i look beyond, but see only the flowers in the foreground.
Little Yellow Flowers [Haiku]
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The Fall [Lyric Poem]
Rome fell,
the Mongols & Ottomans, too.
Great powers fall
often sans much ado.
[Psst! someday yours will, too.]
They can't help but crumble;
the foundations get rot.
And there's too much weight
to bear, without spurring plots.
Plots and schemes and pandering,
all throughout the State.
Forget those Barbarians, the threat 's
inside the gates.
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Love Locks [Free Verse]
Wandering through a new city,
I come upon a bridge:
its rails loaded with locks.
They call them "love locks."
It gets me wondering how many locks
long outlived the love they memorialized?
How many were lust locks --
linked to the bridge before
the couple really knew each other's
vexing peccadillos?
How many were like ill-advised back tattoos,
a lover's name - someone one met in Vegas -
and whose name one wouldn't
otherwise remember,
were it not inked across one's spine
in a 120-point flame-festooned font?
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Scale Change [Haiku]
boulders in a pond become the stone monolith islands in a sea.
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Scrubland Hilltop [Haiku]
in the scrublands, each step raises a dust puff, but rain is coming.
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Tiny Chapel [Haiku]
a tiny chapel in the middle of nowhere -- built to last eons.
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Covert Cave [Lyric Poem]
Do you know how deep the darkness goes? No. Chiaroscuro black conceals all but what's divulged by echoes, and figments spastic minds reveal.
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City Limits [Haiku]
the city grows up and down the valley - shaped by mountains.
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Red Blossoms [Haiku]
Yin – Yang World [Haiku]
mountain morning: sun-warmed icecaps over a valley of night.
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