deep in the woods, a weather-beaten cabin slants slightly
Cabin [Haiku]
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Category Archives: Poetry
Hyena [Haiku]
The Emotional Beast [Free Verse]
We laud our rational side - The Thinking Man - But we're emotional beasts to the core. To use that old [and disparately applied] chestnut: Of emotions, better master than servant. Poetry is a conduit to emotional savvy. That's part of the reason Plato urged poetic restraint; he found the emotional inferior to the rational, and thought most youngsters couldn't behave responsibly in the face of poetry's emotional power. It's also where Aristotle found virtue in poetry, its ability to induce catharsis. Could they both be right?
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Autumn Red [Haiku]
Autumnal Reverie [Tanka]
wet yellow leaves stuck to a rain-slick headstone, and i'm in a land not of tropical monsoons, but which knows autumn
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In Praise of Diogenes the Cynic [Free Verse]
Owning only a cloak, staff, and satchel, he broke his bowl after seeing a child drink from cupped hands, feeling the dunce for being out-simplified by a mere child. When pirates, eager to sell him off, asked what skill he had, he said, "Governing men. "If you find someone interested in buying a master, I'm your man." He couldn't be driven away with a stick, much as the downright-dog, Antisthenes, tried. He was expert at adulterating the currency - literally and figuratively. When Alexander the Great offered him whatever he wished, A sunbathing Diogenes replied, "Stand out of my sunlight." I fear they don't make 'em like that anymore.
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Samsara & Nirvana [Tanka]
samsara is seeing a snake in an acacia pod; nirvana is realizing there never was a snake
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Puppy Nook [Haiku]
Echoed Mountains [Haiku]
rocky shoulders
peek out from behind green hills
in a ghostly haze
Tiger Riding for Beginners 