ducks float
on the royal lake
in breach of edict.
Rogue Ducks [Senryū]
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Category Archives: poem
Winter Poem
Sun Bands [Haiku]
a dark cloud blocks
the Summer sunset,
but light won’t be pent.
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Poison Ivy [Lyric Poem]
Poison Ivy, I think you know
that you will always be my foe.
I can slice your vine, pal-o-mine,
and still end slathered in calamine.
Because I must haul your corpse away,
and on my gloves your oils will stay —
waiting that unexpecting day
when I scratch some tender bit.
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Bird’s Eye [Senryū]
the bird's head turns
so one eye is upon me,
something grows cold.
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FIVE WISE LINES [July 2026]
Trust in Allah, but tether your camel.
Sufi Saying
[S]ome day you will be old enough to
C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe
start reading fairy tales again.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel proust
Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Mahatma gandhi
Learn as if you were to live forever.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael,
Pablo Picasso
but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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Solid [Haiku]
at day’s end,
atop the mountain, clouds
look like snowy peaks.
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Dirt Road [Haiku]
the dust wedge
of an unseen vehicle
runs down the dirt road.
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Agent of Entropy [Senryū]
stone stacks line the trail:
a thousand hikers suppress
the urge to kick.
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Silent City [Haiku]
from mid-bridge,
above the sprawling river:
the city, silent.
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