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Moonlight

...Chakpii!
Wooo! ! !
We have gathered
On grandfather’s stoneseats
After a hurried meal,
This moonlight...

Assemble, children, and hearken
To the tales we know
And heard from
Our fathers...
...

I Am The Blueprint of My Own Quiet Ruin

...The door swells in its frame each winter,
paint curling like old tongues —
still you press it open with a finger,
leaving soft dents in the wood.

Inside, the walls hum from hidden wires;
plast...

because he is her grandson

...her resolve loosened
because he is her grandson
dissipating grudge

his choices not hers
but she cannot love him less
pure true grandmas love...

Interlude - not for contest -

...
         Three dozen or so revelers whoop it up.
       Prince''s signature smash-hit song, "1999"
        Is blasting top volume on loud speakers.
          A rollicking party reaches a fev...

Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Autumn 2

...Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about autumn, fall, falling, trees, leaves, leaving, goodbye, rice, moon, moonlight, words.

Reverential tears:
the falling leaves
bid their trees good...

Echo in deaf ears

...Lost deep in an echo chamber~
where I talked and my eardrums beat ceaselessly,
ricocheting voices of ghosts masked in agony,
tiptoeing faintly,
their feet blurred by the hallucinations roaming th...

Family Values

...Sold on a cheapskate cheesing.
Cupcaked' by a cheesecake reasoning.
Kids, plenty for the 
Cakewalk.
Kids, plenty to play 
Hopscotch.
Kids, plenty of energy goes 
Non-stop.
Disparaging remarks...

A Snowy Day in April

...It was only a sprig
of red berries poking through
a mantle of snow.
But something in their quiet defiance—
so small, so sure, so bold—
stopped me in rushing mid-stride,
as if beauty had broken
...

A child cries in a mirror

...A child's joy was taken at gunpoint
in a long, dark tunnel on a winter night~
as clouds drifted, whispering subconscious fears,
stirred by music played by demons,
loosed like wildfire in a room o...

Abandon All Grace Here

...I wore my sins like velvet lace,
Then set your garden all ablaze.
I never once said I was kind--
I only promised not to mind.

The chandelier you loved? It fell.
I laughed and called it “doing ...

Runner

...b  a  n  g   b  a  n  g!
I couldn't believe I just fired some shots
there she laid...
    belly up
   counting the dust
dead as loneliness buried in silence
trouble b o l d l y stared st...

The law of social thermodynamics

...Someone would rather not speak the truth
After weighing the cons and pros
They're exquisite egoists

Someone dares to bet the causes
Inspectors weighing the pros and cons
Restrict viewers or ba...

The Wind and the Sun

...The Wind and the Sun, oft mentioned in song,
had a quarrel over which one was the most strong.
They argued with much heat and bluster;
the wind about its strength, the sun about its luster.

Ano...

The Swimmer

...

I saw her swim out to where
distance and wave height
made her disappear from sight.
The water still carried 
the last of summer's warmth.

She was where I would like
to be, loosened from w...

END TIMES : ONE

...END TIMES : ONE 

[Poet’s Note : This poem arose out of a play on quote in Bible by Christ : “I will open my mouth in parables. I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world…This is ho...

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