blooms & berries
color the scrublands
as summer peaks.
Summer Color [Haiku]
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“Art” by Herman Melville [w/ Audio]
In placid hours well-pleased we dream
Of many a brave unbodied scheme.
But form to lend, pulsed life create,
What unlike things must meet and mate:
A flame to melt -- a wind to freeze;
Sad patience -- joyous energies;
Humility -- yet pride and scorn;
Instinct and study; love and hate;
Audacity -- reverence. These must mate,
And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart,
To wrestle with the angel -- Art.
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Everywhen, All In One Place [Haiku]
fallen leaves skitter
as grass sprouts in twined roots:
all seasons at once.
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Askew [Haiku]
askew tombstones
under a yawning tree:
a crow on its branch.
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Ordered Chaos [Haiku]
“Jade Gate Pass” by Wang Wei [w/ Audio]
Dawn rain has washed the city of its dust;
The refreshed hotel willows tremble in a gust.
My friendly advice, you dry up another glass,
You have no acquaintance beyond The Jade Gate Pass.
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Harbor Watch [Haiku]
a shrine watches
over a calm harbor as
storm winds buffet.
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Stumbling Urban [Haiku]
over a ridge,
and a sprawling city grows
into my wilderness.
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“Men Say They Know Many Things” by Henry David Thoreau [w/ Audio]
Men say they know many things;
But lo! they have taken wings, --
The arts and sciences,
And a thousand appliances;
The wind that blows
Is all that any body knows.
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Last Dance [Haiku]
tattered butterfly
comes to rest after a
spastic last dance.
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