time I climbed
the mountain,
I was in the clouds and
could not see back to
where I'd been.
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