upside-down bees work frenetically in the plush depths
Bees @ Work [Haiku]
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Category Archives: poem
Lake Changes [Haiku]
in summer, the tarn looks like greenish concrete, then settles to teal glass
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Echoed Buddhas [Haiku]
echoed Buddhas, each as still as the last, focus on nothing
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Blue Sky Stupa Field [Haiku]
stupas point up to the vast blue skies; nothing points back
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Giant Crepe Myrtle [Haiku]
Butterfly Paralysis [Haiku]
the butterfly
in the cool morning air
can’t flee foot thunder
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River Temple [Haiku]
monks of the temple that stands beside the river receive flow teachings
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Heat Death [Common Meter]
A timeless time will come to be, when all is uniform. And nothing 's hot & nothing 's cold, but all is just lukewarm. So thank your lucky stars you've lived in this age of bedlam: when stars can shine and buildings rise and we've cerebellums.
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Dog-Eared Daisies [Haiku]
the dog-eared daisies that stand at bamboo's base still warm the mind
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No Hanuman Span [Common Meter]
I stand before the water's edge. Thwarted, I throw a stone. For I am here and you are there, and I feel all alone. I have no friendly Hanuman to form a viaduct. I gather scraps together to see what I can construct. Maybe I'll make a raft, or some rickety, old footbridge - Anything to reduce the gulf so much as a hopeful smidge.
