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Zen Death Haiku Ii
Today, catching sight of the mallards
crying over Lake Iware:
Must I too vanish into the clouds?
—Prince Otsu translation by Michael R. Burch  

This world—
to what may we compare it?
To autumn fields
lying darkening at dusk
illuminated by...

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Categories: overgrow, death, imagery, life, nature, symbolism, visionary, world,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member My Thing Is
My thing is,
Yang dear,
EarthMother
is much RNA-green older
than mammalian red-DNA Yang.

Yes,
seniority breeds long-term nutritious merit,
I remember this history lesson
from your creation by fairy tale,
how WinWin Paradise YinYin
wonder invited Yang's Patriarchal CoPresence.

Well said,
dearest,
which is exactly why EarthMother
needed...

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Categories: overgrow, color, earth, health, history, humanity, integrity, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Zen Death Haiku Ix
ZEN DEATH HAIKU VIII

These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. 

Since I was born, 
I must die, 
and so …
—Kisei (1688-1764) , loose translation/interpretation of his jisei (death poem)  by...

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Categories: overgrow, age, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst, animal, autumn,
Form: Haiku
An Old Movie
all the wild in it's wisp and brood.
fly nature in and scented skin.
fell silently her silk new bloom.
back in the arms of the one she calls him.
lay on clouds of pull and press.
arms of brambles...

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Categories: overgrow, loveold, old,
Form: I do not know?
When Your Garden Dies
As the flowers wilt…
 
You think of the things you couldn’t give to me
When all I wanted was time

 I look in your sunken blue eyes-
 the years wasted hanging in the bags 
And the...

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© Ann T.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overgrow, mother, garden,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Woodland
In the forest where the sun beats
 upon trees that have stood over time
Battered for years withstanding the elements
 each season bringing a new look to the ever changing landscape
Becoming  home to  millions...

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Categories: overgrow, naturesun,
Form: Free verse
As the Road
Outside the group that's outside the box
seeing inside the outside Im shocked
how you shape our fate as it knocks
on imaginations and what they concoct

My dream craves standards, but they take work
here efforts actualize ideals
tough labors...

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Categories: overgrow, business, dedication, fantasy, on work and working,
Form: Lyric
A City of Drugs
I watched as you toddled, giggled and played
dancing around with the new friends you made
crying for plasters when you grazed your knee
my little angel- the whole world to me
as you grew older I saw something...

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Categories: overgrow, bereavement, childhood, death, drug, giggle, god,
Form: Free verse
An Ordinary Fellow
An Ordinary Fellow 





I am just an ordinary fellow

I have no need for show

All I know is a simple life

Yet I know I will still grow



I have no need to think big

I just watch life...

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Categories: overgrow, introspection, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
Peace
let there be peace in our homes
and peaceful images that feed
desire to hope
let there be assurance in our tones
illuminated by a knowledge of religious diversion

let there be an overgrow of enthusiastic
love in gladness for one...

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Categories: overgrow, inspirational,
Form: Blank verse
When I Have to Open my Eye
When I have to open my eyes, stop own
To remember what the dream is,at sour
Gigantic hot gulfs in heart blown
Where ebbed fathomless sea, feels sore.

The memories going on my mind,
That are from years left behind,
Very...

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Categories: overgrow, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things