red leaves, lit by the late-day sun, flare orange
Autumn Red [Haiku]
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Autumnal Reverie [Tanka]
wet yellow leaves stuck to a rain-slick headstone, and i'm in a land not of tropical monsoons, but which knows autumn
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In Praise of Diogenes the Cynic [Free Verse]
Owning only a cloak, staff, and satchel, he broke his bowl after seeing a child drink from cupped hands, feeling the dunce for being out-simplified by a mere child. When pirates, eager to sell him off, asked what skill he had, he said, "Governing men. "If you find someone interested in buying a master, I'm your man." He couldn't be driven away with a stick, much as the downright-dog, Antisthenes, tried. He was expert at adulterating the currency - literally and figuratively. When Alexander the Great offered him whatever he wished, A sunbathing Diogenes replied, "Stand out of my sunlight." I fear they don't make 'em like that anymore.
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Samsara & Nirvana [Tanka]
samsara is seeing a snake in an acacia pod; nirvana is realizing there never was a snake
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Puppy Nook [Haiku]
Echoed Mountains [Haiku]
rocky shoulders
peek out from behind green hills
in a ghostly haze
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Cloud Moat [Haiku]
Banyan Trees [Haiku]
Stonemason [Haiku]
tap-tap-tapping, the stonemason's chisel; timbre change...[hush]
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Manila Limerick
There was a grumpy man of Manila who didn't care the slightest scintilla. He'd lay on the horn - even on Sunday morn. When the sign failed, the Church hired a guerilla.
