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Qualyxian Quest Jan 2023
Leonard Cohen saw the Future
Maybe I did too
Little prayer for Taipei
Carolina blue

Vegetarian tacos tonight
Edamame for my son
Rieko held him newborn
At Taipei 101

Sometimes profane the sacred
Sometimes revere and cherish
I do pray to the statues
But do not attend the parish

My ordinary life
Boring, but gratitude
My joy in my three sons
In my solitude

                     3!
Budding Dirt Oct 2017
ANG'O MOMIYO PINY MABOR? Agoyo erokamano Ne Nyasaye mosewara kuom tuoche,dhier kod masira.Kendo daher mar goyo erokamano gi chunya duto ne ji duto mosebedo ka konya kendo tala e yore mag rieko gi ngima.Ndikoni en achiel kuom weche masetemo mondo andik ne joherana kendo ji duto ma puonjore yore ngima kowuok kuom weche ma andiko . Nitiere ndalo moro mane asandora malit bang' akweda modhuro ,kendo ndalo mang'eny asetemo wuok kuom mibadhi gi masira go. Omiyo ne aneno kit dhano kane chandruok omako chunya,chandruok mar manyo rieko.Ji mangeny ne oweya kagiwacho ni gik matimo ok kare,ji matin ahinya emane obedo piny mondo owinj gimane chando chunya.Jogo duto agoyonegi erokamano. Omiyo kane andiko gigi chunya ne gombo mondo ji duto oyud rieko kawuok gi gik ma awacho gi. Ji mang'eny temo mondo oyud gik piny gi yore ma ok ber,an agoyo erokamano ne ruodha kuom taya e ler ka adimbora mondo abed ng'ato ma an kawuono. Andiko wechegi mondo uyud ler kowuok kuom puonjo madieri.Piny ka ok nyal res gi muma inyalo rese gi thum gi ndiko.Omiyo akao kinde mondo andik weche maneno ,ka pogo oganda e pinyka. An ajaote.Kik igoya lero nikech apogora gi mibadhi gi miriambo.Ruaka uru e chunyu,kendo ukao kinde uwinj weche matemo pimo. Ne Ji duto marito ndiko ma asebedo kandiko ndalo mane apondo e **** dhano,beduru mana gi kwe nikech chunya nikodu machiegni,aherou. -Synopsia mar Piny Mabor,Budding Dirt. "As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all, we must dare to fail. You must have the courage to be bad - to be willing to risk everything to really express it all."-Budding Dirt My mind is a sea of monarch butterflies. That flutter, all hella haphazard and disordered. As delicate as rice paper. And impatient. No matter how I chase them. I cannot catch them. Because while I’m clomping through the brush, swinging a net and crushing the seedlings, they are dancing from flower to flower, unperturbed by my pursuit. Flittering in the sun like the skittish memory of a dream in the light of day'-Budding Dirt
Qualyxian Quest May 2021
Nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide
Nothin' to do
I lie in bed inside
Once I walked in Stockholm
In Tokyo I did ride
Bullet train into the night
Rieko was the bride

            Arigato.
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2022
Leonard Cohen saw the Future
Maybe I did too
Little prayer for Taipei
Carolina blue

Vegetarian tacos tonight
Edamame for my son
Rieko held him newborn
At Taipei 101

Sometimes profane the sacred
Sometimes revere and cherish
I do pray to the statues
But do not attend the parish

My ordinary life
Boring, but gratitude
My joy in my three sons
In my solitude

                     3!
Qualyxian Quest Feb 2021
remembering Rieko
on Valentine's Day

Staunton to Baltimore
Tokyo to Taipei

you held our newborn son
we took Shinkansen all the way

all these decades later
arigato and xie xie!
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 Dec 2022
Tried to show Judi
Highway 61
Tried to show Rieko
Taipei 101

Not many friends
At times the isolation
Anxiety attacks
Silent meditation

Ludwig Wittgenstein
He too was a teacher
Astrobiology
Extraterrestrial creatures?

Drama in my mind
Boredom in my days
Fray Juan de la Cruz
Santa Rosa. Santa Fe.

       Dorothy Day
Qualyxian Quest Jun 2020
Tokyo train
Gentle rain
     Rieko.
Qualyxian Quest Jan 2019
Qboy dancing with Lee-tal’s cousins
late into the Tel Aviv night,
driving back from the ceremony
to Jerusalem

The jazz club in Tokyo
after the ceremony,
gratefully talking with Rieko and Takahiro
thrilled to soon see Kyoto

Yes, Rabbi Hillel, every bride is beautiful.
Qualyxian Quest Jun 2021
Taipei 101
twilight blue
       You.
Qualyxian Quest Nov 2021
Me: How do the students do here with Spanish?

Spanish teacher (from Mexico): They do well.
The Koreans and the Taiwanese are good. But the Japanese are the best Spanish speakers.

Me: Why?

Spanish teacher: Because you pronounce vowels the same way in Spanish and Japanese.
Qualyxian Quest Mar 2021
Nothing ever achieves being
That's what the Zen masters say

It's like we try and try
But then we fade away

Beware the Jabberwock, my sons
Remember Callooh! Callay!

I can't forgot those taxis home
From 101 Taipei

Silent Buddha
Silent pray.
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 Mar 2020
Cucumber sushi roll
      Midnight's broken toll
                     Arigato!
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2020
Words are lies
Goes the Japanese proverb

Hence
Silent meditation

I was there
For Rieko's wedding

Amazement!
Fascination.

Kamakura Buddha
In the open snow

Mr. Miyagi teaches
Daniel he does show

I miss you
Tonight Rieko

Arigato
Tokyo
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2020
Two weeks in Japan
Rieko's extreme generosity
Giving us enough money to travel
For the entire stay.

The silent speed of Shinkansen
Deer Park in Nara
Kyoto temples

Tokyo fish market
Tokyo jazz clubs
Tokyo umbrellas, trains, and rain

Jaw dropping amazement
Ah! I don't wanna home go

           Rieko and Takahiro
                      Arigato!
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2019
memories
of strolling Japan

snow on cedars
Ishmael can

cherry blossoms
Rieko and

wonderment
on the shinkansen
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2020
Rieko and Takahiro
Visiting in Taiwan

Rieko in Staunton
Her beauty lingers on

Asia is politeness
Asia is the rains

Asia is my childhood
Asia is the trains

Fantasia is the music
Whales sing mystic strains.
Qualyxian Quest May 2019
Tokyo to Kyoto
Upon the Shinkansen

Now in Carolina
But I remember then

Rieko’s generosity
Gave us traveling yen

Not really a question of if
More a question of when

Will I too disappear
Like I’ve never ever been?
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2022
Women are unkind.
They don't teach you this
In 9th grade biology
You have to learn it yourself

I was excited to see the temples
But it is actually the train station
That I remember from Kyoto
Finnish architects

Avoid the company of women
Counseled the Buddha
Still. Silent. Sitting.
Wise.

I also remember the jazz club in Tokyo
Rieko and Takahiro
Me sitting
Just one of the guys

              (I still tries)
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2019
wedding in Tel Aviv
wedding in Tokyo

memories I retrieve
though I have to slowly go

travel is a joy
so much I didn’t know

for Lee Tal and her husband Shai
Takahiro and Rieko

                        happiness
Qualyxian Quest Nov 2023
Snow Falling on Cedars
               Rieko
             Arigato
Qualyxian Quest Feb 2021
an essay tonight about dog parks
peaceful. happiness.

i miss my oldest son
distances distress

rode the bus through town
post card to Japan

Rieko, she's a wonder
Takahiro is her man

Sophia, in Tokyo,
I try to do the best I can.
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2021
Rieko and Takahiro in Tokyo
Leetal and Shai in Tel Aviv
Susan and John in Durham

   All brides are beautiful.
Qualyxian Quest Oct 2022
72 microseasons
Nippon summer nights
Rieko y Takahiro
101 in lights

Kobayashi Issa
Born on June 15
Slowly, snail, slowly
Irish eyes are green

   Arigato, Susan Darlene...
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2023
.............Rieko............
My funny Valentine
             Kyoto
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2022
Fantasies that don't come true
The twilight sky blue fades
He reads with me. He really do
Taco trucks y lemonade

Fantasies that don't come true
But I wish her the very best
Some good thing to do Maru
Before i take my rest

                      Rieko!
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2021
The Trump years were disturbing
Not quite over yet
America the Ignorant
But the sky still lonesome blue

2 weeks in Japan
Rieko is a wonder
Silent Shinkansen
Kyoto knows the crew

Starship enterprise
Are we not quite alone?
I'd like to die at home
Sleep ever ancient, ever knew

Thank you for my sons
Quiet calls for Cate
Hope but not for us
Still to do the best we do

               Mr. Wu
Qualyxian Quest Oct 2021
I can endure the solitude
I even kinda like it

But when the loneliness comes hard
Just wanna bumpsetspike! it

My fantasies are female
But reality is blue

Charlotte and Bob in Tokyo
I once went there too

         Rieko. Takahiro. true.
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2020
Red Pine speaks
Of a world without words

Awake at Night
I too have heard

Taxi twilight
101 Taipei

Goodnight Rieko
Arigato, Xie Xie
Qualyxian Quest May 2023
I was in Japan
For 10 or 11 days
Tokyo to Kyoto
Dressed up like a Samurai

Lost in Translation
Snow Falling on Cedars
Rieko and Takahiro
Shiva's third eye

I like miso soup
Snowfall shunyata
Edamame for my sons
Salmon teriyaki for I

Tokyo to Bangkok
Motorcycle taxis
Som tam. Panang curry.
I Thai Wai

                 Ry.
Qualyxian Quest May 2023
Charlotte and Bob and philosophy
Tokyo at night
I don't smoke cigars
Rieko and Cate and I

Shenandoah Shakespeare
The Tempest in winter's snow
Maybe 22 below
Nashville and I and Ry

Soren Kierkegaard
Truly devoted to Regine
We at the Tivoli Gardens
Hey hey my my

Heloise and Abelard
All those medieval Cathedrals
Susan in the Rocky Mountains
Ay! Ay! Ay!

              Without a Why

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