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Commuter Poet Sep 2016
Perfect, round, pink
You rise above mountains
Offering hope and tranquility
To my troubled heart

Every night
You make your pilgrimage
Though often
You hide from me.

Will I see you tonight?

Will I lie with you
Watching your sensuous curves
Drawing me
To your fertility

Will I see you
After my long journey
Will we celebrate at last?

Great moon over Kamakura

Will I see you tonight?
16th September 2016
not much
aging aging
lonely as the rain

O what might have been!
Perpetual the pain

Kamakura Buddha
Kamakura snow

2 weeks in Japan
Yoko yo yo yo yo

          Arigato
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2022
I was raised Catholic
It's the only religion
I ever really practiced
But I have been drawn and drawn -
Time tick tocks on -
To the Buddha
Sitting in silence

Knowing.

Prayers for Taiwan
I stop by the Confucius statue at GMU
Protection!

2 copies of Road to Heaven by Red Pine
Waiting for me at the bookstore
For those who walk the Path of Solitude

Am I an egg?
White on the outside
But yellow on the inside

Or am I brown?
Like my momma Sally Jane

I've got a bipolar brain
Livin' la vida La Mancha, Spain
Ridin' a Downbound Train
Poetry: Good Insane

  Kamakura Buddha in Purple Rain
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2021
I've moved too much, moved too much
Moved too much, I know

Kamakura Buddha
Freshly falling snow

My son is gentle joy
We wander to and fro

A little Christmas gift
New for you yo yo

      little. flow. slow.
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2023
Not doing a whole helluva a lot
Waiting for something that never comes
Bored. Tired. Angry.
Wishing we could talk

Brown Buddha statue
Kamakura snow
O we O we O
53 and falling

Mind on the month of May
54 and forming
Quiet green couch
Long live Lina and Doon!

Death comes for the Archbishop
Si San Salvador
Cam plays indoor soccer
Only silence. Lamplight rain.

                   Beltane?
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2020
Kamakura Buddha
Snowfall in the morning

White upon grey
Who can truly know?

All things pass away
We disappear forever

But to you I pray
Kindness thus and so
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2023
The American politicians are Ignoramuses
Becuz the American people are Ignoramuses
Drive to New York City
Fly to Tokyo

                         Snow!
Ordinary life
Ordinary death
No need for centipede
No need for crystal ****

Life goes on until it doesn't
Kamakura snow
Blazing bullet train
Yoko yo yo yo yo!

                 On we go...
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2023
I'm gonna leave it behind when I die
Will it be discovered?
I can never know
Tienmu. Heavenly Mother.

Kamakura snow
The Buddha silently sits
2nd Noble Truth
Mel, kiss my grits! :)

My boys play video games
Q plays Destiny 2
10 minutes of soccer
Sky still beauty blue

Georgetown all gone grey
I like it yes I do
Jesuits join Blue Jays
Lonergan for few

           137732
The poems are a kind of diary
I've been writing now for years
Just a little laughter
Quite a bit of tears

Vegetarian tacos
Plus a little lime
One brief moment
Everything dies in time

Kamakura snow
Seattle snowfall too
Snow all around
Muslim Christian Jew

3 prayers for Chicago
Dye the river green
My favorite middle school book
Still is Things Not Seen

                   not seen
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2023
So some people are gay
You might want to tell the Church
A gazillion exoplanets
Buddhism in my search

Solitude is peaceful
And lonely as the rain
Tokyo to Kyoto
Upon the bullet train

Kamakura snow
Reno in December
E I E I O
Her destiny is Denver

             I remember ...
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2023
Spent most of my life in the USA
But I prefer Europe 'tis true
Kamakura Buddha
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Would like to see Heidelberg
Would like to sleep in peace
The beauty of the Blue Mosque
Torment of Ancient Greece

53 and falling
Awake in the Night
Rothko blue and green
Holderlin, not Sein und Zeit

             My Mr. Spock kite
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2023
Un Escritor, Un Escritor
And so I slowly go
One man aging damaged
One man to Overthrow!

Titanaboa
Raging Reno snow
Fire on the Mountain
Black smoke yoko yo

Rilke's beauty and terror
Lead kindly light
Small brown chapel
Sor Juana's mystic flight

Episcopaliens
Time is the Cross
Kamakura Buddha
Neither Gain nor Loss

        Viva Tel Aviv!
Hard Zen
   silent
    wait
Qualyxian Quest Nov 2023
Miss you all these years later
It's a delusion, this I know
Kamakura Buddha
Kamakura snow

                yo espero
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2023
the little way
is good for bipolar people
a reminder
steps, slow

Kamakura Buddha
Kamakura snow
I was in Japan for 2 weeks
Train station Kyoto

I was afraid of Facebook
But now I'm often on
My children
My children grow

solitude
quietness
movies
lo!

          O wee O wee O
Qualyxian Quest Jan 2023
The Shinkansen was very quiet
Smooth, steady, calm
In Kyoto the Zen garden
In Gilead the Balm

I found Japan amazing
Eat my bento box
Deer Park in Nara
Mr. Spock socks

        Kamakura clocks
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2022
He said the religious images are resonance
Which is a word I like
Everybody searching
Nobody really knows

Pain in my left elbow
Pain in my mind
Kamakura Buddha
Kamakura snows

Was the call from her?
See if it happens again
Surf Ohio
Dublin flows

Poetry as shared privacy
I let you in
My mind spins
I shows

          Exes and Ohs!
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2021
Lifelong religious obsessions
But I can also let them go

Shinkansen speeding by
Tokyo to Kyoto

Kamakura Buddha
Silently the snow

The mystery remains
No one on earth will ever know.
Qualyxian Quest Feb 2021
grey day rain and ice
no Carolina blue

passed this time for sushi
but Pokemon for you

deer park in Nara
the Buddha taught not-two

snow in Kamakura
ever ancient, ever new
This is a short life
I miss my mother so
Keep her in your care
Toledo, Ohio

Kamakura Buddha
Kamakura snow
Konnichiwa, Rieko
Yoko yo yo yo yo!

A little conversation
Many silent nights
Music on my stereo
Sor Juana's mystic flight

Try to do my best
Just the best I can
Cell phone all alone
Solitary Man
Kamakura snow
        silencio
             yo
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2021
Today is the Buddha's birthday
Suchness, Shakyamuni

I've seen the monks in Bangkok
Kamakura too

The dharma has spread West
Sometimes a little loony

But when i walk the way
I meditate on you

              Europe and Asia
                      Not-two.
Qualyxian Quest Jan 2023
So comes snow after fire
Even dragons have their end
Suffering is caused by desire
Fairy folk my friend

Snowfall shunyata
The Buddha in Kamakura
Shiva does his dance
The devas and the asuras

Honeymoon in France
Jazz in New Orleans
We read the Giver in Taipei
I give Tolkien to the tweens

I wish to live in libraries
Silent, meditative
Don't remember much Latin
But I know one case is dative

Little Italy in Boston
Vegetarian lasagna tonight alone
Friar Thomas D'aquino
All roads lead to Rome

               Ave Maria...
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2023
Nearly 20000 poems
And I still can't reach
Not one step closer
Sleeping on the Beach

Was an English teacher
English I did teach
Cannot give a lecture
Do not give a speech

San Francisco Zen
Bangkok taxi traffic
Rain. Shinkansen
Kamakura snow

Baltimore, muy bien
Kiss her from behind
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6069

       Red, Red Wine
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2023
i was only in japan for 2 weeks so how much can i really know for example kyoto snow kamakura buddha sitting silently we really never glow rieko was quite kind to me rieko y takahiro i dressed up like a samurai on and on we go kyoto school buddhism i told him o yes i know seattle in the summer a raven told me so i too am lost in translation hidey hidey hidey ** miso soup edamame one man to overthrow one man to grow old lonely only lonely grow

                                     yoko yo yo
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2022
If I have hope
It's in the long term view
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The American Empire will Fall
Royal Albert Hall
Beauty Baltic Sea

Kamakura Buddha
Snowfall shunyata
Snowfall silently

Snowfalling on Cedars
Ishmael Chambers
Teacher teacherly

      Intentionality
I've been in therapy
It helped a little bit
The therapist listened well
But then I had to go

I am a troubled soul
Never quite at ease
Kamakura Buddha
Kamakura snow

Sleep well, my darling sons
Dream of destiny
Ordinary days
Wander to and fro

Candle in the wind
Rain upon the window
Mist in the mountains
One light does glow

             Yoko yo yo!
Qualyxian Quest Jan 2021
it's truly a ******* country
in a ******* ******* world

the Trumpfucks raid the Capitol
Trumpfuck flag unfurled

Kamakura Buddha
silent in the snow

just a few years
then forever gone we go

     Ay yay yo!
Qualyxian Quest Oct 2023
The bipolar brings grandiosity
So help me, little way
Movies, books, music
Solitude, xie xie

Winter is coming again
October, November, snow
Reno with my sons
Kamakura yo

          Staunton aglow
Qualyxian Quest Mar 2023
I'm growing fond of my little town
Help me listen long and better
Now she knows, One man Overthrows
I simply never could forget her

I'm a lonely, troubled soul
In search of I Don't Know
Kamakura Buddha
Seattle cedar snow

Have been both blessed and cursed
Am quite afraid to die
She dances and she Frances
Purple goes the sky

                 I Thai Wai
Qualyxian Quest Feb 2023
So maybe they dismiss
A freak. A Geek. Gone mad.
I need help, Ms. Susan Meek
My brothers and my dad

Timor Mortis Conturbat Me
Dread Annihilation
She holds me and I cry
Temporal salvation

In my solitude
This is my year to wait
San Francisco Zen
Tea at the Dragon Gate

Sans everything
One man come and go
Kamakura Buddha
Seattle cedarsnow

          37 below
Qualyxian Quest Oct 2023
What was it about Father Greeley?
Combative, creative, Chicago
I was 22
Kamakura snow

Mario Cuomo
St. Ignatius
Cornel West
Overthrow

               Staunton aglow
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2022
I do wanna die grateful
I really really do
Gratitude for 3
Gratitude for 2

Movies my whole life
Star Wars when I was 8
White Nights at 16
The Batman of late

In but not only America
Uppsala, Kaoshiung, Rome
Oxford. Ancient Things.
Wander far from home

She calls to me in Silence
She I cannot see
The snow in Kamakura
The rain in Italy

        Morrocan Mint Tea
Qualyxian Quest Mar 2021
Japan was amazing
Rieko so very kind

Kamakura Buddha
Sitting buddhamind

Snowfalls silent
Silently i find

Memories of trains
And Staunton lost in time
Qualyxian Quest Jan 2023
Like you, I dream of destinations
But there's no place really to go
Probably freaked her out
But finally told her so

The Kamakura Buddha
Roof washed away in water
Exoplanets spin
Do aliens have daughters?

My son got detention
But he wasn't really vaping
Stalin's Red Army
Pillaging and ******

Flee American schools
Play basketball in the park
The USS Indianapolis
Sailors devoured by sharks

                   Karma!
Qualyxian Quest Jan 2023
Quite a few right wing racist hater Jews
In these United States
Wolfowitz, Shapiro, AIPAC
The hour is getting late

Boston is icy in winter
The Museum of Fine Arts
The Count of Monte Cristo
Not Napolean Blown Apart

Lebanese bread in Jerusalem
Korean Kim Chi in Tokyo
Sweetly Swedish summer
Kamakura snow

     Ignorant Americans: they Overflow.

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