after harvest,
farmers burn off stalks:
distant painted hills.
Painted Hills [Haiku]
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Category Archives: poem
“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]
DAILY PHOTO: Hill Stairway
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Post Crow [Haiku]
crow on a post,
on rocky desolate ground;
waves lap ashore.
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“Second Fig” by Edna St. Vincent Millay [w/ Audio]
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
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The Slow Flow [Haiku]
teal mountain stream
flows past rock's fluid striations,
proof flow can be slow.
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Jungle [Common Meter]
They say jungles are chaotic.
I find them as silent
As the world that is aquatic...
Though no less violent.
