Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
Mark Twain
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Tag Archives: Imagination
Mystery Door [Lyric Poem]
There's something about an old wood door --
ornate (but on some humdrum street)
that makes one wonder if it's more
than its neighbors -- something offbeat:
Perhaps, a portal into Hell,
a Speakeasy of unknown vice,
a smelly cheese smuggling cartel,
a school for wizards, imprecise.
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Smash Fist [Senryū]
where hill meets clouds:
knuckles of a Hulk-like fist
spark a daydream.
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Play Mind [Common Meter]
What is this cloud above my head
on such a sunny day?
You may think it foreshadows rain.
I think that it brings play.
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PROMPT: Differently
Everything except fully autonomic bodily functions could be done differently. That’s the nature of human creativity.
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PROMPT: Play
Yes. Frenetic and chaotic creativity.
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PROMPT: Kid at Heart
Embrace play, go hog wild with imagination, and have a short memory for adversity.
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Dragonhead [Tanka]
dragonhead
rises up out of a cloud,
over the city.
how many see the cloud,
but not the dragon?
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FIVE WISE LINES [September 2025]
The aim of introduction is to conceal a person’s identity.
George Mikes, How To Be an Alien
From the beginning our philosophers have tried to teach us how to die,
Jonathan weiner, Long for this world
and our poets have taught us that to contemplate death
is to learn to live.
Nothing is harder to see into than people’s natures.
Zhuge liang [a.k.a. Kongming], The WAy of the General
To know how to eat is to know how to live.
Auguste Escoffier
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
Mark twain
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Goblin [Free Verse]
After dark —-
A city park —-
There runs the thing
That comes to life
By night.
Caged in stillness
Through sunlit hours.
Its night persona
Is blurred movement
Seen only from the
Corner of an eye.
It stays near deep shadow,
Beyond the lamp lit arcs.
Where is it?
No one knows,
But if one were to
Check the cathedral
Spire, you’d find
Only an impenetrable
Void…
until sunup.
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