the sleeping cat yanks its head up to see what fell & why, and then goes back to sleep -- master slumberer at work
The Sleeping Cat [Tanka]
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Category Archives: poem
Field of Flames [Haiku]
row on row of flames lick and shimmer, as minds attempt stillness
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Sunrise Over the Mountain [Free Verse]
sunlight pours over the mountain, cascading into the valley, drawing all eyes into its blinding whiteness too much light enters my eye just as too much information, sometimes, enters my mind and, yet, i peer through the searing pain - just for the view
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Fungi Propinquity [Free Verse]
two tender, little mushrooms stand amid a mossy expanse i'm moved by their intimate proximity though i don't know it to be anything other than a random molecular fact, and yet it speaks to me, and i feel proximity & distance all the more intensely
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Red Rhododendron [Haiku]
red rhododendrons
at peak vitality
will be brown next week
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Stinkhorn [Haiku]
May Orchids [Tanka]
tiny white orchids hug tree trunks & branches, hiding out of sight -- except those at valley's edge, broadcasting their time is short
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Sikkim Rose [Haiku]
a pink rose stands tall in a Sikkimese garden -- mountain mimic
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True Bamboo [Haiku]
bamboo painted against white clouds is betrayed by a breeze
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Prek Chu [Haiku]
soft, shrubby shoulders line Prek Chu's winding way of smooth, white boulders
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