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1.2k · Jun 2016
The Opportunist
sparrow in the hedge
upside down watching tables
crumbs are falling up
Haiku
1.2k · Oct 2012
Lust
Run before the wind
Pay out the mainsail and jib
Desire strongly gusts
1.2k · Oct 2012
Looking for Treasure
Picking up agates
Ragged brown waters bare teeth
Glacier huge above
1.2k · Aug 2016
Flow
when i look at life
in all its complexity
i see a river
making its sinuous way
from the high snowcapped mountains
to the currents, waves and tides
of the eternal ocean
and there to evaporate
rising up in silver clouds
above the towering peaks
to rain and snow upon them
and flow down again
Choka
1.2k · Sep 2012
Lottie
A geranium
pungent smell with scarlet blooms
Grandmother's blue eyes
1.2k · Dec 2012
Gossips
Malicious gossips
Spitting in each others ears
Lips flapping wildly
In mad haste to be the first
To sink the knife and turn it
1.2k · Jan 2016
Miss Communication
it's not what you say
but what you choose not to
that stabs at my heart
Senryu
1.2k · Sep 2012
Take It Easy
Your haughty anger
And pedant revelations
Cry for a good laugh
1.2k · Sep 2015
Love Transcendent
i love you so much
that i have lost any desire
to ever own you
instead let us drift down river
joyful in each others arms
navigating with our hearts
to the bright blue sea
1.1k · Feb 2016
Schism
anger never solves
it only serves to deepen
misunderstanding
Senryu
1.1k · Jan 2015
Extremism
Ecstatic blind faitH
Vile severe dogmA
Ignorant mistrusT
Loveless & coarsE
Acrostic
1.1k · Jan 2013
Dawn
Our Lady the Sun
A beauty  in shining robes
Casts morning's first light
Far across the pale slate sky
A little rooster crows back
1.1k · Jan 2013
Drowned in the deep
Missing you, I am
Flotsam in the pounding surf
In, out, up and down
Taken by the undertow
Drowned in the deep emotion
Tanka
1.1k · Oct 2012
Glow
Your vivid colours
Delicate taste and sweet scent
Luminesce my soul
1.1k · Dec 2012
A Gentle kiss
Your lips are so soft
Softer than the rest of you
But that cannot be
For I know the rest of you
Is as soft as soft can be
1.1k · Dec 2015
Christmas Tree
beside the fireplace
all coloured lights, tinted wreaths
and bright glass baubles
its base wrapped in green paper
its top a big silver star
and one little boy kneeling
watching the bubble lights glow
lost in the magic
Choka
1.1k · Apr 2016
A Walk
near the whitewashed wall
a splash of geraniums
blazed a rich blood red
in the golden glance
of daylights final dazzle
i stopped and i enjoyed it
a house finch warbled nearby
shadows deepened all around
and drowned the final glow
gold to blue then starry night
filled with the songs of crickets
and my thoughts of you
Choka
1.1k · Jan 2013
Observation
Dead, twisted pine bough
Gray against the dark green sea
Two crows huddle there
From the cold wind, beak to beak
A red cheeked child stares, watching
1.1k · Nov 2015
Alight
cuddling as night falls
venus on the horizon
celestial love
Senryu
1.1k · Feb 2014
A Fisherman No More
From afar and deep
You called to me while fishing
In the wild green sea
Then casting my nets away
I came to you and anchored
1.0k · Jun 2016
Society's Woes
so many wounded
hiding their deformity
they stagger along
ravaged by childhood abuse
lurching through lifetime's journey
from one crisis to the next
lonely and feeling unloved
angry and so full of fear
ashamed and in denial
unable to truly bond
with anyone else
Choka
1.0k · Dec 2012
Expiation
Tread beneath the sphinx
There, beyond it's hardened gaze
A riverboat waits
Slip among the papyrus
And sail south to Amun-Ra
1.0k · Dec 2015
First Snow
snow sparkling, drifting
down through the darkened wood
a grouse drums, unseen
Haiku
1.0k · Oct 2012
Your Eyes
Soft light creeping in
I sip coffee, hot and black
Glimpsing back, I tilt my chair
Blue sky through spruce boughs
Retrospective of your eyes
Tanka
1.0k · Oct 2012
Loss
Neath night's velvet cloak
All sequin strewn, I turned,
Faced the wall and cried
1.0k · Oct 2012
The News
Polysyllabic
Gobbledygook and such like
Black's white and down's up
979 · Sep 2012
Happy accident
I cannot forget
When I first laid eyes on her
Watch out idiot!
977 · Oct 2012
Kinda Loopy (Lumpy?)
Quantum gravity
Big and small or not at all
Stringing us along
965 · Sep 2012
Last night
These candles are cold
With frozen stalactite beards
But love blazed last night
957 · Sep 2015
Tin Drum
When I was just three
I was given a tin drum
I played it all day
and into the evening
next day I could not find it
956 · Nov 2012
Late Autumn
High up in a tree
An orange and battered leaf
Twists, turns and flutters
The passing raven calls,"prruk!"
Beneath the dark blue mountain
952 · Sep 2012
Evil Lurks
Yes, Evil still lurks
In this old and sweet world
Wearing Armani
950 · Sep 2015
Giant
on a cool morning
i meandered by the shore
the crisp salt air was pungent
as the first rays touched the bay
with dazzling reflections
the deep thrum of a tugboat
sounded across the inlet
from within a low fogbank
and ravens clacked and cackled
high up in the dark forest
beneath the steep, sawtooth peaks
i stopped then and looking down
saw small brown ***** scuttling
across the shell littered beach
fleeing a giant
Choka
945 · Mar 2015
My Sunbeam
When I  am with her
All is sunlight and laughter
Night falls when she leaves
Haiku
939 · Oct 2012
Hill 60
Manzanita bush
Dry, rust red and bleached limbs twist
Above, eagles soar
938 · Oct 2012
Tempest Fugit
Wet gusts burn my flesh
Tasting brine, I tack the deep
Heeling through the gale
937 · Apr 2015
Nocturnal Nocturne
Above the black wood
A moonless, deep cobalt, vault
Filled with stellar sparks
Glowered, mute and majestic
Below, coyotes howled and yipped
930 · Sep 2012
The Tenderness of Love
I cannot but think
That the tenderness of love
Has no parallel
928 · Dec 2015
Cheers
underneath the stars
by the ocean on the sand
I will build a fire
then at midnight I will smile
and raise my glass in a toast
wishing a happy new year
to one and to all
Choka
927 · Dec 2014
Dreamtime
Wading through tide pools
Tiny ***** slip under rocks
Purple stars abound
The surface full of sparkles
A child's wonderland unbound
Tanka
926 · Apr 2013
Unseen
In the deep mountains
Coral rhododendrons bloom
In the night, unseen
haiku
925 · Sep 2012
Scratching an Etch
Scratch through the coating
To metal, then acid dip
clean, ink, pounce, and print
Thank you again for the inspiation Bala
923 · Jun 2016
Alone
gulls with crows fly high
cicadas rasp deafening
wasps and flying ants
forage over the parched ground
neath blue sky and ragged clouds
among the twisted oak trees
that dot the parched field of gold
by the sea by the graveyard
on the point on the foreshore
in the heat in the west wind
i walk staring out to sea
breathing the salty air
dreaming and alone
Choka
919 · Mar 2016
One Way
when i was a child
i knew one thing for certain
adults don't listen
Senryu
918 · Dec 2012
Discotack
The band plays loudly
Well dressed rhinos and cougars
Pose and line up for action
I catch your eye and exit
You follow me and escape
906 · Sep 2012
The black cricket
The black cricket knew
When late summer came around
And sang a love dirge
900 · Jan 2015
Oil & Water
Lined up at drug store
Guy in front buying chainsaw
Fear, "Instead of meds?"
Haiku
894 · Oct 2012
Wet Promenade
The rain smashing down
Hard, fast, and spiking back high
Soaked, we laughed and ran
Through dancing pools on sidewalks
Hand in hand, slipping through leaves
888 · Apr 2015
Learn
You feel hard done to
So unappreciated
Your days full of angst
And your mind crawling with fleas
Let go, breath deep, learn to love
Tanka
888 · May 2015
Speed Reeding
The cold wind of time
Blowing upon my pages
Hurrys me along
Haiku
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