Back in the days of wooden sailing ships some unsaid words could never grace the lips: the "calms," or "doldrums," signed apocalypse. Better storm than lull end one's life of trips.
The Doldrums [Ruba’i]
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Category Archives: poem
For Those Seeking Immortality [Rondeau Triolet]
To stretch a life beyond the time of trees be ready for a glacial shift of pace. There'll be no undulation of the seas. To stretch a life beyond the time of trees, the tradeoff is what's quick will pass unseen. So, what say you, Kings of infinite space? To stretch a life beyond the time of trees be ready for a glacial shift of pace.
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Cat Conformity [Senryū]
the cat that conforms to a hollow in the wall won't conform elsewise
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Candle Flicker [Haiku]
in the dim temple, candlelight flickers, and bronze moves
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Emerson’s Wave [Free Verse]
Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.
Ralph waldo emerson, Self-reliance
Is there any angst that we will tumble off a cliff that we should have railed off long ago? -- Nuclear War -- I fear that wave has rolled onward, and we have lost that angst. Do we not fear: blast wave disintegration? fire that turns wet things -- such as ourselves -- into instant ash? clumps of hair in the hands of the neutron-cooked? If we've forgotten to fear such things, we are surely doomed.
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Autumn Breeze [Haiku]
dried plants bobble in an autumn breeze with erratic shakes
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The Bright Patch [Haiku]
sunlight fires up one patch of fall color engulfed by shadelands
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Monitor [Haiku]
monitor lizard trudges peppily for the cool morning hours
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Jo-Ha-Kyū [Free Verse]
Eye-to-Eye. circling & jockeying for position, playing with the distance through subtle shifts, then testing the distance, engaging in exchanges Thrust - Parry - Retreat - Repeat moving faster, the interval of exchanges ever shortening then -- in one instant -- it's done.
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Pumpkin Time [Haiku]
shades of orange when paired with brisk air put me in autumn mind
