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305 · Sep 2017
haiku no. 101
Christian Bixler Sep 2017
old eyes
there the border worn
the bamboo
305 · Feb 2015
Lost
Christian Bixler Feb 2015
I wander, lost. Am I a spirit,
to wander so, sad and lonely,
cut off from the roiling, chaotic,
masses of humanity, and set to
wander, adrift in a brilliant sea,
vivid colors clashing always,
with the ever present void of
Infinity?
An excerpt from an earlier poem, written and set adrift, to find its way.

A Wandering Soul, Lost In Infinity
Christian Bixler Sep 2017
tassels like little golden angels dancing in pattern without discernible sustainability some it seems fallen skirts blown back, or else kicking high in un-understandable ecstasy, beyond the grasp of my limited recognition of cognition, of understanding fullest being, expressive nonsense..Acceptance that this is not so, or at least only partially so, one being one mind one heart soul eternal there is only peace. Joy. Love. the depths of despair are only a manifestation of too deep a rut, too deep a meshing in the superficial nature of things, reality. Simple truths seen as incomprehensible because they are seen from eyes flipped upside down, backward set them right with the primal pattern which always is and always will be. See from the heart and the mind will settle in peaceful abandon...
Write to recognize the depths of confusion throw it away when one wishes to see the truth beyond limitation...mind not good not bad one with all a recognition of the truth is by no means necessary, only be, the fullest extent of yourself nothing means anything beyond there is nothing beyond self, which is all things...there is only being. Ever-present within without the dynamic expression change is an illusion fostered in the depths of blind submergence...
301 · Feb 2018
haiku no. 117
300 · Feb 2017
A Winter Meeting
Christian Bixler Feb 2017
I see a bird, red
and black his wings, fluttering
bright eye in glossy head

will he speak?
Christian Bixler Sep 2017
standing before the beat wooden table, artificial, I'm staring at a painting of white water, cool trees in late autumn, and a wide dim blue sky, clouds manifested as broad dashes of faded white blending somewhat with the blue behind it, so that the detail of the trees and the long staring streaks of cloud seem to express the fundamental oneness of opposites, the dim light seems to portend a storm hovering on the east winds...a waiting portrait blurred in a long time gale soaked with rain from the rolling Atlantic, all without the streaked panes of glass barring my eyes from the frantic surging.
somewhere sometime a lost sparrow's beating in the spray before sight of land..
Christian Bixler Nov 2014
An Angel soaring, flying,
purpose divine lights his eyes.
Glowing, full of Holy Purpose,
wings spread, black and white,
he flies, black hair streaming,
pale face glowing, eyes alight
with the power of the Almighty,
God, who sits in Heaven, and so
watches over his faithful, men
and women who have taken into
their hearts the glory, light, and
love, that is He.

An Angel soars, coming to Earth,
Gods purest creation, landing, grassy
knoll alive with his touch, presence
spreading, flowing, the flowers raise
their heads, the leaves unfurl, to the
light and glory of the presence of
God, his might and glory flowing
from the Angel and out, Life and Light
pouring out, Gods first creation, testament
and reminder, to the power and glory of
God.

And the waters flowing, pure, cleansed of
taint, and vile substance, flow on, bringing
a tide of Life, rejuvenating flow, power springing
from the smallest finger of the Hand of God.

The Angel bows, the light recedes, night returns,
stars shining, their light beacons, white fire, to light
the dark vaults of Heaven.

And then, in a great surge of power and holy light,
he is gone, gone back to his Fathers Halls in the
Eternal Paradise of Light and Love that is Heaven.

The flowers bow their heads in sleep, the leaves
close upon their limbs, the quiet of night once
again envelops the sleeping world, and wraps all
in a soft shroud of darkness.

There is the smell of Jasmine in the air, the
leaves sigh on the standing trees, a night wind
to stir the air, the scent of salt upon its wings,
an ocean tang, exotic, and yet familiar, as a
dreamer encounters substance of a half
remembered dream, vivid in the waking world,
and wonders, at this feeling, sublime in its
familiarity, wonderful, in its quality of exotic
strangeness, the substance of dream
intruding on the daylight world, subtle and
yet bold, a seeming figment of the
sleeping mind, made real, in the light of day.

And so this dream, wonderful, in its glory
and light, may intrude in subtle ways into
the internal fabric of your everyday life,
reminder of the glory and power and light
and love, of the Almighty, eternal in his
undying light.
Ah, to have such a dream as this! I yearn for it, body and soul, and yet must trust to chance that I will one day be visited by such a vision of glory and splendor. I pray that my wish shall be granted, one day.
293 · May 2020
haiku no. 129
Christian Bixler May 2020
plain shapes
hose, cube, cone
colored homely
Lamp fixtures
292 · Aug 2020
haiku no. 138
292 · Feb 9
haiku no. 158
one small ear poking out
her covers rise
and fall
292 · Mar 2017
haiku no. 60
Christian Bixler Mar 2017
air as fish's breath, so
we rest under eaves--
wet feet
A memory of sheltering from the rain under the low hanging branches of the trees while hiking the Appalachian trail.
292 · Sep 2017
haiku no. 100
Christian Bixler Sep 2017
border of bright
eyes it seems pinned
the bamboo
Christian Bixler May 2022
Envy
how I hate it
It makes me want to **** a man for
dreaming, for asking me to dream.
What use is it, what use have you
in dreaming, in presuming
that I am not in my very essence
capable only of glimpsing the edges
the light-limned outline of the door
leading forward
and falling back again.
I'm too tired to edit.
290 · Feb 2017
Haiku no. 15
Christian Bixler Feb 2017
Birdsong
dew clings to grasses edge--
wind breaks the stillness.
Written so, throughout the course of an hour, more or less; but I think now it is good.
289 · May 2017
haiku no. 91
Christian Bixler May 2017
wondering
perhaps in the ocean's spray
a ghost's habitation
Goodbye and hello, as always.
the ghost crab--strange creature.
289 · Feb 2017
Haiku no. 8
Christian Bixler Feb 2017
Pause, stride break
lean tree bends so slow;
birds leap to flight.
a moment of beauty seen while walking swiftly to my next appointment. I  know that it does not adhere to the rule of 5 7 5, but, as you may learn, this matters not, so much as the simple rule; to be able to say all in a single breath.
287 · Jan 19
haiku no. 155
bluebird courting
on each branch he bobs
up and
down
283 · Mar 2017
haiku no. 59
Christian Bixler Mar 2017
sleeping tree, roots
how deep--my heart
even in apathy
282 · Feb 2017
Haiku no. 1
Christian Bixler Feb 2017
Green fields, shining, calm
deceptive beauty; I watch
trees fall to either side.
My first true Haiku. Treat it kindly; it is newborn yet, and still must learn to fly.
281 · Sep 2017
haiku no. 104
Christian Bixler Sep 2017
think
how do artists paint
a leave-taking
281 · Mar 2017
haiku no. 80
Christian Bixler Mar 2017
for nine days
dust has smoothed it
this worn cup
sometimes through disuse, for a little while, those things we thought familiar and essential are shown to us, perhaps and perhaps not so; and in either case in a new and unexpected light.
277 · Sep 2024
Vignette; Dandelions
Christian Bixler Sep 2024
I see you
bursting like dolphins
from a grassy sea.

Crownless,
it is for the light on your leaves
I would honor you.
Silver rippling, with the breeze and the thunder.

And you among them
still, with gold on your bent
stalk. My heart goes out to you.
Linger a little longer, fairest
one. When spring comes again
I will look for you.
https://youtu.be/DVebPEyrors
276 · Jul 2017
haiku no. 95
Christian Bixler Jul 2017
dragging wood
now at the end of a long day
a song for weariness
Singing an old song under the roar of the mower, and in those times when I found myself alone as I worked to clear several stands of new growth saplings. It was a shame to cut them. The song helped in keeping up my spirits.
273 · Jan 2017
Sight's Journey
Christian Bixler Jan 2017
Walking...
Walking.
Walking,
light, the falling
Universe,
revolving
in endless
stillness,
within
Chaos,
within
Life.

Walking,
through
t­he ocean
of the
Universe,
of the void
not-void,
each step
sending
ripples,
energy;
the seeds of
Life.

Looking,
I see,
the world
falls
away,
the Universe,
is not,
and all
is nothing;
But within,
(striving
past the
Mind of
the Lost
Ones)
I see
Love,
and so,
the Universe.
To me, the greatest hope that mankind could ever gain
would be the yearning to see the Universe through the
eyes of God, the Divine; to see it in love, in love, and compassion,
and pity; for all of these things and more, they are God, the embodiment. Have peace, all of you, wherever you are, whoever you are. For within us all is God, ourselves.
272 · Oct 2017
haiku no. 109
Christian Bixler Oct 2017
not yet
waiting for night
and a family gathering
though the lines of this poem do not fall into the accepted format (short-long-short), it does I feel express the anticipation and energy experienced in this moment, in waiting. So I add it here.
272 · Mar 2017
haiku no. 72
Christian Bixler Mar 2017
winter echo
buds
and an empty nest
A sketch, perhaps a metaphor.
271 · Sep 2017
haiku no. 102
Christian Bixler Sep 2017
inadequacy
seeing it another way
it is peace
270 · Sep 2017
haiku no. 103
Christian Bixler Sep 2017
sightless bear
perhaps in time he
will grow into it
a white statue of a bear with the eyes shadowed by the light of the lamp.
268 · May 2020
haiku no. 130
Christian Bixler May 2020
leaf and tale
in brief
heart-shaped
268 · Feb 2017
Haiku no. 12
Christian Bixler Feb 2017
Sun streaming
the green smell fills the air--
cold burns my nose.
A laughing moment today; set here in beauty.
268 · Mar 2017
haiku no. 64
Christian Bixler Mar 2017
in spring
robin wings to robin--
this empty cup
sitting outside, I saw a styrofoam cup, left carelessly in the middle of the yard; and all around me birds were singing: so I composed this verse.
266 · Feb 2017
Haiku no. 13
Christian Bixler Feb 2017
See, below the hill
trees sway in even's breath
red poppies underfoot.
A beautiful scene, seen long ago, when flowers still grew wild on my fathers land.
262 · Jul 2017
haiku no. 97
Christian Bixler Jul 2017
yellow tassels
set in disarray perhaps
a static seabed
261 · Oct 2017
haiku no. 107
Christian Bixler Oct 2017
looking
there a twilit orchard
is barred

or

turning
now at my back there is
a fading orchard




halted
now as I turn there is
an orchard
note on the third: this one was made in the process of composing the second. It is included here because of the sound and the feel of it, though the words are misleading.
260 · Feb 2017
haiku no. 50
Christian Bixler Feb 2017
as the wind blows
the dog cherry tapers off
like a tail
Basho

in the wind
tail streaming--the grass
a scattered mirror
A poem in response to one of Basho's early verses.
260 · Feb 2017
Haiku no. 22
Christian Bixler Feb 2017
By an old road
gate shut--
a blackbird darts past.
259 · Feb 2017
Haiku no. 17
Christian Bixler Feb 2017
Butterfly, green as
leaves in springtime, fluttering--
sound, heart's chords.
Sight of a green butterfly twirling on the currents of the air. I watched it so for as long as it remained in my sight. Then I went and wrote this verse.
259 · Feb 2017
haiku no. 54
Christian Bixler Feb 2017
feet bare, in bare
sand, I walk--always mindful
of seashells
258 · Jul 2017
haiku no. 96
Christian Bixler Jul 2017
twilight
there on the waters edge
a shells beginning

or

sunset
there on the waters edge
a shells beginning
258 · Jan 30
Senryu no. 4
dim shower
this blue screen
washes over me
It was nostalgic writing this.
257 · Feb 2017
________
Christian Bixler Feb 2017
Through the light lanes,
Through the dark lanes,
Through the paths beneath
the sky, I wander,
And the sun a *****
Brilliance in shadow,
In the blue-green-brown speckled
Beauty of her Eye;
Revolving, revolving in ad infinitum,
Dancing in a
Faery dream..
Will she blink?
An exercise in Imagination
255 · Feb 9
haiku no. 159
in the daylight her face just sleeping
252 · Mar 2017
haiku no. 62
Christian Bixler Mar 2017
standing, on the
edge of green, the wind roars past--
a white tarp

or

standing, on the
edge of green, the wind roars past--
the white cloth, rippling
An impromptu verse.
251 · Feb 2017
haiku no. 51
Christian Bixler Feb 2017
coconuts
how small, swimming in a
balsamic sea
250 · Mar 2017
haiku no. 73
Christian Bixler Mar 2017
hanging red
beneath an old nest
branches
247 · Feb 2017
haiku no. 36
Christian Bixler Feb 2017
as sweet water
falling, in the first month
when glad my soul
247 · Nov 2020
Honesty
Christian Bixler Nov 2020
At times, in my
yet brief,
and ordinary life,
I have felt
wholly,
that all that there is
to anything
is inertia;
a reaction
that begun, ends: and
all I have felt
of beauty
is but the
latest iteration
of atoms.

It is like this,
sometimes,
that all the world seems empty,
or worse
that in everything around there is light,
but in me
only darkness,
corruption,
deficiency.

I have tried to be beautiful.

I have tried to hold
about me,
in me,
the mantle of righteousness;
of tolerance,
empathy,
and all that
seems
the trappings of the wise.
I have held to
old words,
verity,
and been content.
Not long.

For always there
has been some snag,
some frayed end,
that in the end
has been the cause
of my fall.
My very own fall
from grace,
in the endlessly
renewing
microcosm
of myself.

And in falling,
I fall always
into myself;
and there all the walls
are mirrors.

If you tell me
that there is still beauty in the world,
I will say yes,
I see it too,
and when I do I see it everywhere
and all the world is beautiful;
it's only
that I can't all the time,
that's all.

If you feel
that I am unhealthy,
if you worry; don't.
For even when it seems
that I will be crushed by darkness,
it is a truth,
that I love
the darkness;
seek it,
yearn for it.
Not always,
but sometimes,
I love it:
For it allows for
circular reflection,
for positive feedback loops,
for the intensification
of those id emotions,
without which, I feel
I could not live.
So thank you,
but don’t worry:
I will take care
of myself.
An old one that still rings true. I thought it deserved the light. Thanks to any who read this.
246 · Feb 2017
Life, Throughout the Storm
Christian Bixler Feb 2017
Wind
Swells in the sea and
Sky,
Darkening;
My little boat
fares on,
Waiting
For the
World to
Calm.
245 · Mar 2017
haiku no. 78
Christian Bixler Mar 2017
what chance
meeting in a locked door
two kinds of fortune
Coming to the door late, after a nights work, I found it locked. Before entering the other way, I looked up, and all the stars were burning, marvelous in their number, and in their light.
244 · Feb 2017
Love
Christian Bixler Feb 2017
Love; thorn
in the brier
strand;
hypodermic
in its kisses'
sting-
the breath
of life in
the brittle
womb;
soft succor,
the shoots of
Spring: Peace
in the needles
bite.
In order for one to love fully, one must be willing to sacrifice fully; in order to gain everything, one must first lose everything. When one can look upon the world, its joys and sorrows alike, and see in all Love, and recognize it in love, then will the ordeal be complete, the sacrifice concluded; and peace and love and joy will all be yours, and wisdom
shall reign in your heart.
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