Category: Poetry
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Hotel California – Reimagined
Hotel California reimagined for traditional Chinese Guzheng | Moyun Hotel Californiaby Eagles On a dark desert highwayCool wind in my hairWarm smell of colitasRising up through the airUp ahead in the distanceI saw a shimmering lightMy head grew heavy and my sight grew dimI had to stop for the night There she stood in the…
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When the Sun Goes Down
Another reprised poem from the past year of this blog When the Sun Goes Down when the sun goes downtime to loose the soundlet the music rollfrom windows and stagesall over town dance in moonlit courtyards sylvan groves and barsbodies sway in synccommuning deep inLuna’s silvery sight rhythmic enchantmentenfold us till allpassions are spentand sunrise…
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Black River Mystery
Another reprised poem from the past year of this blog Black River Mystery down in the Black Riverfloodplain not far fromcattails and clumps ofriver-birch, snuggled inwith rag-weed, QueenAnne’s Lace and St. John’sWort sits a square patchof young five and sevenfrond-leaf plantings sixfeet high, approachingharvest strength – perhapsnext week where did they gobig mystery of the…
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Fallen
Another reprised poem from the past year of this blog Fallen a minute till midnight in a court of ruined wingswhere no kindness goes unpunished and hell is empty as the crow fliesanother man’s moccasins the dark horse junkyard dogs death without company and a serpent’s tooth illustratethe fix the fallen the last miledry bonesredemptionthe…
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Solar Water Reclamation
Another reprised poem from the past year of this blog. Solar Water Reclamation Sparklingreclaimed waterslowly flows northin the edge ofthe otherwise dry lowerSanta Cruzthen to theGila and eventuallythe Colorado sun glares offacres ofsolar arraypoweringthe reclaimingengines disgorging thereclaimedreconstitutedamniotic fluidof life as predatorand preyobserve fromshadow-gorgedhidey-holes andshade-camouflagedcreviced walls and I stare at the arraywonderinghow it got this way dry riverbedspoisoned blue…
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Our Modern World
Another reprised poem from the past year of this blog Our Modern World Oneconcentration of wealth, power, and freedoms in the hands of privileged classes,fear mongering, the old ploy,makes for easy control, brow-beat the masses. Twoconform and obey, your patriotic duty, ignore any protests, though justified, condemn civil disobedience – all, science, an enemy, facts…
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Fireflies and the Frost Ninja
Another reprised poem from the past year of this blog. Fireflies and the Frost Ninja firefliesthe magnificent ninea court of frostand starlightof troubled bloodland of wolves the ninja’s bladethe finishersilent wife orkept womanspirit of steamboator any other name don’t dare a dameseamus in a skirta ninja’s daughtergathering of ravensmercy – from evildeliver us court mist…
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Metaphysical Glimpses
Another reprised poem from the past year of this blog Metaphysical Glimpses life and deathwhite and blackyin and yangwaves and troughslight and darkinside and outsidethe universe and I two sides of the same coinpoles in the same eventa game with no winnerif one side winsexistence ends endings and beginningsall exists simultaneouslyeach implies otherlife and death…
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Iaido Meditation
Another reprised poem from the past year of this blog Iaido Meditation eyebrows growing outdroop past nose and chinshakuhachi notesswirling in the wind bird song behindwater droplets fallingreflecting-pool rippleswhile koi blow bubbles single cut with myquick iaido bladesevers blossomand stem silk scarf pared in two as it slides down the razor edge of mykatana’s molten…
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Art and War Drive Technology
Another reprised poem from the past year of this blog Art and War Drive Technology Art and war notthe Art of Warby Sun Tzunecessarilybut maybeare the driversof technology inevery age war in its searchfor efficient and devastating killing and subjugatingtech against any who oppose the ‘righteous’ established ‘natural’ contrived order art seeking efficient techcopy and…
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