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1.3k · Dec 2021
haiku 21/12/20a
Mark Wanless Dec 2021
i see the window
of the soul of you i am
blind but i hear
1.3k · Apr 2023
haiku 21/2/4a
Mark Wanless Apr 2023
i don't see tonight
october moon dark sky
squirrells run rampant
1.3k · Jun 2022
"As a Dead Bird"
Mark Wanless Jun 2022
as a dead bird drops i fall into a silent place
with echoes upon echoes of mind moving itself
and i scream with the effort to speak of it
to retrieve a speck of the chill fire
to recognize and pronounce it a word
or shape of word      or confusion of word
to bear it into a semblance
1.3k · Jul 2022
fear 22/7/14a
Mark Wanless Jul 2022
i like illusion
of coffee...i know death is
mirage... peace is dream
born from projection fear
1.3k · May 2022
haiku 19/8/19
Mark Wanless May 2022
i like it when
you smile at me
mirror
1.3k · Apr 2022
haiku 22/4/15a
Mark Wanless Apr 2022
no coincidence
deep mind manifestation
and the world moves on
1.2k · Apr 2021
haiku 21/4/28a
Mark Wanless Apr 2021
in the land of ten
fingers the twelve fingered man
is the guitar king
1.2k · Dec 2020
haiku 20/12/31a
Mark Wanless Dec 2020
turkey's walk the street
humans say beep politely
life in the slow lane
1.2k · Dec 2022
haiku 22/26/E
Mark Wanless Dec 2022
i cannot see this
mind in an emptiness my
mind is emptiness
1.2k · Dec 2023
see 23/12/7a
Mark Wanless Dec 2023
see a beginning

travel to end

i have been

some where else

the journey is over

my steps were fallow
1.2k · Aug 2016
To the Big Man
Mark Wanless Aug 2016
To the big man i gave
Money, a smile, kindness
Civility
To the little girl i gave
Orders, a frown, rudeness
Denial
Of her Buddha nature
No different from the big man's
in Dharamsala
1.2k · Sep 2016
American Dream
Mark Wanless Sep 2016
There seems no end to the infinite
Variety of choices for some
Yet limits that shape our days and dreams
Are societies more common norm

True freedom a plaything in never
Never land i fear to see and say
A flashy bright illusion fooling
The mind in its momentary way

The money masters enslave themselves
And pull the thought strings with greed's intent
Profit their god they bow in their chains
To bleed the masses without relent
1.2k · Oct 2021
haiku 21/10/8b
Mark Wanless Oct 2021
nothing beats random
tree to halt life momentum
brown leaves on chill ground
1.2k · Aug 2021
wonder 21/8/30b
Mark Wanless Aug 2021
******* wonder mind
walks the streets at midnight
with a spray can and brush

canvas the world
approval does not matter
they do they boo

hope meaningless
is is is that's all
a condition of existence

a consistent emptiness
to be filled with they
and the earth moves
Basquiat
1.2k · May 2023
i see 21/1/25a
Mark Wanless May 2023
i sparkled a couple trillion
brain cells
one-one thousandth of a second ago
blue sky an  whiperwill
1.2k · Jan 2023
haiku 23/1/4a
Mark Wanless Jan 2023
gilded a prison
in the moments of
yet was is
1.2k · Oct 2021
haiku 21/10/24a
Mark Wanless Oct 2021
my words are so strong
the volcano is jealous
hah ego mind rules
1.2k · Sep 2019
haiku 19/9/3d
Mark Wanless Sep 2019
new demigods,twitter, facebook
call all souls to worship
we type in obedience
ah everybody knows this
1.2k · Jan 2022
haiku 20/9/9a
Mark Wanless Jan 2022
pain don't matter now
breath and blood all important
sound the speech of war
1.2k · Nov 2020
haiku 20/11/15
Mark Wanless Nov 2020
i traverse life now
keeping precious mind busy
between cigarettes
1.2k · May 2022
haiku 22/5/3a
Mark Wanless May 2022
love my spaghetti
love my spaghetti mind oh
yah the spaghetti
1.2k · Nov 2022
haiku 22/11/12a
Mark Wanless Nov 2022
i called a dog to
the door the dog come to be
a dog ever was
1.2k · Apr 2023
duality 21/1/29c
Mark Wanless Apr 2023
the lies we tell ourselves are
   part of our consciousness
globules of satan's blood drip
   into our souls
1.1k · Oct 2021
glide 17/12/19
Mark Wanless Oct 2021
"Glide"

Eagle flying up above
wings of majesty
Floating high up in the sky
a dream   of mind

Glide up into atmosphere
without a downward glance
No need for a such a tiny bit
of you   and me

An eagle being what it is
flying fast for love
An eagle in the sky is free
being   what it is

Heard a story long ago
a distant melody
All thoughts and thinking but a dream
vacant to and fro

Now i know there's nothing new
this here and time is free
I give up all i ever want
for eagle majesty
1.1k · Sep 2021
dumb humans 21/9/14b
Mark Wanless Sep 2021
it is not me
it is the computer

i do what it tells me to
i am puppet to the master

old reality lost
we created

we control it's true
mistakes are made

not by sentient circuits
dumb humans
1.1k · Oct 2021
haiku 21/10/17c
Mark Wanless Oct 2021
true knowledge so deep
we have to go forward slow
compassion and love
1.1k · Apr 2023
haiku 20/12/16b
Mark Wanless Apr 2023
from inside to out
i fill all the universe
i am very small
1.1k · Jan 2022
the call 22/1/20c
Mark Wanless Jan 2022
differentiate between
   the obscure of time
and the real now
   falling forward

no place is here true
   but a piece of what
can be is whatever

i smile and drift
   my mind and this
is but a short poem
1.1k · Jan 2022
haiku 22/1/3a
Mark Wanless Jan 2022
haiku 22/1/3a

so the micro invisiblility
of the nuance crys for
a true revelation of the unknown
1.1k · Feb 2022
haiku 20/7/18a
Mark Wanless Feb 2022
i want a spring bonsai tree
possess it as own
shape it to controlling will
1.1k · May 2021
haiku 21/5/27b
Mark Wanless May 2021
i dream of walking
on mountains   ha ha ha just
one hundred paces
1.1k · Dec 2021
haiku 21/12/21a
Mark Wanless Dec 2021
biled catacomb of
thoughts grip my soul in darkest
chains which can be loosed
1.1k · Dec 2022
haiku 22/11/25d
Mark Wanless Dec 2022
fat squirrel move slow
warm sun brown leaves food close now
ignorance craving
1.1k · May 2022
haiku 22//5/17a
Mark Wanless May 2022
i've had it so soft
the pain blinded me
did not see the real
1.1k · Jan 2021
haiku 21/1/29b
Mark Wanless Jan 2021
politics,,,,, start out
something alive,,,,, ****,,,,, processe
sell the rotting flesh
1.1k · Jan 2022
haiku 20/11/3f
Mark Wanless Jan 2022
haiku 20/11/3f

i am not teacher
you are not ignorant mind
you create meaning
1.1k · May 2022
haiku 19/5/30a
Mark Wanless May 2022
tiger scent with
rustle of dry leaves
on the path   a flower
1.1k · Jul 2023
i do not know 19/11/6a
Mark Wanless Jul 2023
i eat the food of the soft and hard work
   no time is left for a god to appear
cross the river and find a path that works
   a life of effort all live with the true

of not excisting in the mind of self
   and what we call god is a bandaid that
is better than nothing as we bleed life
   out of love upon a table raza

which is true yet maleable so now
   we walk and talk the walking head maybe
not a word is true that's not thought softly in
   a moment of yells and we follow

as to the inner true unheard that
can be peaceful if we try i do not know what
1.0k · Sep 2016
Awakening
1.0k · May 2023
haiku 23/5/11
Mark Wanless May 2023
i am not in charge
i write poetry what you
think is in your mind
1.0k · Jul 2023
haiku 23/6/29a
Mark Wanless Jul 2023
i saw a devil
dog on the rotisserie
at a convenience store
1.0k · Feb 2023
haiku23/2/7b
Mark Wanless Feb 2023
and the door opens
unto an empty chamber
existent future
1.0k · Mar 2022
haiku 20/4/27a
Mark Wanless Mar 2022
we're all just beautiful
people walking around
imagining other things
1.0k · Mar 2022
haiku 20/7/2a
Mark Wanless Mar 2022
feel a little bit like war
the trees have new leaves
i wander in conscious mist
1.0k · Aug 2021
haiku 21/8/7d
Mark Wanless Aug 2021
i thought i saw a
god in my mind it was just
you in a mirror
1.0k · May 2021
haiku 21/5/7c
Mark Wanless May 2021
gun man comes into
i try to **** him hard or
hide behind a child
1.0k · Nov 2017
The Cockroach
Mark Wanless Nov 2017
"The Cockroach"


the fleet canary was green
flying     out the window
the pair of feet were dead
white     alone in the corner
with nothing but a cockroach
for company
the cockroach was inquisitive
brown     and ready to be crunched
though somehow unafraid
the red smear was everywhere
splattered to the four corners
of the womb like room
the war     just beginning
1.0k · Jun 2022
the hill
Mark Wanless Jun 2022
21/11/3

the grass on the hill
speaks nothing until
our ears open with age
and the demons dark will
loses meaning

the soft melody
of piece sends a thrill
to the harbor of will
and causes a self
into being

action a skill learned
from birth to grave
we pay not attention
to continous pain
and we travel
1.0k · Jun 2022
haiku 20/1/30
Mark Wanless Jun 2022
this time of compassion
my effort so small
ha   one tiny step
997 · Dec 2022
haiku 22/12/16a
Mark Wanless Dec 2022
pain does not become
pleasure it becomes nothing
but pain
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