body in the temple yard;
mind on distant mountains.
Bifurcated [Haiku]
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Category Archives: poem
“Wine Spring” by Pan Lang [w/ Audio]
I remember viewing the West Lake
While leaning on a pagoda rail.
The boats all clustered in threes or twos.
The islets under deep Autumn blues.
Flute song arose from among the cattails.
And a line of white birds - overhead - sailed.
I planned to fix my old fishing pole,
but clouds on water had my mind & soul.
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Yin / Yang [Haiku]
“The Bungler” by Amy Lowell [w/ Audio]
You glow in my heart
Like the flames of uncounted candles.
But when I go to warm my hands,
My clumsiness overturns the light,
And then I stumble
Against the tables and chairs.
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Winter Afternoon [Haiku]
“The Wind Shifts” by Wallace Stevens [w/ Audio]
This is how the wind shifts:
Like the thoughts of an old human,
Who still thinks eagerly
And despairingly.
The wind shifts like this:
Like a human without illusions,
Who still feels irrational things within her.
The wind shifts like this:
Like humans approaching proudly,
Like humans approaching angrily.
This is how the wind shifts:
Like a human, heavy and heavy,
Who does not care.
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Still Waters [Haiku]
Winter morn:
still waters reflect each twig
of bare trees.
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“In a Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound [w/ Audio]
The apparition of these faces in a crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
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