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533 · Jan 2021
haiku 21/1/13b
Mark Wanless Jan 2021
can there ever be
more positive expression
consciousness than you
531 · Dec 2023
haiku 23/24/1
Mark Wanless Dec 2023
i am absent just
not empty not gone
when empty not gone
530 · Aug 2023
haiku 23/7/13d
Mark Wanless Aug 2023
i don't play the game
of what if or maybe
i fall into the day
529 · May 2024
haiku 24/5/4a
Mark Wanless May 2024
white pettles on ground
heavy trees with rain present
path i now do walk
526 · Aug 2016
Free i
Mark Wanless Aug 2016
Siren screaming warning
fading away     i'm happy
to be alive but the thorns
hurt sometimes like fire ants
in Florida with Palmetto bugs
just really big cockroaches in
Hawaii they are pets and even bigger
like the native gals be gentle baby
doll one eighty five going up
and up to the stars the dreams
of children touch god come from god
are god triune stabbing this that is
in the **** to cause movement
is conscious something or other
soft green leaves with sharp edges
flying liquid rock globs on the mountain
black black black ocean deep
wish i could go there in my mind
but for real they play for money
and we pay and pay and pay and wonder
who's the boss believe it or not
no one is is to scary for some
to accept and i'm writing expository but
where are the images well i'm on my way
to find out hope i get there i know
i'm going to enjoy the journey
free i i i i i
526 · Apr 2021
haiku 21/4/22a
Mark Wanless Apr 2021
the cold winter bite
i am tracking the prey close
bear killed i shall ****
523 · Aug 2016
A Wonderful Life
Mark Wanless Aug 2016
A wonderful life is not coherent
No linear course can span the all
From 20 till now, a course unimaginable
Yet hear we are, compassion trying to express itself
        despite the illusions.
Forgiveness is not a lie, to stop is to stop
Therefore it has stopped, a comfort of feeling.
The journey is my road, traveled by me, and
Everyone else in the space/time/mind continuum.
I am the sole owner of love, as i am the sole owner
        of fingernails.
522 · Aug 2016
Give It Up
Mark Wanless Aug 2016
Giving up the honey on the razor
Blade      for the nectar of the mind      giving
Up the honey on the razor blade      for
The nectar of the mind      giving up the
Honey on the razor blade      for the nectar
Of the mind      giving up the honey on
The razor blade      for the nectar of the
Mind      giving up the honey on the razor
Blade      for the nectar of the mind
Giving up the honey
517 · Feb 2024
haiku 24/2/9a
Mark Wanless Feb 2024
i dream of a day
when pain shall no longer be
oh so like a child
my mind grasps blindly
516 · Oct 2021
haiku 21/10/4a
Mark Wanless Oct 2021
one of the poets
on planet thinks their shakespeare
which on is it   ha
516 · Oct 2022
haiku /10/6b
Mark Wanless Oct 2022
the specter was child
and they dreamt a mystery
i listened and learned
513 · Dec 2017
We
Mark Wanless Dec 2017
We
"We"

I know my share of troubles
        I own them all today
Its a price we pay for breathin'
        And its each in his own way.
No runnin' from the pain now
        There's no place left to hide
When the weight of life is heavy
         I need people at my side.
With caring hands that hold me
        To help me through the day
And a warm and human shoulder
        As I cry my blues away.

Our pain is not the devil
        Nor a hated curse of man
Its a common tie that binds us
        Through the colors, creeds and lands.
Now some have trouble walkin'
         And some are halfway blind
Yet we can help each other
        To a gentler state of mind.
We know our share of troubles
        We own them all today
We can let go of many, and
        Live through the ones that stay.
511 · Jun 2022
haiku 19/11/17a
Mark Wanless Jun 2022
i saw the dog on
the road with
extreme mange
511 · Mar 2021
haiku 21/3/7b
Mark Wanless Mar 2021
the dogs of life they
they tell me what to do please i
want to be of pack
haiku
511 · Mar 2024
haiku 24/3/5a
Mark Wanless Mar 2024
obscure and abstract
memories of love so soft
i just walk to you
509 · Jan 2022
haiku 20/11/3d
Mark Wanless Jan 2022
do you walk upon
water the exigent wet
do fishes know swim
507 · Sep 2023
haiku 23/9/26b
Mark Wanless Sep 2023
angels of heaven
torture a mind to persist
in the realm of god
507 · May 2023
haiku 23/5/6a
Mark Wanless May 2023
the self created
demons can be self destroyed
pyschology 1 0 1
506 · Nov 2017
Work The Slow Work
Mark Wanless Nov 2017
"Work The Slow Work"


Work the slow work of diligent accomplishment
In the only now that does exist
Chimeracaly  no forced coercion can prevail
Relatively we bend and sway and break with fads
Hatred commercial excitations selfish desires
****** reflexive static cyclic molecular physics
Birth death birth death birth death
Ultimately i do not understand          therefore i am
506 · Sep 2023
haiku 23/9/1
Mark Wanless Sep 2023
the crickets in the
night out the window create
patterns of peace mind
503 · Nov 2020
haiku 20/11/23c
Mark Wanless Nov 2020
dog  dog breath  dog ****
smells like security now
in days of our need
502 · Aug 2016
Totally
Mark Wanless Aug 2016
Long ago i saw you
Altogether      one      walking in my head
You were stabbing yourself in the arm
With a knife
I was eight years old
I loved you then      totally
Beyond conditioning      totally
Beyond words
501 · Nov 2017
Clouds of Thought
Mark Wanless Nov 2017
"Clouds of Thought"

The muse arrives with familiar ease
And illumines the realm of inner view.
Quietly births a soulful breeze
Forms clouds of thought in purest hue.
How lifted do I tread and plod,
Humble receptacle, servant of God.

Each mortal frame a joy contains
That soothes the soul and heart to find.
A healing balm for worldly pains
A heavenly cleft from beastly mind.
Oh, how honored do we tread and plod,
Humble receptacles, servants of God.
498 · Jun 2022
Untitled
Mark Wanless Jun 2022
haiku 22/6/16

i see a pale horse
grazing on grass in field so
peacefully
Mark Wanless Jun 2023
**** you you justly
neutered mongrel and the hand
that is up your ****
498 · Sep 2022
haiku 22/9/1a
Mark Wanless Sep 2022
you must like this poem
if you do not like this poem
experience peace
498 · Sep 2023
haiku 23/9/16b
Mark Wanless Sep 2023
what we call gods
do not care they
do not exist
498 · May 2023
free 19/12/31b
Mark Wanless May 2023
the simple folk surround me

the terribles astound me

i wonder which i am some times

and walk among the free
495 · May 2023
haiku 23/5/2a
Mark Wanless May 2023
the meaning of the
silence is silence and i
am not even here
494 · May 2024
haiku 25/5/13b
Mark Wanless May 2024
i saw a vision
or reality squirrel
sitting still on grass
494 · Jan 2022
haiku 22/1/9
Mark Wanless Jan 2022
haiku 22/1/9

common stealth of a
dream moving to the hidden
i awake to soon
493 · Dec 2022
haiku 22/12/19?
Mark Wanless Dec 2022
its all a matter
of an emptiness that falls
up to a nothing
492 · Oct 2019
funyu 666 19/10/12a
Mark Wanless Oct 2019
why are there so many lawyers
in hell, the priests
have to have someone to talk to
492 · Nov 2022
haiku 22/11/5
Mark Wanless Nov 2022
saw a small tornado
felt a small earthquake
i am small blessed
492 · Dec 2021
haiku 21/12/21c
Mark Wanless Dec 2021
heard a single voice
illusion is reality
ignorance manifest
491 · Dec 2017
Wet Green Rock
Mark Wanless Dec 2017
"Wet Green Rock"


The wet green rock
That is our world
Floats round and round
A flaming torch
That sends its rays
Through cold dark space
To warm the air and land
And thus is formed
The womb and tomb
In which we live
Our mortal days
And pained we dream
Of other realms
To lay beyond this sphere
485 · Apr 2023
haiku 21/2/7b
Mark Wanless Apr 2023
do it in your head
conscious do it in your head
**** the dogs of war
485 · May 2023
haiku 21/4/16a
Mark Wanless May 2023
a life a life an
innocent life we were once
ha ha i love you
485 · Aug 2016
The Witch
Mark Wanless Aug 2016
Ever follow a witch to the witch store?
At times I felt her see me in her head.
An unholy manifest riven in brain chemistry, a pore
For consciousness to flow through, into dead.
484 · Jun 2023
haiku 23/6/23a
Mark Wanless Jun 2023
the water is low
the sun  beets down forever
all  frogs to sleep
484 · May 2024
haiku 24/5/5a
Mark Wanless May 2024
empty black beans can
full of cigarette butts the
smell is unnoticed
482 · Sep 2023
haiku 23/9/12a
Mark Wanless Sep 2023
dreaming of buddhist
monk i am not even close
i write poetry
481 · Oct 2024
haiku 24/10/12b
Mark Wanless Oct 2024
there is nothing wrong
with human nature this is
just the way we are
480 · May 2022
resounds
Mark Wanless May 2022
sept.22,18

residue of thought
my life resounds
in my head
a circular
Mark Wanless Jun 2016
Ultimately we own mere illusions.
This my opinion which you do not like.
Tough! I don't care if your karmicly thick
Mind confined does heroic contortions
To affirm. I don't care if your wispy
Aggregate dreams a Himalayan self
Poor ******* son of Santa Claus. I laugh
At your ***** soft logic, dark, faulty
Twisted, and stillborn at the lip. Live your
Pain to its fullest shape, suffer your thought
Completely. I ask only from this heart
That if you choose, reach to me with hope for
Help, that i may gently lend a hand free
Of pretense, as you have done for me.
479 · Apr 2021
haiku 21/4/24d
Mark Wanless Apr 2021
dog my friend my dog
he is master i love him
we **** together
479 · May 2023
haiku 21/5/23a
Mark Wanless May 2023
the devil walks the
shores of a deep black ocean
my mind is the cause
478 · Nov 2019
haiku 19/11/3a
Mark Wanless Nov 2019
not a leader but
sideline observer
happy revelation
475 · Feb 2024
smokey eyes 24/2/18b
Mark Wanless Feb 2024
the generation of knowledge
a task an event a time period
birthed in ignorance
no future thought just now
over and over creation here
the window of memory closed
on the thousands who first
built fire understanding nothing
except burnt fingers smokey eyes
475 · Feb 2022
haiku 20/7/16a
Mark Wanless Feb 2022
the world saved my life
i owe i owe it's off to work i go
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