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November Days

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While November pleads with the heart, a sense of pure praise stills the light, comforting the rising rhythms of trembling beats, the cadence of autumn seeping into winter… by poet

In the d...

Sienna in Season

...I was a productive, proficient painter, long captivated by the manifold colors,
An infinite parade of hues and intensities, like tales of a thousand summers.

I worked daily at this irresistible p...

Maradona

...Maradona, ice palace princess was more formidable than we knew
Her reputation was startlingly modest, said the soothsayer, Lou.
She led the dragon brigade in January, stated snowy owl, a friend.
H...

Precocious Images

...PRECOCIOUS IMAGES

 power
to astonish
primped& glistening
 closely engraved
in a
narcissistic
  preciousness
subtle
 laced with
  arrogance
substantial
  boasts
  engaging conceit
  in...

Fig Leaf

...What does autumn sunshine gloriously reveal?
When the sun sets too swiftly in the west keel
When a breeze said, "Sweetheart, I admire you."
Now moan the dying chords of the gloomy view...

A Private Portrait

...A Poem-A-Day:

And today, by the way, 

I so badly wanted to envision a sunlit sail, 

the sunlight on the sail that has just manifested like a dream sifting through a partially clouded sky, pe...

Never Underestimate Your Dragon; He Might Become a Great Professor Someday

...An abandoned dragonling I did find,
I took him in and built a metal shed
for this dragonling to lay his head;
he grew to have a profound mind.

When dragonling was about four,
books ...

Summer Nights

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I smother my face 
In the coolness of the nighttime breeze,
Gently chafing my cheeks
Singing its nocturnal lullaby,
And the soft creaking of my rocking chair
Adding to the melody

I watch 
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Stripped Naked

..."Stripped of a physical body,
[individualistic] mind stands naked,
revealed startlingly
for what it has always been;
the architect of our [shared] reality."
Sogyal Rinpoche

Stripped of a spir...

Would Anyone Mind

...She is young, startlingly pretty. He notices her when she takes a chair.
Be with you in a few, he tells her.
Look at the samples if you like.
She picks up photos of his art and begins thumbing thr...

The Missing Season

...The Missing Season
27/07/2020 

Whiffs of summery air grow startlingly unfresh
Dying like a withering dream yet almost deathless
Ruffled by an impasse of a senescent, uncrossable viaduct 
that ...

I Should Run From You

...Cunning and tricky for a youth of today 
I was a fool to fall for your playful way
I should cut my visit but I don’t know how.
For your furious apology is a startlingly wow. 

Quit looking at pi...

Flowers Are Special

...Flowers are special; 
even weeds often have
startlingly beautiful blossoms 
that make one forget about allergies
till the first sniffle
or watery eye…

So, what are we to conclude?

That som...

Yosa Buson Translations

...Yosa Buson haiku translations

On the temple’s great bronze gong
a butterfly
snoozes.
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Hard to describe:
this light sensation...

Things I Fear At This Second

...Things I fear
Bobcat’s cry, toddler’s sniffle, quick run of a mouse
Startlingly startling
Things I also fear…
IV pokes, trying when you have no clue.
Going blind.
No basis for some
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