once a day
light from the setting sun gleams
off the gold Buddha,
and shines through a window
across the boulevard.
That Time of Day [Tanka]
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Category Archives: poem
Twilight River [Haiku]
Wee Hours [Free Verse]
In the wee hours,
The city becomes a blur
Of color and motion,
But the moon
Is the moon
Is the moon.
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Hills of Tranquility [Free Verse]
Stony hills
Blanketed in green;
Softened -
Yet still hard.
Silent -
Yet riotous
As wind buffets
My face when I
Speed past.
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Dragonhead [Tanka]
dragonhead
rises up out of a cloud,
over the city.
how many see the cloud,
but not the dragon?
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FIVE WISE LINES [September 2025]
The aim of introduction is to conceal a person’s identity.
George Mikes, How To Be an Alien
From the beginning our philosophers have tried to teach us how to die,
Jonathan weiner, Long for this world
and our poets have taught us that to contemplate death
is to learn to live.
Nothing is harder to see into than people’s natures.
Zhuge liang [a.k.a. Kongming], The WAy of the General
To know how to eat is to know how to live.
Auguste Escoffier
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
Mark twain
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Ripple Chaos [Haiku]
raindrops ripple paddy water;
wavelets wrap into grain stalks.
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Cascade [Haiku]
after the rains,
water cascades in ways
never seen before.
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Cloud Avalanche [Haiku]
clouds fill the valley:
a gauzy avalanche
in slow motion.
