the fish drifts - barely: then, with a snap of its tail, it darts to the depths.
Drift & Dart [Haiku]
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Masquerade [Lyric Poem]
Welcome to the masquerade!
It is your home from now on.
The you you were will soon fade
as you play out the long con.
Welcome to the masquerade!
Where all faces are untrue.
We are just the roles we've played,
not the selves we never knew.
Welcome to the masquerade!
Do you know just who I am?
I'm only what I've conveyed.
It's the "real me" that's a sham!
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Ripples [Haiku]
ripples on a pond:
the day seems still & windless,
but, somewhere, air moves.
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Deceptive Dragonfly [Haiku]
a still dragonfly
looks perched & ready,
but then falls dead.
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Unbudged [Haiku]
moss-covered limbs break the water's surface, unmoved by the flow.
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Not Waving; Not Drowning [Haiku]
among detritus,
an arm breaches the surface:
not waving / not drowning.
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Chaotic Fall [Haiku]
rainy autumn day: wet leaves drop heavily as a lazy mob.
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Li Bai [Lyric Poem]
Li Bai fills his cup; Li Bai loves his wine; Li Bai sits in moonlight, staring at the sky.
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Sole Connection [Free Verse]
The mountain
was so long ago.
Yet, I feel its pulse
throbbing under foot --
into my ever-loving sole.
[You thought I was going to say:
"everlasting soul," didn't you?
Do you think my soles
inconsequential in comparison
to my soul?]
Nothing is firmer or finer
than the point at which
I touch (& know) the earth,
than the point which
presses the real,
and, thus, by which I have
evidence that I live.
[The ghost feels nothing in its soles --
if such a being exists.]
These lowly old soles connect me
to all that is, was, and ever shall be.
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Bodhi Tree [Free Verse]
How to pick a tree
that one can be resigned
to sit under until
Enlightenment?
If the choice is hard,
you are not ready.
If the choice is easy,
you are not ready.
If there is no choice,
perhaps, you're ready.
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