sitting on a wall, beside the potted poinsettias, a cat grooms itself.
Christmas Cat [Haiku]
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Tag Archives: poetry
World in Sepia [Haiku]
a hazy day, the sun 's low, and the world turns old photo.
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Platform Living [Haiku]
a family lies
on cardboard mattresses
to keep bone from stone.
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Proximity Perception [Haiku]
Wolf Spider [Haiku]
a wolf spider scurries overland like I cross a hot beach.
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Cave Days [Haiku]
Spared the Human Curse [Free Verse]
Seven Sages were spared the sickness
of perceiving the possibility of perfection,
a "perception" of the patently impossible --
in truth, just dim and flimsy imaginings of mind,
and, so, they didn't mind the inevitable
flaws of the human world.
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A Poor Place to Be [Lyric Poem]
A turned field on a cloudy day. A clapboard shack, with threat of rain. Oh, it's so dark and gloomy - a rickety roost, not so roomy. Staring out the window, wondering: was that sound grumble or thundering? Grumble of stomach, thunder of sky? And I can't see out this bad eye.
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Mountain Life [Haiku]
in misty mountains, lichen & moss carpeted, two mushrooms stand tall.
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Language Liquidity [Free Verse]
language is liquid;
meaning meanders.
in the long-run,
meanings are meaningless,
untethered and adrift
in an ocean of possibility.
[political words' meanings
don't drift, but tumble with
whiplash violence through
a desert of the possible.
But, predictably, the first variation
of a political word is the exact
opposite of its original meaning.]
Tiger Riding for Beginners 