Best Rainless Poems

Rainless clouds are drifting by
As I stand in solitude,
There in the dark deep grey sky,
They mirror my somber mood; 

As I stand in solitude,
Sunless clouds...

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Be the river of my rainless desert...
where the coldest and the wildest wind swept;
ah, it took away the harmony of my tunes:
once the only comforter...

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Unearth me,
sift my confusion through your eyes,
dilute my anger with the moist of your lips;
graffiti my skin with prayers of trust;
grind my fear into a...

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The dark cloud lifted to find ourselves on the global stage
In spite of the stage fright, we united into a fist of courage
The arable land...

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Like a mad man
without a plan,
slightly insane,
dancing in the rain,
pixilated dreams
like shallow streams,
leave me bemused,
restless, but amused,
but my soul is tried
from those bullets fired,
when loved...

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Listen to the shifting winds 
carrying musical meteors,
there soars floating
letters between 
lyrical lines,
emanating runes
that reflect 
revolving rhymes
of faith within
and beyond.
For we are more than
just spectators...

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good morning of day
tailor birds chirping out my window
mild breeze flowing

dawn of the white diamond
golden sunshine from the far sky
a piece of your smiling

fair and...

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On a starless rainless night 
'fore my eyes... 
The last of the snow-hill, 
Wind-blown... 
Melts

Left...
Is wet-marks, 
On cobble-stone 
Till, the next snowflake...
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Drops...

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Cricket - Haiku

missing legs and sound
forest, rainless storm rages
remembers cricket...

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This city has seen dry days,
the injustice of rainless-ness with strengthening rays.
June’s just begun to threaten with waves
packed in pavement pounded by feet
hidden in cracks...

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Zen Death Haiku

Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
you were my life!
—Shuho, translation by Michael R. Burch

Returning
as it came,
this naked worm.
—Shidoken, translation by Michael R. Burch

As...

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(Shakespearean)

Against the sky, the weathered land now sinks
as water pours its force upon the earth
'til mossy glades become the tattered links
between the ocean's rim and...

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Distance separates the pleasures
Of a touch never meant to be kissed
Once lost in void filled rainless
Clouds like tomorrow rewinds  

As yesterday feasts upon my...

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Black Cricket

Black cricket moves along the forest floor
Soundless with no legs
Lost them in a fight along the food chain
A predator, a mantis, is somewhat nourished
Cricket...

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Wind, word, sail
The helm is turned
On the oar of the tongue
Against the tide of laws
The righteous cause
Will its litany and prevail
O could the dock
Materialize again
Out...

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