on a green hillside stands a line of dead trees, looking like driftwood
Misplaced Driftwood [Haiku]
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Category Archives: Poetry
Fleeting Agoraphobia [Poem]
the world beyond my window seems so very far away like looking from a spacecraft at a dim and foggy day
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Alone in a Crowd [Couplets]
He sits alone. His barstool straight, it faces forward - not askew. The room is full, the music loud. He stares through his half-empty brew. He's oblivious to all else -- all alone in the human zoo.
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Himalayan Oasis [Haiku]
on the arid steppe sits a green oasis - patchwork fields
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Gompa [Haiku]
mountain Gompa, fused to the mountainside as if carved from rock
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Those Who Bled for the City [Free Verse]
blood runs to the gutters, flowing and whirling, a sluicing pink juice that circles and sloshes down the drain most did not feel the missing blood, but it came from each and every one of them - the locals, the exiled, the travelers, and the ne'er-do-wells - all bled into the city, and something grew from that protein slurry most contributed only drips & drops, but some hemorrhaged, giving their liquid selves for something they couldn't anticipate
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Mekong Canoe [Haiku]
the tilting boat slips the nipa labyrinth with silent ease
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Pregnant Pause [Kyōka]
breathes in - pauses; the expected words do not come; that rare instance when mental filters work
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Blue [Haiku]
the boat sits as if the scene were painted in shades of blue
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