The Beautiful Drowning
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"The Beautiful Drowning"
Barefeet
dancing in the sand
the warm ocean licks
insolent toes
to its command
whispers its secrets
calling us in deeper
indolently caress...
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Categories:
icehouse, muse,
Form: Free verse
Zen Death Haiku
...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 ...
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Categories:
icehouse, age, autumn, bereavement, death,
Form: Haiku
Crapuscular
...I sat upon an old stump,
Nautical twilight swelling like dark cotton,
As brown leaves swirl'd in an autumn breeze,
Piling around my leeward boots,
A sound, good memory from childhood,
The sound ...
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Categories:
icehouse, depression, life,
Form: Prose Poetry