Tag: Poetry
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The Floating World
The Floating World as daylight brightness subsidesthe floating world emergesfrom primal darkness withfairy lights and bright neon as bawdy sensations andpleasures unfold in dreamy scenesreligiously moral superstitionsnotwithstanding — sin if there be any such thing as sinit’s the mental and/or physicalharming or enslavement of ourselvesor any other sentient being(s) – selah the floating world emerges…
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Late Winter Sunday Ride
Late Winter Sunday Ride Brittlebush blossoms explodingacross the landscapewith the pale orange of earlyDesert Mallow here and there no clouds stifle the sunshinethank human artifice for darkpolarized lenses tokeep the glare at bay –LE – 3/9/25
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Who Indeed?
From my first haiku collection … oh, so long ago… Who Indeed? Who in hell can keepTheir minds off things forbidden?Feet crunch detritus. –LE
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Mild Spring Evenings Along The Ohio River
Along Southern Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and West Virginia Another from my Spring Haiku Collection Mild spring evening,Peepers raising a ruckus —All seeking moonshine. –LE
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Heplessly Hoping
Helplessly Hopingby Stephen Stills Helplessly hoping her harlequin hovers nearbyAwaiting a wordGasping at glimpses of gentle true spiritHe runs, wishing he could flyOnly to trip at the sound of goodbye Wordlessly watching, he waits by the window and wondersAt the empty place insideHeartlessly helping himself to her bad dreams, he worriesDid he hear a goodbyeOr…
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Gaia Cries
Gaia Cries Sultry afternoon in SpringTucson-dreamingMeditating Waiting for long-delayedAbsent rains to nourishThe parched land The dry riverbedLanguishing in dustMouth open wide EmptyCrackedDenied As Gaia cries –LE – 3/5/25
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Morning Meditations
Meditating sitting meditatingmorning dovesoutside my windowhoo-hoo-hoooohoo-hoo-hoooowho-who-whooooo sitting meditatingtraffic cacophonya few streets awaybackground staticthrough wind chimesimminent rain signs bathe sunbaked groundswildflowers bloombeside cactus spineshillside climbs can stillhear the chimes resonatingsitting meditating –LE
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Emerald Green …
Anoter from my Spring Haiku Collection Emerald green grass,Few leaves have come to the trees —Earthworms dance for rain. –LE
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Linear Thinking
Linear Thinking linear thinkinglinguistic thinkingour common lotmost can’t seemto rise abovelong ingrainedconcepts thatinfluence ourperceptionsof time andconsequence but what if we’vejust not evolvedenough to perceivereality in thegeometricexponentialdimensionshinted at bythe mathematicsof the multiverseof eternityhere andnow what if eternity universe and/ormultiverse existseverywhereall at oncenow –LE – 2/25/25
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Helloo o — Sol?
An old one from my Spring Haiku Collection Golden willows waveAmidst dark and leafless spines —Summons the sunshine. –LE
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