Fictional cities pile upon each other, spreading like blood puddles until they spill into yet others at their amorphous edges. And distinction is lost -- homogeneity wins -- but that lysergic sadness remains.
Many Worlds [Free Verse]
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Category Archives: Poetry
Late Day Sun [Haiku]
late day sunlight fires the yellow temple top while shadows harden
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Westward Run [Free Verse]
Put the sun at your back and run headlong toward the darkness. Killing days at record speed, leaning into the terminus, and you wake up in the light and prepare for another westward run.
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Stowaway [Limerick]
There once was a mischievous macaque with a knack for invading knapsacks. When a zipper stuck, 'twas his terrible luck to get locked in a trunk & run out of snacks.
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Quick Peek [KyÅka]
a weaver pokes its head from the nest, looks both ways, & decides to stay in. i know the feeling.
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Hyderabadi Limerick
There was a plump man of Hyderabad who was known to be quite a tightwad, but he ate his biryani and never was scrawny. He had a Hyderabadi biryani bod-y.
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Mind in the Cloud [Limerick]
There was a man who moved into the Cloud, being the first machine-mind, he was quite proud. Until someone tripped, and his switch was flipped. "Tape that cord down, for cryin' out loud!"
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Spawning Clouds [Haiku]
clouds rise like smoke from turbulent cascades -- ghosts ascending
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Sunset Waters [Haiku]
jagged silver stripes shine in the flooded jungle at sunset
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Flood [Haiku]
the river sprawls, overrunning its banks: forest, now bayou
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