"bao" poems
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footsteps nearing me
why do i get nervous
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wait
i’m alone
my heartbeat again
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i haven’t been sleeping
but i sleep good when i do
lots of dreams lately
but they’re all too realistic
i’ve been daydreaming about vietnam:
i’m following this lady
who sells bananas on a bike
she’s leading me through the bazaar
to find man who sells spice
spice man just cracked a watermelon
the juice running down his hands
the aroma strong, clean
i can’t speak vietnamese
but i wonder how much he’d haggle
on a wedge
this morning on my cold walk
air blew back my rusty hair
i was purposeful tardy
but i was happy
i saw the browned ginkgo biloba leaves
limp by my feet
-they’re lucky you know, the ginkgo leaves
and i wondered if banana woman had ever seen ginkgo
Dec 2, 2019
Dec 2, 2019 at 6:41 PM UTC
The Hurting, - they say some things are worst than death and this is one of them.
Sometimes, in instances of grueling
pain
I think
of being
with the clouds
you made
that decision
&
you’d have
no idea
How much it
hurts.. where
Was your judgement
*** this hurts
More than anything.
&
I’m sorry, you had to
go that way.
The clouds lament
your passing on
clear, sunny days.
They overshadow the
very demon you
tried to escape from.
&
I’ve made a promise
To live for you.
To show you
that it didn’t have
To be this way.
You’re gone forever.
Lost within the fabrics of time
I’ll carry you as a lantern -
inside of me
till the end of the days.
&
I hope you finally can rest.
For once.
Goodbye
Forever
Bao Bao
We miss you already.
Bao Bao - 2000-2018
Apr 16, 2019
Apr 16, 2019 at 9:24 PM UTC
"I have not taken a wife because I do my best to avoid disappointment"
- Jin Bao Seifu "Hundred Eyes", Daoist Monk
Men admire beauty and praise it so much that
they will aspire to unknown lengths
to
assuage and sustain beauties audience...
it is the enchantment of beauty that intoxicates...rare beauty admires
the substance of mutual admiration...
Beauty can conjure and secure
Sovereignty over a mans mind
&
passions...
should one interact in terms of
logical usury and apathetic cold-hearted disregard
Or
chance at tenuous love & possibility of competing passions
Do we conscript our fealty to beauty
by our
bedding and subsequent warm embrace
of
promised security and sustained endurance long after
the twilight of the nights ecstasy
spurning dew of mornings uncertainties
"Young beauty what can you offer a man not made to completion?"
"To lay my softness upon him."
Beauty is Prey Mantis
"Do you now desire a sip"
Dec 10, 2016
Dec 10, 2016 at 3:02 AM UTC
I Saw her name painted upon a stone
Then you told me the legend of Bao Si
Her form as an ageless, ancient beauty
Still alive, breathing in places of love
I have wandered bound within her legend
Spiriting me across stormy jade seas
Walked upon ancient timeless stone pathways
I've taken her to heart as I have you
Enfolded within emerald dreaming
I've envisioned standing on the Great Wall
Then setting ablaze the warning tower
Forsaking all just to have seen her smile
You've told me about the Yunnan mountains
About the precious teas harvested there
The peaceful palmed paradise below them
Gentle winds whisper the name of Bao Si
Beneath the soft shadows of those mountains
In the early morning amber sunrise
Hands held we will share warm tea and kisses
Love in a coy blossomed beautiful place
© P.M.H 2009 Revised 2/12/19
Feb 12, 2019
Feb 12, 2019 at 6:31 PM UTC
dear mr. president do
you know
timothy & bao
ikram & erhard
puja & timon
folami & leonardo
shannon & kavi
kenzō & shaquille
meklit & aleksej
gabriela & hugo?
they all work hard to
make a living
honor diversity america
has been a great team
Nov 23, 2019
Nov 23, 2019 at 12:22 PM UTC