autumn breezes
send dry leaves tumbling, but for
one heavy rebel.
Heavy Rebel [Haiku]
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“Sonnets from the Portuguese 43” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning [w/ Audio]
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life, and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
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White-Out [Free Verse]
snow falls
all night long,
silently piling.
i awaken
to a place
unrecognizable
as the one
in which i took to slumber:
the world's detail erased...
temporarily.
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Marching Macaques [Haiku]
macaques on the march:
lockstep / shoulder-to-shoulder;
a crash in the trees.
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“Bright Star” by John Keats [w/ Audio]
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art --
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors --
No -- yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever -- or else swoon to death.
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Dramatic Entrance [Haiku]
an egret flares
to a dramatic landing
in a sunny grass patch.
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Muscular [Haiku]
a muscular tree
poses with limbs outstretched;
shrubs are unimpressed.
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Braided Roots [Haiku]
twisted root piles
stretch across the walkway,
reaching like amoeba.
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Blue Water [Haiku]
deep in winter,
the blue water makes it
Caribbean summer.
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Yin & Yang [Haiku]
the sunny side
of the mountain falls into
a cloud’s shadow.
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