Long Kyoto Poems

Hellboy danced with the best of them,
With a record here, though incomplete...
Winning almost all of the time,
What a miraculous feat!


Date Opponent Location Result
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XXxX Hecate L (fatality)
2004 Rasputin W
XXxX osiris club W
XXxX Witch L (fatality)
XXxX Dragon...

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City Skin

    A city can be so close, 
    enclosing, 
    familiar, 
    that it leaches into one’s soul,
    becomes...

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3.   At the Cabin

("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version of a well-known Noh play.)

(The Chokugan  =  a...

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I was not thirty yet, and it was fall.
My wife and I were touring in Japan
While on our summer break from teaching school.
Our luck, our parents lived to grow us tall,
And modeled health and art...

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6/1/22

Been in a chokehold
This world can be so cold
Lucky if you can grow old
Often things shook up like a snow globe
Do you know what it's like to have no home?
On the population a government spies,...

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Notes on this Poem
I am not a bleating liberal, nor do I wish to upset America. But when I am in England sunbathing in 75 degree temperatures, when it normally is snowing at this time...

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METRO BOULOT DODO  -  GOING HOME AFTER WORK



Bobo               going home to a clown
Cocoa      ...

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4.   Murasame Starts to Relate the Story

("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version of a well-known Noh play.)


MATSUKAZE & MURASAME...

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("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version of a well-known Noh play.)

1. The Buddhist Priest

This was the day of the White Crane....

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Pipe Dreams

Though I have a woman’s heart; it pounds with
dragon’s fire. Curled about the core of self, 
I have lain in wait for Asia with claw, and horn.

Linked-locks and keys have spined beneath my hand
upon...

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Once upon a time there was a son and his mum
He wanted to marry and mother agreed in a glum
But asked her sunny to show her a photo 
Of  that heart fighter from Rome...

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Decaying wooden temples,
Frozen in place by garden paths
That tie them to the earth,
A virtual spider’s web from the air.
Foliage jealous of the sun
Reflecting back its colored hues
Of sunrise and sunset,
In a last blue holding of...

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Winter

Snowflakes crowd the sky
tumble in silence to earth
their journey ended.
           ***

Note:
   The old 'Sanjo-ohashi Bridge' spanned the Kamo River to Kyoto, the former...

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On sun's golden edge where
Upon a night of silver tinted winds
Moon slips down on earth's slope
And rugged boughs of a dry cherry tree
Stretch out of an ancient village
And grab moonlight's silky sleeves
Before it is too...

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I meandered through the muddy Mekong
Searched in sultry sexy Saigon
Ravished in the Cat Thien Rain forest
Yet I still could not find you

I found myself haunted in Hong Kong
Caught up in the cacophony of China
Trailed my...

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The rooms lie low and hollow,
perforated by two stone gardens
enclosed in the center.
A lone hard chair hides in the corner.
The tatami mat, brown and warped,
gently springs beneath my steps;
this house only welcomes 
travelers passing through.

But...

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rain soaked sakura
beguiling beauty burgeoning...
blushing blooms cascade

Written 21st May 2019

SECOND PLACE
Contest: Writing Challenge 3, May 2019, Nature Haiku
Sponsor: Dear Heart

*sakura is a Japanese word for cherry trees and each year in April they burst into...

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(The Kyoto Protocol, an international
treaty signed in December 1997, commits
member states to reduce their carbon
dioxide emissions.  The United States is
the only First World nation not to ratify
the treaty.) 

Spend it, squander, swill down, swallow,...

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