subtle lean:
tree on a hill,
windswept.
Windswept [Haiku]
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Iconic [Free Verse]
Everyone gets to be a person,
Few become icons:
What is it to have a lasting
image more well-known
than one's work?
Che Guevara, Bruce Lee,
Heath Ledger's Joker --
Images you can find on
back-alley walls from Lagos
to Prague to Kochi
to Seoul to Santiago
and back again.
Seen day-after-day by people
who never saw Enter the Dragon
or read of the Cuban Revolution,
or saw Nolan's Batman Trilogy,
but they know the faces.
They have thoughts about them
-- and, sometimes, strong feelings --
just like so many people have
thoughts about Alexander the Great
based solely on his name
and a rough impression of history.
What must this be...
blessing or curse ...
if icons had some way to care?
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Stray Cat [Senryū]
lean & scratched up:
stray cat stares at a leaf
as if it's ham.
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Glazed Acorn [Haiku]
Invaders [Haiku]
Spring glade:
small patch of light blue nests
in a yellow sea.
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Redbud [Haiku]
Ivy & Stone [Free Verse]
There's something relentless
in an old stone wall...
But, also, cold and dead.
One knows it will not stand forever --
that it will go the way of
ruins, rubble, stones, and dust --
but, still, it can outstand any man.
Ivy climbs to camouflage the stone's
cruel deathlessness,
But then the ivy stands on the wall
year after year after year...
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Chill Induced Memory [Tanka]
the memory
of an outdoor cafe
at city center
comes to me out of the blue,
on a frigid Winter day.
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Ominous [Common Meter]
What lives behind that ornate door
that's carved of snakes and vines?
I see them writhe and feel a shift
in its symbols and signs.
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Play Mind [Common Meter]
What is this cloud above my head
on such a sunny day?
You may think it foreshadows rain.
I think that it brings play.
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