city landscapers
find year-round blooms for planters,
but I'll await
the wildflowers that grow
way up on the hillside.
False Heralds [Tanka]
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Martian Mindscape [Free Verse]
The light of day's end
brings out the sandy
grit of the arid
landscape.
The light of day's end
matches & compounds
the color of the
desiccated vegetation.
The light of day's end
turns the world
into someplace new --
somewhere I've never
been before.
My body knows this is
nothing like Mars;
my mind does not.
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Gray Beard [Haiku]
Spanish Moss drapes
over Winter's bare branches
like a gray beard.
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Stump Gator [Kyōka]
Gator rests on stump.
but my mind cannot rest.
it's not "gator"
and "stump" in the same place,
but in the same sentence.
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Common Box Turtle [Lyric Poem]
"The race is to steady turtles!" --
Even if the race has hurdles?
Even with its great longevity
it'll never have lift or levity
to finish before life runs out.
Hold off with race applications.
Is racer your ideal vocation?
I don't mean to be Sower of doubt,
but think speed isn't what you're about,
and that you'd make a fine doorstop.
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River Mind [Haiku]
the river widens,
slows / stopping, in places;
so goes my mind.
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Raccoon [Lyric Poem]
Looking like a masked bandito,
Raccoon dunks expired burrito.
It dips it not to get it clean
but to flavor it: Swamp Latrine.
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Long Days Inside Short Days [Senryū]
the grain is ripe.
the days are short.
the farmer, weary.
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A Walk in Winter Woods [Free Verse]
In Winter,
when blue sky shows
between the twiggy,
bare branches,
the forest is not so
claustrophobic,
but sound and wind,
alike,
carry through.
A mind can roam
between the bracing
breezes.
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A Hint of Green [Haiku]
little green sprouts,
the only verdant hue:
barren Winter woods.
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