"Amboseli offers great views of Kilimanjaro!" they said. but, for me, obstinate clouds object
Kilimanjaro Hides [Kyōka]
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Category Archives: Poetry
Limerick of the Kenyan Burglar
There was a chill burglar from Kenya who, as he worked, listened to Enya. It lulled him to sleep, a sleep far too deep. He woke up where burglars, they send ya.
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Flameless Flame [Free Verse]
walking through a darkened temple, a jagged hole perfectly aligns; the kinked white-light washing inward becomes a shimmering flame, topping a stone pillar, becoming a faux candle in my shimmering mind
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Bamboo & the Buddha [Haiku]
nestled amid bamboo, a stone Buddha sits: stone-mind / bamboo-mind
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Smoke & Fire [Common Meter]
The spastic flame that dances fast: too weird to match to drum. The teary eye strays into trance as if deadened by rum. Where will the flame transport us now that smoke has made us cry? Where will the cracking sounds take us as we turn to the sky? The moon is out and casts a glow, a glow of milky white. And each dim point of starlight burns trillions of times as bright as that feeble, little campfire that rules what I now feel: the heat, the smoke, the popping sounds that now make my head reel.
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Web of Roots [Haiku]
a web of fig roots drapes in wild tangles, & a sapling - straight & green
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Tree Nature [Haiku]
under the tree sits a potential Buddha; human mimics tree
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Prickly Pear [Haiku]
a prickly pear patch stands free of bird and beast; i wonder why?
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Fractal [Haiku]
the mountain looks like a boulder, looks like a rock,...
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Rock Agama [Tanka]
a Rock Agama peeks over a rock, stops, and tries to be inconspicuously bright orange
