once a day
light from the setting sun gleams
off the gold Buddha,
and shines through a window
across the boulevard.
That Time of Day [Tanka]
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Tag Archives: poetry
Twilight River [Haiku]
Wee Hours [Free Verse]
In the wee hours,
The city becomes a blur
Of color and motion,
But the moon
Is the moon
Is the moon.
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Hills of Tranquility [Free Verse]
Stony hills
Blanketed in green;
Softened -
Yet still hard.
Silent -
Yet riotous
As wind buffets
My face when I
Speed past.
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Dragonhead [Tanka]
dragonhead
rises up out of a cloud,
over the city.
how many see the cloud,
but not the dragon?
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Ripple Chaos [Haiku]
raindrops ripple paddy water;
wavelets wrap into grain stalks.
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Cascade [Haiku]
after the rains,
water cascades in ways
never seen before.
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Cloud Avalanche [Haiku]
clouds fill the valley:
a gauzy avalanche
in slow motion.
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Sun Tinged [Haiku]
“Thou Strainest Through the Mountain Fern” (A Fragment) by William Wordsworth [w/ Audio]
Thou strainest through the mountain fern,
A most exiguously thin
Burn.
For all thy foam, for all thy din,
Thee shall the pallid lake inurn,
With well-a-day for Mr. Swin-
Burne!
Take then this quarto in thy fin
And, O thou stoker huge and stern,
The whole affair, outside and in,
Burn!
But save the true poetic kin,
The works of Mr. Robert Burn'
And William Wordsworth upon Tin-
Tern!
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