Long Miso Poems

Every day you awake you need to give thanks, I am the past
and the present; You are the potential.
I am the essential.
You are the future; I am the now!
I am the reality in that order...

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The poetry of the COVID era (read to the end)

Thai pineapple rice. Wonton and Yaki Soba
Tortufo ice cream. Scallopini veal, halva and also soda
Tamago, octopus and yellowtail. Ribs, pasta fagioli.
Meat lover’s pie, sword fish, big...

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part 2 of 2

8 No Love in the Heart of Town

Hot summer day
Fetty Wap heavy rotates
Done pretendin' to find a God charades
Besides feelin' not havin to try, nothin's changed
Jumped in 1 after another place
Robbed different...

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Poetry Soup Is…

A place to post words and be heard
a platform for prose, a poet’s eatery
A sonneteer’s palace, for the sagacious or the absurd 
A silver chalice that pours golden poetry
Rhymed and skillfully quilled 
Artful...

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37th Floor
Shiodome City Center
The Japanese Secretaries 
Stand in unison
Upon my arrival
All for me
You shouldn’t have
But thank you

180 degree view of Tokyo
900 square miles
10 Million people
All walking in unison
To a tune I don’t understand
I will never...

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Did I ever talk about my changing moods?
They dive off a cliff - I don't believe there's any diagnosis required unless anyone wants to certify that I'm human

Where was I five minutes ago?
Where will I...

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I was at Resto Depot today for 
 lunch. I had a miso noodle salad 
 with an Avacado scooped out with two
 scoops of crunchy veggie or no veggie 
 balls . they had...

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~ Sndita ko Muslim ~
·
Badn khalalayami
a Biyaloy a sndita
o bala tano sa ingd
a ophoon ana mbto
na sndita so Muslim...
·
Na ba ini babago pn
a oman pha paromanan
i andang dn ko ingd
a lagid a Pilimpinas
a kilidn so...

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Bowled over, kneading you, feeling sub-lime
from my head tomatoes. Hear my heart beet!
Eggcited, wonton you olive the thyme.
Donut you carrot all for me at yeast?

You’re one in a melon, sweet sugar pie,
forbidden fruit I find...

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