a skipper sits on a bent grass blade; then leaves. the blade stays bent.
Bent Blade [Haiku]
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Summer Sun [Haiku]
Suspect Alterations [Common Meter]
To say you love, but require change
is so deeply fishy.
To mold the nature of your love
as if her soul were squishy.
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What Lurks Below? [Lyric Poem]
I'm swimming in the lake -
miles from one and all,
feeling peace and calm - when
the monster comes to call.
What could drag me under?
I'll never, ever know.
Some will always wonder
what caused the undertow.
The lake is surface calm,
and should be at its depths,
but in its muck lie bones
of those pulled under breath.
Some will swim tomorrow,
and in the days to come.
Most will come and go,
and just feel blissful numb.
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Midnight Metropole [Free Verse]
Trains are done running.
Shops are shuttered,
except in the red-light districts
where the neon circuits burn.
Food carts are set up
under streetlamps,
sending out plumes of
fried food & grilled meat aroma.
Plumes meant to catch drunken strollers
looking for an affordable bad idea.
Tonight, the city accommodates all,
finding a bad idea to
fit each price range.
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Second-Order Harmony [Haiku]
i watch surfers watch the waves, attuning to their attunement.
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Rock Spires [Haiku]
Whitman’s Eye [Free Verse]
Walt Whitman saw the world
with its ubiquitous beauty
laid bare.
He saw it in dock workers
& painted ladies &
swimmers & walkers &
Presidents & paupers.
He saw it in every hue &
sinew, and danced it into hymns.
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Fool’s Wisdom [Free Verse]
license to speak
is
license to think.
the jester can say,
apparently in jest,
what he feels to be real,
and, if he does so with
sufficient linguistic dexterity
to not be murdered by the monarch,
he has fool's wisdom.
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Tiny Fungi [Haiku]
a tiny mushroom grows from a tiny twig, dropping countless spores
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