Best Mono Poems

if Basho’s frog jumps
and no one hears the splash
katydids quarrel


does the sound
of one hand clapping
surprise the wind


cold mountain winds
an eerie sound of echoes
humming to themselves


a...

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Whisper's of October  

Whispers in this soup bowl
20 minutes after its muse explodes,
Daylight remains nothing more than a dream 
Warding off the howling sound...

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cold hands - I search for the warmth of your heart



 For the Mono-O contest hosted by Brian Strand
 Placed 1st
 
 Chosen POTW 15th...

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Where modern Gladiators go to collide
Like solders in prison these warriors ride

Mono el mono this is how they believe
No smoking mirrors or tricks up their...

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Labyrinth paths, winding and twisting, a serpentine meandering,
otherworldly, ethereal, much too dreamy, lost and wandering;
saturnine, long raven sparkling hair that I hide behind, woefully,
tangled in...

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Archetypes flash straight from a pack of Tarot cards
anti-terror Jing Jang synthesis with neuro-spiritual precision
implants explosive animation from the deep unknown
like a taro rootstock growing...

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Life's pieces fit together, one by one.
Inserting them is challenging and fun,
For each shape adds to making of the whole;
Eventual completion is the goal.

Just like...

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Rarely do I glimpse your shadow
Or wonder how you had the gall
I hardly think of you at all

Rarely wish it'll be your hello
Time has allowed...

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FEAR

Feeling tired, washed up, drained
Moody, irritated, relationships strained 
Life’s journey just filled with inevitables
Questions answered in mono syllables

What initiates this fearful  condition
Invades your space...

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The hot savannah in late September 
Too far back to quite remember
Born in plains surrounded by the sands
An oasis of the treeless woodlands
To be uniquely...

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the sunny disposition ~ couldn’t conceal the raging storm within 













Contest: Mono- O
Sponsor: Brain Strand
11/12/2020...

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The morning shown as a mono gray
but the forecast called for a clearing sky
which gave me time to read and pray
The morning shown as a...

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Truth is a fertile feisty feather 
pushed off to the academic side.

More complex truths are feathered climates
within which creative co-empathic minds 
transgenerationally reside.

Owl Medicine:

"At the...

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Down into the valley of socialization
Societal vices thrives without limitation
In my city, moral has worn the clothes of 
civilization
It's value have nosedived into the pit...

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Queen Gaia
of Earth's Shabbat
is here to speak today.

Unfortunately,
she can only sign,
and the only way she can see
is through our DNA/RNA fractally-balancing syntax,
so she has asked...

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