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when you are in love
throw down your walls completely
and follow your heart
Senryu
a cold wind blowing
snow manes on the mountains
snug in my teepee
Haiku
Moha is at the confluence of the Bridge river and Yalakom river where the Camelsfoot mountains meet the coast mountains. I camped there in the winter many years ago with a beautiful french canadian girl named Yvonne. It was 20 below weather, but the teepee was very comfortable.
this is who i am
neither better nor worse
than anyone else
Senryu
She sits on her bed clothed in your shirt
Though covered, she feels exposed
She dare not look at the floor
There she will see your ghost

Glass litters the floor
Everywhere she would walk
Pictures of you and her
Grabbed and thrown from the walls

Sobs rack her body
All while she digs at her chest
She attempts to pull out the jeweled dagger
The one you so soundlessly, delicately left

Slowly you pressed it in
Little by little, inch by inch
When you walked away,
You gave it one last good wrench

Her eyes cry out her life blood
From the dagger you so deftly placed
Buried too far in to remove
Blood flows as tears instead
Me and you and poems

Ages ago i used to love poetry
I could write anything
Anywhere any time
Even my dreams consisted of poems
I would wake up middle of the night
Looking frantically for paper
So the poem that had formed in my dreams wouldnt disappear
All i would write about was you,
Me, me and you, and us
My poems were happy with
Those few moments we had spent together
Poems that contained fragments of memory in them
Of me and you walking together
They were happy poems
They'd make me smile and blush
And then i stopped and the happy poems stopped
Me and you, we stopped
I dont know why but after that
There were no more poems
I had nothing to write about
Poems as i knew them had to have
Smiles and laughter and love
I didnt have that with you gone
So i stopped
But then you came back and
The poems started again
And here we are
Happy again
Everything is beautiful again
But now theres question in my poems
An uncertainty a lack of trust maybe
Will these poems ever stop again
The pine tree of Shiogoshi
Trickles all night long
Shiny drops of moonlight.
Autumn moonlight--
  a worm digs silently
    into the chestnut.
caterpillar crawls
inching slowly towards the green
silently transforms*


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