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Two Tankas and a Haiku
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Full moon this morning,
Around, shimmering halo,
Yesterday's last kiss.
Anxiety
Last week, a snake brushed
My feet while I walked alone
Wrestling with my thoughts;
Now, a rustling leaf, quite dead,
Scars that exposed memory.
No looking back
When I die, promise
You will incinerate our
Memories with me ( Read more... ) -
Placebos
As a child, when I cried ( Read more... ) -
Two Tankas and a Haiku
Travels
I reach home daily,
to travel with my daughter
on imagined trips
to places I have been to
but never seen, with such eyes.
Better Pill
Frustrating headache,
I swallow a Saridon,
then soulful music;
my mind dissolves silently
into unexpected bliss.
Awareness
So self aware, he
understood before he sought
and thus never did.
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Naturally Speaking
You always say your love is
As true and natural as mine,
And while it is no doubt so,
That it stirs in me an odd disquiet
seems to me just as natural
A reaction as your love to you,
But you simply dismiss it
As prejudice, if not bigotry,
And there is some of that
I agree, though I have tried
Truly, in my way, to be free.
But I do ponder now and ( Read more... ) -
Haiku: Affection
Wrote this Haiku in response to a photograph that my cousin had posted on Facebook - a photo of two cats cuddling each other. Realized, in hindsight, that without that context, it could be interpreted any which way. :-)
You think her cheeks flush
with the warmth of my body;
it is otherwise.
Separately, here’s a nice little video the same ( Read more... ) -
A passing cloud
I couldn’t quite decide which of these versions I liked more, so putting up both!
A passing cloud sheds
memories outside my home,
I collect a poem.
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A passing cloud sheds
memories outside my home,
envy fills me up.
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Home alone
A strange depression
fills my stomach as I search
for something to eat.
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Two Tankas
Winding down
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A gentle breeze blows
through the elderly couple
watching the sea dance,
ancient ghosts swirling inside
momentarily becalmed.
All in the family
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A laid-back monsoon
gathering of first cousins,
where our bonds were forged ( Read more... ) -
Simple Truths
Her utter candor, so charming
gently breaks my heart this time
when I ask "did you miss me, darling?",
and she whispers into her dress
"I don't know", an unexpected line
so lightly said, I can't but press
on to ask her, furrowing my brow
"what do you mean you don't know?"
She sneezes, and as I say "God bless",
she starts to ( Read more... ) -
Fractal
Where the water flows
the poem I shall dream tonight
is being written.