Ink Ronin
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Dishonorable Tao pen,
your fealty strokes
are guided by
shogun lust for the yen
Quill treachery
blot your avarice ambition
Devious calligraphy
be the torn loyalty decision
Vai...
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Categories:
bushido, allegory, imagery, perspective, words,
Form: Verse
Kiai Fire
...Samurai writer
Bushido inspired
Katana withdrawn
Edge hardened by fire
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2017)...
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Categories:
bushido, war, writing,
Form: Rhyme
I Ronin
...True patience means bearing the unbearable
Once I
Lived
bushido
At Heart.
Served my lord,
Wielding carbon
And steel
In fidelity.
Cast aside,
I have
No master now.
I will not tas...
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Categories:
bushido, change, devotion, freedom, identity,
Form: Free verse
Samurai
...The Samurai warrior stands unassuming, quiet, and fits in to the background on any occasion,
Each month is a month of new life, gales rush and sound over the tops of trees, he listens,
His life is on...
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Categories:
bushido, philosophy, nature, nature, integrity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Hara Kiri: a Letter
...This summer breeze
upon my menacing blade,
no kaishakunin, only emptiness,
empty mindedness,
unafraid
The Hokkaido seas
restless like a school child,
stir within my cup of tea
empty mindedn...
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Categories:
bushido,
Form: I do not know?
Ipsofacto of { Fear
...Ipsofacto of { Fear
Call yourself Christian
Call yourself Human
Call yourself Mohammedans
Say you are Sufi
Say you are Wicca
Say you are Krishna Marti
Be nailed to suffering
The messag...
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Categories:
bushido, natural disasters
Form: Free verse