Tag: micropoetry

  • epiphany

    tok tok tok --
    raven tapping on the
    fog filled street

    [originally posted on sceadugenga.com, June 22, 2020]

  • delusion

    waking up from dawn's
    dining table daydream
    to the rattle-bang
    of mourning doves
    trying to fly into
    picture-window suns

  • throwing hands

    why write poetry at all
    when there is the wind
    that carries 'hallo hallo'
    of the crow, high up in
    the cottonwood tree, to me?

    i throw both hands away
    and reply with the same

  • 2º. mono no aware

    knapped flint night
    knapped flint day
    marrow deep kisses
    underwood decay

  • falling still

    silence falling in white
    were i made of sterner stuff
    i might sit in stillness outside
    until it covered me whole

  • ephemera

    these words and thoughts --
    naught but cherry blossoms
    drifting downstream

  • synaesthesia

    your winter taste
    in dreamkiss
    paints me in din
    let this shamble sing
    in threes without waking

    i never want to leave

  • tides

    to sit of moon and indigo
    waiting on her pale and ebon 
    beyond the veil of sleep

  • echoes

    these words are just echoes,
    pebbles thrown to the pond—
    brave sakura riding the ripples

  • feast

    paper tiger encouragements
    feast on the ghosts of we
    entangled in our entitlements
    tethered by our broken dreams