Long Insoluble Poems

Alone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes gathered
in terrible rituals mid fire and smoke
darkening the sun.
From distant...

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It’s like being hit by a meteor
Where there’s no tomorrow
It is like doomsday, really
Where everything is ugly
And absolutely nothing is pretty
I just received the bad news
That my sister-in-law had died
Suddenly and extemporaneously
Without being sick tremendously
I...

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Quotes:  -- "  deus ex machina "

""Aristotle praised Euripides, however, for generally ending his plays with bad fortune, which he viewed as correct in tragedy, and somewhat excused the intervention of a deity...

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Li Bai translations

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



Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain
by Li Bai
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Now the birds have deserted the sky
and the...

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Spirituality is about spirit, 
It seeks to see the soul
To set it free
To savour the bliss of salvation

Religion rooted in religious scriptures
Rules, regulations, rituals
Binds humans
Accentuates egoism

Souls belongs to another realm
It cannot be seen with eyes
It...

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LOST IN YOUR THOUGHTS 

Let not my spring go dry
Let not my sunshine set at dawn
Let not my joy fade at its peak
And my candle never be put out in the wind

Let my brightness rule...

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Let not my spring go dry
Let not my sunshine set at dawn
Let not my joy fade at its peak
And my candle never be put out in the wind

Let my brightness rule the day
Crown my night...

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"Got your fluff again"
(for purpose of this poem
pronounce last word uh gain).

The missus uttered
aforementioned phrase
as she pulled a clump of my hair
from out the clogged shower drain
for no rhyme nor reason lemme explain
how so many...

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Sauna Bath of Love


Magic in her hands’ soft touch electrifies
Reciprocating the wobbly clutch of my giddy spirit 
Sailing in the ethereal vacuum of love and bliss;
While lustful heart with vertigo swing and spin:
Ecstatic soul revelling...

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A silly superstition enwraps and grips me, 
It holds me and will not loosen its vile, crushing deathgrip:
It is a numerical one, this foolish superstition to which I have my subscription, 
For this is the...

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21st Century Version



Falling for a feeling 
my beloved soulmate lifetime partner-husband:

Can’t order it online, nor 
Request it
		a feeling 
                solely...

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Heart
           by Odin Roark

Can an enigma be weighed?

Many would hold the heavy heart
Is indeed noticeably of greater weight

And yet…

What can the heart do
When all its...

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If I leave today
Know I'm in a better place

The pain while dying is quite my biggest fear
Taking xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx trying to relieve some stress
Crying deep within, you'll never see my tears
Life is a gift, but most...

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When the curtains are closed
                      Enjoy a moment from the basement window
  ...

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do you all know my deeds? 
yeah, perhaps but you all know 
my name, 
do you know I am insane, solid 
and insoluble, 
great! Now listen to me and 
judge then, 
do you think I...

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Plagued by the memories of insoluble illusions
that hang on the tapestry of yesterday
where mythological masks were worn
in another time, another place
and are relived in pictures
hanging on my mind's wall of sadness and loss
when dreams of...

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The great hands of fate have squeezed their grip on this infallible date!
Make way, fermenting 7th, for the intolerable October the 8th! 
Far, far away the lone lemur leaps with joy to celebrate-
The great, insoluble,...

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CIRCUMLOCUTION


Today’s problems seem insoluble,
For empty talk is often voluble.


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awake I graze the naked mind undone, 
my contemplations shuffle off to her 
and no halfhearted muse, no not a one 
eclipses her insoluble liqueur, 
nor any stirring of the thoughts distill 
the past forgotten...

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I must admit she’s beautiful.
I see her swagger towards me.
Yet I feel confused.

I am in an insoluble maze.
I am reminded of a marigold.
She loves me
She loves me not.
Bah!  Waste of time.
To love or not...

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Do you worry about direction
or purpose? 
Always stressing over selection
or choice?
And then electing, upon reflection,
to dodge the issue
and hope it will be shown?
It won’t!

Or do you go in for dissection
of problems?
Using logic for connections
and sense?
Just...

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Mother nature

Mother nature why lay me brainless 
In the hand of this fragile insoluble universe 
How can I struggled with inevitable me
I am already sent-down with motive
Divided by land, sea, colour, and mountain 
Mother nature...

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