the monkey sage sits —
not napping, but looking so,
on the temple wall
Monkey Sage [Haiku]
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Category Archives: poem
Spider Gawker [Haiku]
an orb weaver
sets its trap by trail’s edge, &
catches one gawker
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Flash of Black [Haiku]
Imperfectly Perfect [Haiku]
a sunflower
— deformed and stunted —
still brightens my day
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Desert Rose [Haiku]
a desert rose:
its base stout & misshapen;
its blooms elegant
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Skeleton Trees [Haiku]
twisted skeletons
of once thriving trees stand
in the temple yard
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Cliff [Haiku]
Beach [Haiku]
bright beach summer.
the sand is everywhere,
and i don’t care.
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Light of the Setting Sun [Haiku]
flowers glow brightly
in the sunset’s low light,
and then go dark
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Gone to Seed [Free Verse]
abandoned farmstead -- a blip in the flat-wide spaces of the industrial-agro-manufactured prairie the barn, dilapidated the vehicles & implements, rusted weeds growing from every crack tall, blonde grass - waving like ripe wheat - stands in both front & back yards something has died on the prairie something is returning to dust & weed something is lost
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