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895 · 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
895 · Jul 2016
Lucifer's Drub
deep in the blackwood
beside yellow skunk cabbage
a jagged spectre
stands astrde a tiny stream
twixt ferns and huckleberries
its twisted thorn covered limbs
looking cruel and alien
they gesture menacingly
and they win the argument
so i make a wide detour
and think how appropriate
that this bizarre armored plant
be called devil's club
Choka
889 · Jan 2015
Happiness
I have traveled far
On this journey we call life
And I assure you
The true road to happiness
Begins within your own heart
Tanka
889 · 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
883 · Dec 2012
Prana by the water
Small clouds scudding high
Mist growing on the water
The day begins red
And fish leap all a glitter
I smile, drinking my coffee
Tanka
881 · Jun 2016
A Sauna
cedar wood and fire
sweat and aromatic heat
ladles spilled on rocks
heated through unto the core
then getting up and leaving
and rolling naked in the snow
with a painful ecstasy
followed by relaxation
a deep sense of well being
and very pink skin
Choka
880 · Oct 2012
Awakening
A new day dawns bright
I sip cold and golden air
Contented to be
880 · Sep 2012
Fare thee well
Remember that we
Are all Bozos on this bus
Laugh, that's the ticket!
878 · Apr 2016
Wander Wall
i never dreamt that
the sun down under my feet
tracking the night time
seeking through the star eyed murk
would teach me the value of
the coming of dawn
Choka
876 · Jan 2016
David Bowie R.I.P.
glad he was
sad he is no longer
goodbye stardust
Senryu
873 · Jul 2016
Wash Out
in this cluttered life
flooded with empty data
we are all drowning
Senryu
873 · Aug 2015
Campfire
fibonacci  sparks
racing to their extinction
through the cold night air
tracing fleeting silhouettes
that drift and fly within me
as I look upon the flames
my back to the night
choka
870 · Nov 2015
False Idols
if your God asks you
to ****** and to destroy
he is not a god
instead, he is but a man
twisted, thirsting for power
at others expense
Choks
868 · Oct 2015
Carnal Beatitude
touching, caressing
our flaming bodies entwined
consecrating us
in loves scorching crucible
a passionate rhapsody
sublime and boundless
Tanka
860 · Dec 2015
Making The Cut
cupid's small arrow
is a fly speck compared to
the axe of lost love
Senryu
858 · Dec 2015
Blur
a gentle rustling
a blur across the sidewalk
a bumblebee mouse
Hailu
Abrupt, blustering
Critical and quick to judge
What a fool I think
843 · Jan 2016
True Success
i care not for fame
i need only the love
of my family
Senryu
839 · Mar 2015
welcome
My door is open
It is oak with brass fittings
Sturdy and handsome
I oil the wood, buff the brass
And I will never close it
Tanka
836 · Jul 2015
Summer Barbie
Blue orb in gold flames
Glaring down with searing gaze
Upon our earthly grill
Hsiku
836 · Nov 2012
Winter Hearth
I light the kindling
And a warm and orange glow
Fills the little room
Outside, from afar, wolves howl
As the moonlit snow sparkles
835 · Oct 2012
Patsy Clime
Why do you attack
One another without remorse
And no good intent
Caring not what you destroy
Being entropy's patsy
833 · Feb 2016
Shine
she shines with beauty
like sunlight through beveled glass
igniting my heart
Senryu
831 · Apr 2016
Baby That's Biology
life's complexity
is spellbinding to behold
a fractal splendour
that will never fit into
a pedantic pigeon hole
for when it is studied close
it generates more questions
than it does primal answers
instead it is wonderful
a universe without end
full of beauty abundant
a shining celebration
of entropy's spawn
Choka
830 · Jul 2016
Reincarnation
lemon yellow sun
through the cool white morning mist
on the woodland lake
bird song like flowers bursts out
above the mutter of ducks
whiffs of breakfast and coffee
come from the crackling campfire
and I feel one with it all
as the day begins afresh
with dawn's absolution
bright and full of hope
Choka
829 · Feb 2013
Poetic Tourniquet
Those dry little words
So neat upon their pages
Filled with blood and tears
Staunching my lettered bleeding
I wrap my lines and tighten
823 · Feb 2016
Hope (Trust)
wipe away your tears
your love is a rainbow
the sun is rising
822 · Nov 2015
Return
swimming slowly
starfish below, stars above
underneath the moon
gliding through still warm waters
my wake spining reflections
across the deep velvet night
as i cross the black lagoon
searching for the shore
Choka
819 · Sep 2012
Inspiration
With thought's silver spark
Imagination's flame lights
Gauzy moths fly in
819 · Oct 2015
Nightmare (Obsession)
your voice in the night
a siren song waking me
chanting through the surf
beckoning and bewitching
pulling me out through the waves
deeper and deeper i slide
immersed within my obsession
i call your name futilely
then stumble and go under
drifting out to sea
Choka
818 · Jul 2016
Hidden Treasure
seize everything
that is precious to me
and steal it away
yet I will still be rich
for you can never take
the love within my heart
that will always be there
as long as I live
Choka
813 · Mar 2016
Feeling
i know you love me
for i can feel your heart beats
from behind your wall
Senryu
809 · Jul 2015
Breathe
Rain falls steadily
Straight down from the dark slate sky
Umbrellas march past
The air is green tinged
Hedges bursting with bird song
Then a flash and thunder's roar
the rain now falling harder
The smell of damped dust rises
I breathe in the earthy scent
glad to be alive
Choka
809 · Jan 2016
Before the Fall
you there on the stilts
looking down upon us all
beware of termites
Senryu
807 · Nov 2015
Your Smile
i love when you smile
with that bright look in your eyes
amorous playful
804 · Nov 2012
Just another parity face
Splendorous visage
Silver creased and amber lined
Your gaze ensnares us
With visions false and true
You give life and then we die
801 · Feb 2013
Up the Down
Up the down I strode
Rising far above the fields
Till evening came
Then, beneath a starstruck sky
Down the down I swayed and rolled
Tanka
800 · Jul 2016
Dauntless
every set - back
is an opportunity
seize it and grow
Senryu
793 · Nov 2012
Season's Greetings
From tiny to huge
Bells ring, chime and clang brightly
Across night's dark vault
And the silent snow drifts down
Filling my heart with good cheer
Tanka
791 · Oct 2012
Arc Angles
Old Sol was setting
Shadows corked the valleys dark
And I cast a stone
785 · Mar 2013
Springtime's Siren
Sweet sussurations
Drift through bright cherry blossoms
I hear her and wake
Haiku
781 · Dec 2015
Familiar
sometimes your problems
are so familiar
that you can't see them
Senryu
781 · Dec 2014
Innocence
As a child I laughed
Arms out, bounding in the surf
Seals calling my name
My world was bright, fresh and free
I knew not shame nor envy
Tanka
776 · Dec 2012
Epiphany (reawakening)
I turn and I turn
Life's sweet colours spinning past
Faster and slower
Around and around I go
Full of all and full of awe
(or Dance of the Itinerant Time Traveler)(or Small Vehicle to Nirvana)
775 · Dec 2012
Down by the Bay
I stood there, upon
An aggregate of needles
Harbor behind me
Tired fluorescent sign in front
Then got on my bike and rode
773 · Jul 2015
A Hot Date
The fecund summer
Seethes with songs and raucous hues
And winter be dammed
Haiku
772 · Apr 2016
Cruising
sailboats at anchor
rocking slowly to and thro
small dogs barking high
frisking down the seawall
passing nannies and strollers
till i chase them back again
ringing my bicycle's bell
swooping around the corner
laughing in the wind
Choka
771 · Oct 2012
Msr. Belljar
You, in long tweed coat
Spin, screaming, squirrel on chest
Nature abhors you
771 · Oct 2012
Mad Creation
Just today I read
That we are all somewhat daft
Not a curse, methinks
763 · Sep 2015
Abundance
richer than Midas
with her touch, everything
was transformed to love
Haiku
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