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788 · Feb 2024
haiku 24/2/22a
Mark Wanless Feb 2024
large round red puddle
blood of the dog that bit me
i do feel better
786 · May 2021
haiku 21/5/6b
Mark Wanless May 2021
understanding the
shape of a mountain not an
unknowable task
785 · May 2023
haiku 23/5/27e
Mark Wanless May 2023
a sparrow twitters
it's happiness and does not
know its wonder mind
783 · Apr 2021
haiku 21/4/2b
Mark Wanless Apr 2021
choose or be a life
puppet on a string is you
unless you say not
783 · Oct 2023
bones 19/9/8a
Mark Wanless Oct 2023
this song will tell the count of bones sleeping

what call to arms does break the peace again

there is no cause but willfull mind unfolding

blades to human throats just us again


greed calls to all and is heard by many

loudly no place other than ego bliss

i speak amid the stars in my own meaning

no source of war but loving kiss
783 · Aug 2023
haiku 23/7/22
Mark Wanless Aug 2023
the words on the page
nothing but echoes in mind
mama papa me
781 · Jun 2016
March Forward Men
Mark Wanless Jun 2016
march forward my friend
in a world you do not understand
you are not the only one

march forward
your blind, in pain, confused
it's happened before

march forward, you hear the cry
of a child, a man, a woman
many hear the sound

a thousand years ago
a thousand years hence
march forward

pick up your *****
and march forward
written june1,16
780 · Jun 2022
haiku 22/6/1
Mark Wanless Jun 2022
i saw a universe
in my mind it was so ****
misconfigured
779 · Sep 2021
haiku 21/9/2b
Mark Wanless Sep 2021
i admit my faults
reluctantly and whisper
forgiveness to mind
779 · May 2022
haiku 19/8/23b
Mark Wanless May 2022
prism of mind
manifestation of universe
you me included
776 · Apr 2023
haiku 21/1/29a
Mark Wanless Apr 2023
hope falls from heaven
underneath pains umbrella
i feel the nothing
772 · Apr 2021
haiku 21/4/30a
Mark Wanless Apr 2021
tree in bloom white
flowers symbol of mind
forever young
772 · Sep 2016
Do Dolly
Mark Wanless Sep 2016
I've been to a place before the time
of now somewhere a here

i loved a maiden who grew old in my arms
lolly do lolly do lolly do day

please believe the knowledge of past
here is a repeat of love and gast

what is a moment of real and now, it all is
a place to see a peace

some see past the pains of now and you
are it but you don't know how

do lolly do lolly do dow do day
oh lolly do lolly do lah do hey

now is hot the past is snow, the future
a time of magnificent woe

where can you be if here's not enough
no place no place no place enough

oh lolly do lolly do dolly do heh
do dolly do dolly do dolly do day
there is a rhythm in my mind anyway
772 · Jan 2021
haiku 21/1/25b
Mark Wanless Jan 2021
gods walk among us
no here is just a mirror
we creators all
771 · Aug 2021
haiku 21/8/26b
Mark Wanless Aug 2021
i am the writer
you the thinker thank you
for your blessed service
Mark Wanless Jul 2023
We do so hard grasp these nascent bodies
Of thought that any occurrence of change
Brings with it pain. Deceitful aspect strange
This attribute of sentience. Shared lies
Self formed and self believed, and fierce beloved
Distract the known conscious moment again
And again in heroic effort vain
To shut out the ego damning dreaded
Truth of universal equanimity
Non specific to the fabricate me
The i perceiving. No answers can be
Found to malformed questions. The path to see
Begins with forgetting. But to uproot dreams
Of self repeatedly lived, hatedly looms.
766 · Dec 2021
haiku 21/11/25a
Mark Wanless Dec 2021
the dog eats my heart
i love it now forever
i eat her heart back
762 · Dec 2021
haiku 21/12/19d
Mark Wanless Dec 2021
a piece of shore can
enter the river slowly
to become much more
761 · Aug 2023
the Parting 19/9/25a
Mark Wanless Aug 2023
on soft clouds i walked so many days
we were lovers and i feel time now with my heartbeat
as we wander far apart
kissed by angels when i'm sleeping
or is your sweet soul touching me
this vaunted world is just a nonscence
without your memorey in mind
in the dark night dear past the moonbeams
i will ever see our favorite star
761 · Jan 2022
haiku 20/11/10b
Mark Wanless Jan 2022
haiku 20/11/10b

at the mossy grave
asked to be alone and am
pretending to pray
752 · Jul 2021
haiku 21/7/13b
Mark Wanless Jul 2021
silence a heaven
a hell a make believe a
consciousness of mind
752 · Jun 2022
haiku 20/2/29a
Mark Wanless Jun 2022
forever i stand alone
surrounded by compassion
illusion and reality
750 · Apr 2023
haiku 21/4/28b
Mark Wanless Apr 2023
where does love begin
in your own head only source
in the universe
746 · Jul 2021
haiku 21/7/15c
Mark Wanless Jul 2021
dreaming
someone does something
i will defend myself hard
hospital for all
746 · Jan 2021
funyou 21/1/29
Mark Wanless Jan 2021
the dog ate some flesh
off my arm then killed the bear
okay i agree
744 · Feb 2024
haiku 24/2/21a
Mark Wanless Feb 2024
cognit discontent
cognition desire
the mother of movement
so says amoeba
743 · May 2021
haiku 21/5/28a
Mark Wanless May 2021
the dog ma is here
again never went away
and peace keeps thriving
742 · Dec 2021
haiku 21/12/19a
Mark Wanless Dec 2021
constant reminder
of war my angry red mind
bless the peacemakers
742 · Oct 2021
haiku 21/10/6b
Mark Wanless Oct 2021
i am viking past
unknown voyager of seas
and to death battle
738 · Jan 2022
haiku 20/9/1a
Mark Wanless Jan 2022
there are no exits
but the ones we do create
this here is just now
738 · May 2021
haiku 21/5/26a
Mark Wanless May 2021
personality
changes with perception and
i see you so pure
736 · Apr 2023
haiku 21/1/25b
Mark Wanless Apr 2023
gods walk among us
no here is just a mirror
we creators all
736 · May 2022
haiku 19/8/20a
Mark Wanless May 2022
can there be a sentient
form that understands the all
no
732 · Jun 2020
haiku 20/6/4
Mark Wanless Jun 2020
cherry trees blooming
growing as happy children
soft   year after year
best in a long time
730 · Apr 2021
haiku 21/4/30a
Mark Wanless Apr 2021
dead lizard on the
tumultuous road i croak
under the machine
727 · May 2021
haiku 21/5/8a
Mark Wanless May 2021
from death arises
creation don't mean a thing
but that which you choose
722 · Dec 2021
haiku 21/12/19b
Mark Wanless Dec 2021
i stood on large rock
someone asked me for small help
i weakly chose no
722 · Jan 2022
haiku plan 20/9/2a
Mark Wanless Jan 2022
i plan to live till
ninety i hear laughter now
see you there my friend
718 · Jan 2022
wildman 21/?/?
Mark Wanless Jan 2022
ooh ooh ooh
   i've  got brain problems
over and over again
   i walk forward

and follow the self
   of the bear
and the dog
   going forward

many years i was
   where i am now
oh what a manifest destiny
   i dream of it all

do not worry
   no problem here
name me a loner
   a wildman
718 · Jan 2023
haiku 22/11/25c
Mark Wanless Jan 2023
a new poem walks
the earth you are rebirth
of universe mind
714 · Jan 2022
haiku 20/9/13a
Mark Wanless Jan 2022
the human race is
mother and i must suckle
or die a rare death
713 · May 2023
look 22/11/25b
Mark Wanless May 2023
you look at what you look at
i look at the stars
both essential minds of people
we are

a song of joy or sadness
traveling in time
there is a moment of dying
we are
712 · May 2023
haiku 21/4/22a
Mark Wanless May 2023
the cold winter bite
i am tracking the prey close
bear killed i shall ****
710 · Jan 2022
haiku 20/11/3b
Mark Wanless Jan 2022
why is dog the best
friend we have so much in this
common mind touching
710 · Feb 2024
haiku 24/2/4a
Mark Wanless Feb 2024
see the emptiness
in between things and moments
your mind is right there
710 · Mar 2023
haiku 23/3/11a
Mark Wanless Mar 2023
to perceive without
knowledge is ignorance we
are forever now
709 · Jan 2022
you and me 21/?/?
Mark Wanless Jan 2022
you do not know
   i hear you singing
you dream a dream
   and i am there
i see our hearts combined
   and the fear but air
call the clouds a heaven
   i see our destiny
love is life forgiven
   a soul is you and me
706 · Aug 2016
Jasmine
Mark Wanless Aug 2016
the glassy grasshoppers shatter
when bitten       with straight white teeth
chilled yellow peach pulp       a glacier
low blond table wood       biting silk liquid
fresh hyacinth       jasmine
music       plunk on plunk
pearl skin       soft cloud
rose petal       lips
705 · Nov 2021
haiku 21/11/17a
Mark Wanless Nov 2021
so the constant din
fervor in my mind is my
own thoughts *******
705 · May 2023
sweetums 23/2/20f
Mark Wanless May 2023
oh sweetums
i bless your comfort touch
the thought of heaven
recedes

i walk in my mind
dream of reality
legs wobbly i wobble
the snowy streets

please give me a moment
that we call our own
no need for future
just us and now
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