Tag: Poetry
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Looking Very Old, I Suppose
Looking Very Old, I Suppose I’m oldI know but don’t feelas old as I look this is what ‘old’feels like – to me slower – less flexibleless physical strength less staminamore frequent naps injury healing takes longerbut eventually succeeds eyesight waningfocusing a frequent pain surprised by the ancient guyreflected in surfaces I stroll by but…
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The Man’s Too Strong
The Man’s Too Strongby Dire Straits (Mark Knopfler) I’m just and ageing drummer boyAnd in the wars I used to playAnd I’ve called the tuneTo many a torture sessionNow they say I am a war criminalAnd I’m fading awayFather please hear my confession I have legalised robberyCalled it a beliefI have run with the moneyAnd…
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Quick-draw Meditation
Iaido is the sword-art of quick drawing the katana and striking in the same stroke. It’s an art I practiced as part of my Aikido training, as most of the projection techniques are based on sword movements, the self-defense movements swordsmen used when they were without their katanas. Iaido Meditation eyebrows growing outdroop past nose…
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First Southwest End Of The Loop Ride Of The New Year
Took this year’s first ride down the southwest end of the loop today. It’s gotten even more disturbing. The west side of the river, along the gated condo communities, looks like it’s been vacuumed clean, grated, and raked like a Zen garden. There was not a single piece of stray paper or trash of any…
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From my ‘Winter Haiku Collection
From my ‘Winter Haiku CollectionOr, is that my ‘Wage-slave Haiku Collection’?…; -) # 010 mid January,my cubicle closing in —no help on the way –LE
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Dragon’s Eye Sunset – Haiku
Dragon’s Eye Sunset Dragon’s eye sunsetthe blazing sky ignites trees —with the full moonrise –LE
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Plumbing Wisdom’s Ancient Wells For Truth Or Merely Mystical Persuasion, A Con Job?
Wisdom’s Ancient Wells wells of wisdomhow many are thereonly oneorone for each culturecivilizationcreed orpersuasion how many ‘truths’are thereonly onewho decides“whichever interpretationprevails at a given timeis a function of powerand not truth.” –Nietzsche does it not benefit usto reexaminerethink our sourcesour fundamentalsfrom time to timea healthy skepticism tohelp avoid theentropy of hubris as the old Taoist…
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Arlington
Arlingtonby The Wailin’ Jennys Where do you go little birdWhen it snows, when it snowsWhen the world turns to sleepDo you know, do you knowIs there something in the windBreathes a chill in your heart and life in your wingsDoes it whisper ‘start again’Start again Where is the sun in the nightIs it cold, is…
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Another Look At A Katana Mind, Slicing & Dicing
Katana Mind Ronin YojimboMifune’s tontoSpins in the airLands in crossroadBlade pointsThe wayHe picks it upAnd walks toMeet destiny Yojimbo’s katanaBlade foldedA hundred timesCore soft andFlexible –Cutting edgeHardened and honedSlice throughAnything Katana mind likeYojimbo’s bladeFlexible malleableCore optimisticCutting edgeRazor honedCynicalSlice throughAnything Forging theMind-bladeMeditating openTo nature to lifeHoning theCutting edgeCritical thinkingSlice throughAnything Flip it in the airAt crossroadsIntersectionsDead…
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A Winter Haiku Wednesday
From my ‘Winter Haiku Collection’ #018 Snowblind in sunshine,dark barky spines protruding —sparrow-buds in bloom –LE
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