feet to cold stone - despite the tropical heat, a chill is felt
Tropical Chill [Haiku]
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In Praise of Multiplicity [Free Verse]
Everybody seeks oneness, but maybe one with everything is too much, it's a state in which one is lost, irrelevant, and unloved - all at once. Maybe it's better to be tied to the mast - like Odysseus - straining to make that dangerous connection, but unable to, the connection of non-connection, the love of longing, of trying, but not of being plugged in -- air-gapped to prevent resonance at a frequency that would shatter one's soul.
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Sea Gate [Free Verse]
The gate faced the sea. It seemed like a strange place for a gate. The sea spray of crashing waves flew up to douse those who passed through. Which way was in? Which way was out? And then I accepted that "in" & "out" were meaningless constructs, and that it was a portal between infinities.
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Wide Open Spaces [Free Verse]
out of my cell & onto the trail i walk the vast expanse, the vault of heaven above & hills of rolling green beneath my feet and clouds barge through blue skies like thoughts barge through my mind - sluggishly but inevitably
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Deep Dive [Common Meter]
To those who cling tenaciously to their own sanity: How much freedom can the sane have? How much humanity? Where's the freedom in not shouting your truth when/where you can? In pretending that the uni- verse has some sort of plan? Freedom lies in learning to ride the chaos to the depths, and learning how one can breathe denied the air for breaths.
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Misplaced Driftwood [Haiku]
on a green hillside stands a line of dead trees, looking like driftwood
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Fleeting Agoraphobia [Poem]
the world beyond my window seems so very far away like looking from a spacecraft at a dim and foggy day
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Alone in a Crowd [Couplets]
He sits alone. His barstool straight, it faces forward - not askew. The room is full, the music loud. He stares through his half-empty brew. He's oblivious to all else -- all alone in the human zoo.
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Himalayan Oasis [Haiku]
on the arid steppe sits a green oasis - patchwork fields
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Gompa [Haiku]
mountain Gompa, fused to the mountainside as if carved from rock
