beneath cypress trees
stands a small pagoda;
top tier damaged
by storm-dropped limbs;
it won't outlast those trees.
Yielding [Tanka]
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Tag Archives: time
PROMPT: Past Self
Daily writing prompt
If you had a time machine and could send just one message to your past self, what would it say?
“You’re living in a dream world, a simulation, nothing is real.”
Can’t really change anything (see: Novikov Self-Consistency Principle) and I don’t believe people can enact wisdom until they are ready (i.e. whispering wise words in the ear will not make a wiser person,) and so I’m left with fucking with ourself.
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Relentless [Free Verse]
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PROMPT: Chapter
Daily writing prompt
What’s a chapter of your life you’d title “The Hard Years” — and what got you through it?
Chapter 7. Chapter 8.
NOTE: Incidentally, I would not title a chapter of my memoirs “The Hard Years,” so as to avoid the assumption that that was when I worked in porn. People would either skip said chapter… or skip to it.
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Straight & Tall [Haiku]
slender-stalked mushroom
stands straight & tall & still,
but not for long.
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BOOKS: “Four Quartets” by T. S. Eliot
Four Quartets by T.S. EliotMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
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Four Quartets is a collection of four long poems by T.S. Eliot, written over several years before and during the Second World War. The poems are: “Burnt Norton,” “East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages,” and “Little Gidding.” They share a theme of metaphysical inquiry, particularly regarding time and man’s relation therewith. The book came out about five years before Eliot won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and was the last of his major poetry collections, and so it reflects a mature phase of his poetry writing.
I loved this collection, which combines food for thought with beautiful turn of phrase. As far as I could see, most of the disgruntlement with the collection had to do with Eliot’s religious / spiritual references, which offended the sensibilities of some of the most stridently atheist / agnostic individuals in the poetic community. Besides reflecting his own Christian worldview, Eliot had clearly been moved by reading the Bhagavad Gita and makes a number of references to Krishna.
Four Quartets is a pleasant read and I’d highly recommend it for poetry readers.
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Solitude [Haiku]
Fungi Time [Haiku]
mushroom stands tall;
wasn’t there the day before,
may be gone the next.
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The Quiet Hour [Senryū]
deserted beach:
during the brief window
when partier's sleep.
