Buddha statue: what would its reflection in my eyes look like?
Perspective Impossible [Haiku]
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Pause Cause [Haiku]
a car slows, then pulls to the shoulder: sunflower field.
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Mongeese? [Free Verse]
Mongooses or Mongeese?
My Jamaican friend says,
"It's GEESE, mahn!"
But I can't tell whether that's
a Mon-guess [or a guess, mahn!]
I'd prefer a non-guess
on the mongoose's gees-i-ness,
lest I develop lexical queasiness.
It seems like it should be mongeese,
because "mongoose" is very
much like "goose."
[As my Jamaican friend would say,
"It's jus wit the 'Mon,' mahn!"]
On the other hand, a mongoose
don't look like no goose I've
ever seen.
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Striped World [Haiku]
Autumn sun sets, painting sky & river -- all else is black.
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The Vanishing [Haiku]
fog rolls through, devouring then revealing a quaint town.
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Startle Response [Haiku]
Flawless Flower [Haiku]
there is no defect
in the sunflower that
cheers one’s spirits.
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The Futility of War [Haiku]
two young gazelles lock horns and head-wrestle, then quit and move on.
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Out of Joint [Blank Verse Sonnet]
My days are out of joint and shuffled up, and memories are pictures cast upon the floor, and rummaged through 'til chaos reigns, and I pick random recollections out of all the events ever to transpire. They seem no more my life than another's: a glance, a glimpse, a blank firing of mind, a wicked hope that truth will come to me. But all I see are monochrome mindscapes that could've been wrenched out of another mind, or made from AI's collage artistry to serve some distant master's deep wish to learn what hot-injected time does to a soul, and if shuffled scene stacks can make one whole?
Tiger Riding for Beginners 