Farewell Introspection Poems

Jamais Vu ~ "The feeling of being unfamiliar with something that is familiar. The opposite of deja vu."

These days, life is shroud in a fog...

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Running fancy free into a field,
Chasing butterflies my path revealed,
My arms outstretched into the sky,
I am so happy--not caring why.
Cooled by a fragrant soft Spring...

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Dark clay breeds seeds of discontent,
Broken cries fills eyes of swollen red,
The field of dreams beyond my reach,
My world of words the elected dead.

It's time...

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Chinese translations Li Bai

These are my modern English translations of Chinese poems by Li Bai, who was also known as Li Po.



Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain
by...

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In memoriam I forgot who I am
In my mind, in my soul
I just don’t know
Who we are?
How can I focus on memory?
When I don’t even...

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The Police wrote a song called Roxanne,

About a boy in love with a “woman of the town,”

There are times when life’s circumstances,

And the loneliness of...

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Oh, gentle rain, I let you go,
Your cleansing touch, I no longer know.
But in my heart, your memory remains,
A symphony of sorrows and gains.

And tears,...

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Panicked trips down the rabbit hole goes as follows,
Far beneath the depths and hollows.
Way before first breath of plaque,
Meaningless so void and vague.
Til death you...

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Going to the Land of Long Ago

Somehow, someway
Many years hence from today
Will I feel myself unraveling,
Unraveling and traveling
To the Land of Long Ago?

What will leave...

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#IT'S TIME TO TAKE INVENTORY...

ITS TIME TO EVALUATE CERTAIN CATEGORIES...

JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING TAKES UP SPACE, DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN IT SHOULD...

OBTAIN
MAINTAIN 
REMAIN 

IN YOUR SPACE, NOR...

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Every night, the train's melody unfolds 
Its resonant hum, a whispered cosmic sigh 
In the depths of sleep, its secrets it holds 

Time and existence...

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I leave behind my cherished gift of Love.
It is the incarnate as a beautiful spirit soaring from above.

Remember me when my life recedes as my...

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Please don't bury me
By Michelle Morris
12/01/2023

Please don't bury me under that apple tree
So beautiful and abundant
It needs space for life to experience
Its shade and soft...

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"And though scars are the roadmap of my life, 
I drink from the deep blue cup of sky."

       ...

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Impossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment

alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly 
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit; 
ofttimes imagined as time thief.

Hence...

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