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623 · Nov 2021
haiku 21/11/17b
Mark Wanless Nov 2021
life ain't the master
of me no longer i tell
it what i will do
622 · Dec 2017
Traversing
Mark Wanless Dec 2017
"Traversing"

The vastness of the universe
Ignites my soul
Thoughts burst forward
Traversing the void
A shimmering mist of awareness
I drift
On the silence
Of infinity
I merge
With the power
Of a billion suns
622 · Jan 2023
haiku 23/1/1b
Mark Wanless Jan 2023
evolve the present
the present is all there is
ebb and flow unite
621 · Nov 2023
growls of hell 23/8/16
Mark Wanless Nov 2023
hounds of hell talked to me last night
hounds of hell talked till it was light
didn't know what they said
just confusion in my head

and i listened oh i listened
to the growls of hell
i listened oh i listened
to the howls of hell

went awake inside my head
saw the face of satan yeah
image of a normal man
kinda looked like you my friend

and i listened oh i listened
to the howls of hell
i listened oh i listened
to the growls of hell
618 · Mar 2023
haiku23/3/3
Mark Wanless Mar 2023
the observer falls
into a heavy night and
ceases to observe
617 · Sep 2019
haiku 19/9/6b
Mark Wanless Sep 2019
i had a necrotic tooth
inside my mouth
i tasted death
616 · Jan 2018
What Is
Mark Wanless Jan 2018
"What Is?"

truth, is a pacifier,
comforting and calming.

truth, is something
to hang on to, giving
a false sense of control.

truth, is an individual
and temporary construct,
of murky human thought.

Truth, is known
only to God,
if God exists.
616 · Jun 2023
"The Look of Innocence"
Mark Wanless Jun 2023
I saw the look of innocence
Which i used to call stupidity
In the eyes of fresh young bodies
Moving freely about the planet
To see if they can find themselves
Or some thing worth it to be
Or merely exciting the senses
I don't know which but i guess
And think i know a big mistake
That fades a bit from time to time
To let me perceive now and then
New realities and or concepts
Like the look of innocence
615 · Sep 2023
haiku 23/9/9b
Mark Wanless Sep 2023
random patterns of
choice was my life here i
am now ha ha ha
614 · Jun 2022
haiku 22/6/18b
Mark Wanless Jun 2022
the monkey in the
picture looks like me
my ears ain't that big
613 · Jan 2021
haiku wanna be 21/1/25a
Mark Wanless Jan 2021
i sparkled a couple trillion
brain cells
one-one thousandth of a second
ago
blue sky and whippoorwill
613 · Dec 2023
haiku 23/12/20
Mark Wanless Dec 2023
peace equals absence
of conflict in your mind
feels like nothing
612 · Jun 2023
haiku 23/6/16a
Mark Wanless Jun 2023
in a think my third
eye opened just a lose dream
awake different
612 · May 2023
i just like it 21/4/13a
Mark Wanless May 2023
the fly carcass stuck
on wall ten years monument
to a life well lived
611 · May 2022
haiku 19/6/17d
Mark Wanless May 2022
the polar bear
stands eight feet tall
behind the bars
610 · Jul 2023
walwalking 19/10/19
Mark Wanless Jul 2023
walking the dog down familiar
   blurry roads

what do i see but i want
   there to be

created a spaceship that flew
   me to mars

followed good soldier into
   evil war

stopped all the killing
   hatred no more
609 · Sep 2016
Grapes
Mark Wanless Sep 2016
grapes
in the ear
taste like grapes
sound like grapes
feel like grapes
for an image i bend
you see twisted lump
of motion
flying
for no reason
feet empty
empty mouth
this empty mouth
tastes like grapes
you will never know
your full fine feet
walk a walk
i admire
in spastic dreams
awake
i prefer
the taste of grapes
empty feet and mouth
grapes
esoteric
607 · Mar 2021
haiku 21/3/4a
Mark Wanless Mar 2021
the powerless dog
lives a very long lifespan
or dies just in time
606 · Apr 2023
haiku 21/1/18a
Mark Wanless Apr 2023
now is just a thing
we do between birth and death
i am among gods
604 · May 2021
haiku 21/5/21b
Mark Wanless May 2021
with a mind lapsed view
we fill the void with our thoughts
just warm splash  no frog
604 · Jul 2019
haiku 19/7/14a
Mark Wanless Jul 2019
i felt a kiss
upon my mangled cheek
valkyrie
viking
604 · Jun 2021
haiku 21/6/27a
Mark Wanless Jun 2021
do not burn the cloak
with me it is beyond the
ken of fay wisdom
604 · Jan 2023
haiku23/1/29a
Mark Wanless Jan 2023
walking the dark night
footprints of something old
softly plodding
603 · Apr 2021
haiku 21/4/24b
Mark Wanless Apr 2021
the call of mountains
in my mind i perceive them
so much a coward
602 · Jun 2022
transient 22/6/9c
Mark Wanless Jun 2022
the tiny dog the tiny dog
walks slowly in my brain
and tells me of ted bundy and startrek
i am the big dog in charge
and leader of the mind
though very uncoordinated
i strive to be free ha ha
don't miss the transient memory
it is all there to see but i
turn away and watch the shadows
on the wall,,,,,,oh so beautiful
601 · Feb 2022
haiku 20/7/16b
Mark Wanless Feb 2022
i am a bear and wall
many things can ****
bear and break wall
600 · Dec 2022
haiku 22/301a
Mark Wanless Dec 2022
i have a spirit
guide i do not listen much
he is so *******
599 · May 2023
haiku 23/5/13b
Mark Wanless May 2023
i saw a dog in
my mind when i was seven
truth profound i saw
599 · Sep 2019
dreamers 19/9/3d
Mark Wanless Sep 2019
as time collapses around me
i feel a melancholy dirge

and call upon a master
not ever believed in

to save me save me a hollow sound
that dances across the centuries

from lips of hopeful dreamers of love
felt real
598 · Jul 2021
haiku 21/7/15a
Mark Wanless Jul 2021
electric current
of soul spirit energy
we influence it

with thought
598 · Apr 2021
haiku 21/4/24a
Mark Wanless Apr 2021
i see the stars in
your eyes as i dream of you
again my sweet love
598 · Sep 2023
haiku 23/9/5a
Mark Wanless Sep 2023
you cast the writings
in the mists of time space mind
you are reflection
596 · Mar 2021
haiku 21/3/1a
Mark Wanless Mar 2021
i want power i
want all power and i will
misuse it greatly
595 · Sep 2023
haiku 23/9/11c
Mark Wanless Sep 2023
young squirrels run on
spring grass fast just new life joy
exhilaration
Mark Wanless Dec 2017
"Sonnets From a Conversation With a Friend VI "


I've told you of my many mind changes
Not just the surface dross, but the living
Core of the root. The blurred symptoms bending
My sight to destruction, the hate of ages
Thriving within, the tainted defenses
Of ego that burned pain with their weak soothing,
This I told you and more. The thorned purging
Of childhood's conjecture, the strength that is
Formed, sturdy and deep, in one days effort,
The acceptance of self, which slow but true
Did lift, this I told you and more. And the vast
Labors of molding the light and dark shape
That frames my world, now glinting a soft burst
Of love's color, this I've told you, and more.
594 · Jun 2016
Dirt
Mark Wanless Jun 2016
foreign tongue fast babbling phone call
to half a world away genetic kin
easy as dirt
like the dirt that owns the blood
half a century away
land of snows and lapis sky
hungry maroon monks incanting
barbaric yawp pujas in
decadent political system
controlling the yellow spirit and red blood
of happy ignorant sad intelligent humanity
of the there then
it's always been like this world
when mighty mao and red army liberates
with bullets prisons mortars torture
barrel of the gun communist truth
rippin tongues out with meat hooks
father of such misery you can not see
they treat everyone like this
not just you         yaa that dirt
Tibet

i was present and hearing a phone call between relatives half a world away, literally
594 · Jan 2022
haiku 20/10/20
Mark Wanless Jan 2022
i saw a small bird
it did not see me at all
i superfluous
592 · May 2022
haiku 19/6/11a
591 · Dec 2020
haiku 20/12/16a
Mark Wanless Dec 2020
are we anywhere
a figment of our own mind
we'll see yes we'll see
591 · Jan 2021
duality 21/1/29c
Mark Wanless Jan 2021
globules of satan's blood drip into
     our souls

(the lies we tell ourselves are
     part of our consciousness )
591 · May 2023
haiku 23/5/27d
Mark Wanless May 2023
empty words in a
pattern that comes to nothing
the zero is sum
588 · Dec 2021
haiku 21/12/2
Mark Wanless Dec 2021
tell me something old
as dirt and mountains and blue
sky    i might believe
587 · Nov 2021
haiku 21/11/11a
Mark Wanless Nov 2021
i saw a demon
in my eye it wanted me
to act i said no
584 · May 2023
haiku 21/4/19a
Mark Wanless May 2023
beautiful woman
revolver pick up truck beer
on ice a true sight
583 · Jun 2024
haiku 24/6/13a
Mark Wanless Jun 2024
the devil sleeps in
a mind and awakes sometimes
imaginary
582 · May 2023
haiku 23/5/25b
Mark Wanless May 2023
you see you feel you
think you choose and that last one
is so difficult
582 · Apr 2023
haiku 21/1/13c
Mark Wanless Apr 2023
i see you in gold
intrepid on the mountain
and a person now
580 · Jun 2022
haiku 20/1/28a
Mark Wanless Jun 2022
reality the fictitious
truth moment by moment
evolutionary
580 · Feb 2021
haiku 21/2/16a
Mark Wanless Feb 2021
the pure hallowed souls
of tribes children behind us
we stand resolute
579 · Aug 2020
haiku 20/8/21
Mark Wanless Aug 2020
cigarette smell room
the scent of *** pounds the air
essence of journey
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