Short Tule Poems

summer ends early
while tule fog saunters east
when the moon falls west

summer ends early
Dorka Keehn-ly glides
with the dawn mist (missed.)...

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The Wind Shepherds

The winds,
 Like shepherds,
Tend Tule fog and dew;
 Playmates
Sliding down sunbeams,
 Teasing kites,
To leap frog
 Over mountains peeking
Into playgrounds
 Ever changing....

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The tree of Tule in Oaxaca, Mexico, is the tree with the largest trunk diameter in the world. Its circumference reaches almost 60 meters and has a height of 42 meters. Its approximate age is 2,000 years.

tens of people could 
take a nap at the same time
the ancient big tree.

Number of t letter - in the above text - is 28....

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(to my prescription lenses)

Without you, the crisp blue summer sky
is a Tule fog. I have no focus.
I wander about, feeling every surface
for a pulse.

Near-sighted in the present,
blurred about the future,
20/20 only if I look behind.

With you, my world shines clear.
In your plain brown frame
I keep you closer than my hand.
Vision of my eyes....

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Under a quilt of tule fog,
dawn whispers
don’t let go.

Two cells merge
one straight, one curved,
forming anew.

The egg of life,
containing all the knowledge
of the Universe.

You and I now,
mixed together forever,
like sugar and salt.

Me and you all mixed up.
An original master-piece,
with a new agenda.

Under a Quilt of tule Fog,
dawn whispers…...

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Mystic River
lazy mists dawdle
 in sinuous rivulets ~
   fog surfs in deep dales

river of white clouds
 threads through alleys of tall pines ~
  fog garden slow dance

curly silver mists
 pale kisses on riverbanks ~
  swirling shape-shifters

flat bottomed clouds float
 wispy fogs tickle thunder ~
 joy ride for cloud ships

mystic tule songs
 gypsy brumes on evergreens ~
  forest singalong...

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