Morning Glories
don’t feel slighted
because they bloomed
in the shadow of
Mexican Sunflowers…
Though the humans
who otherwise might
stop to admire them
can now not be
bothered to notice them.
Flower Mind [Free Verse]
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“In a Disused Graveyard” by Robert Frost [w/ Audio]
The living come with grassy tread
To read the gravestones on the hill;
The graveyard draws the living still,
But never any more the dead.
The verses in it say and say:
'The ones who living come today
To read the stones and go away
Tomorrow dead will come to stay.'
So sure of death the marbles rhyme,
Yet can't help marking all the time
How no one dead will seem to come.
What is it men are shrinking from?
It would be easy to be clever
And tell the stones: Men hate to die
And have stopped dying now forever.
I think they would believe the lie.
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Pigeon King [Haiku]
pigeons mill about --
then one finds color
in the gray city.
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Short Days [Haiku]
winter afternoon:
light drains away before
the sun is down.
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Mid-Winter [Haiku]
mid-Winter
pretends to be Autumn:
green with leaf linger.
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“A not admitting of the wound” (1188) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]
A not admitting of the wound
Until it grew so wide
That all my Life had entered it
And there were troughs beside -
A closing of the simple lid
that opened to the sun
Until the tender Carpenter
Perpetual nail it down -
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Ice-laden [Haiku]
ice-laden trees:
frigid limbs wish to dip,
but are too stiff.
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Bifurcated [Haiku]
“Wine Spring” by Pan Lang [w/ Audio]
I remember viewing the West Lake
While leaning on a pagoda rail.
The boats all clustered in threes or twos.
The islets under deep Autumn blues.
Flute song arose from among the cattails.
And a line of white birds - overhead - sailed.
I planned to fix my old fishing pole,
but clouds on water had my mind & soul.
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