the spider looked thin, but - given its limb-span - that's little comfort
Selenops Actophilus [Senryū]
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Tag Archives: poetry
Winter Sunrise [Haiku]
winter sunrise lights the bridge & gorge wall. i stand in the dark
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Freedom [Free Verse]
He who would know freedom
must be ready for the fall,
ready to be untethered.
Freedom is not
floating on a cloud;
it's riding the rapids down,
trying to get one's feet first,
so that one breaks a leg --
and not a skull --
on the rocks.
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Glowing Heart [Haiku]
Satori [Free Verse]
It was a moment of silent spaciousness. In the midst of a fight, there was no enemy -- just the effortless dance of the thing. That moment expanded to the infinite, & snapped back to one tick after the tock. Since then, no catastrophe has felt too great for a smile.
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Horny Thorns [Haiku]
Sunflower [Haiku]
False Blossom [Haiku]
a false blossom, that crawls with wasps, hangs from a bare branch
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Faux-Autumn [Haiku]
two-season tropics: rain-slick yellow leaves fib that it's autumn
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Gold & Ripe [Haiku]
ripe grain turns gold, the year has matured like a person going gray
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