Long Ronin Poems

These were letters written in tablets of blood
We wrote the pains of yesterday today wittily 
On this seaside of swaying embargo of tablets

She was the song swept in pity and cruelty 
Daring the concubines that...

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Powerful in many ways. What can it be to the modern ronin? What if it has more to it than a physical appearance? The mind of the ronin is always changing according to the scholar....

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Raised to believe many things
One which a guy from up high 
Comes flying out that sky that we all see
It had to be literally
Did i believe it?
Without a doubt i did,
 Because the one who...

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At the moment the 7th trumpet blows, Ill be ready. May judgement come. 
We already know the bottom line about me. No surprises, will wrath recognize me? Will my disgust for humanity weigh heavy? These...

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It was a quaint little shop
Looking strangely out of place
And the owner was a hermit
With a crinkled young old face.

He was a man of distinction
Of health hearty and hale,
Had looked a Haggis in the 
Eye...

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High upon this hill of long grass we sit in repose staring off in the distance
down upon the valley and village of our youth
the sun is setting in the sky and I feel its fading...

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Ronin
Forty-seven men,
hereditary nobles,
military samurais,
serving their master,
who was betrayed and killed by
another lord, ronin's, they
turned masterless, schemed
samurai, three years 
spun thieves, mercenaries, and
madmen, delight all
the challenges that are faced,
the adrenaline that is
peaked, did kill their lord
master...

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There is a price in taking another man’s life and
it strikes during the repose of presumed peace
waking screams to the half moon sky jaunted movement startling
calm water reflections deepening self hatred scowling back
in the shining...

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When a body dies there is a split second slackness
and softening in the eyes as the soul leaves the shell
a mutual acceptance by body and that which is beyond
that the partnership has ended
when the soul...

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I wander the landscapes of solitude
Unchecked and unhealed,
Beneath heavens speared with bamboo rain,
A blade on my back concealed
Beyond where the eye can envisage and see,
Deserts burning dry,
Beyond where the temples sink in the dust,
Under a...

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hindsight if only clearer in my future my present
still sitting here upon weathered rock warmed by years
of summers sun only now can I give reflection
to the tree that sways in the breeze ebbing and flowing
in...

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Dishonorable Tao pen,
your fealty strokes 
are guided by 
shogun lust for the yen

Quill treachery 
blot your avarice ambition
Devious calligraphy
be the torn loyalty decision

Vain kimono pride
is bushido vow laid aside
Naked truth disrobed — 
Coin motive 
ain’t...

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I often dream of a forest dark
where thoughts may flow
where none may follow
and stand amidst the foggy bark

The owl's screach as if an omen
so I trudge against the boundless pain
to find my solace where peace...

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In death’s night they come to haunt me
and beg for the years I have stolen
I have denied them existence and still
they plead me to find honor in my own
I have learned to swallow what other...

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Clearly I see you now Death I am not afraid to look
Where were you when the earth ran red
and a thousand men screamed for you to take them
And you sat on mountaintops with generals 
sipping...

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Before I wake this split second of pure white joy
alone in a field of blowing grasses and nothing
No sound no fear no joy no duty
just infinity with the sun and sky and self
The quiet peace...

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