Senryu
A
riptide lounge finally closed
bleary eyed reveler
seeks new gin mill
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B
midnight carouser
sings the blues come morning
piper’s price paid in full
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C
modern hipster
admires exaggerated reflection
in cracked mirror
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Haiku
A
tipsy midnight stroller
wanders hither and tither
under moonlight
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B
winter’s lack of bluster
on the sunkissed afternoon
sleeping season
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C
skyscrapers
piercing cerulean skies
lazy clouds dance below
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D
dirty snowpiles
hidden gutterpup
quieted sentinel dreams on
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E
pigeon’s gentle cooing
atop graying tenements
cat bides time
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Hello Old Friend,
Just where have the years gone to?
Remember some of the shit we used to get away with back in the day?
apple-flinging, sometimes over four story buildings, other times through windows
pellet shots, here, there, and everywhere, no stranger to ducking under fists and flying bottles
no rhyme or reason…….just typical neighborhood stuff
Being in altered states….
just about every weekend
bottles for every reason….in any season
Roll another spliff mate? some kind of weekend warriors….
monday mornings still slapped reality into our red eyes and blurry minds
We both straightened up
managing to clean up and get married,
who would have thought…..or believed?
thirty years ago……when we were kids just out of high school
swear that we knew everything…..about everything and anything
Twenty four years
since your move to michigan
i can still recall watching the car pulling away
It’s been a long time between goodbye, farewell, and handshakes
why are the last words still so fuzzy?
in times of difficulty,
i will still recall your favorite saying:
‘sometimes you just have to ask, what the fuck?’….with that shit easting grin
It seems to still make the leap into the unknown and uncomfortable
just a bit easier……
And only in the last year
did I finally hear of your passing
Our paths were forced to split there
Some find both peace and forgiveness in the journey forward
others doomed to live on in memories…..graying yesteryears.
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Poetic Fragments
Only
in my tranced reverie
to do battle
‘gainst
n’er do well hooligan
dancing past
sottish angels
in
fields of screaming daisies
above
the snap and snarl
of
buzz-bombing
whip-poor-wills
apocalyptic choruses
from darkened caves deep
imploring
jump, jump, jump
but, I welcome
all of the
scoundrels,
half-baked,
imbecilic,
bollixed,
virtuous,
banal,
sullied soul knaves
and
brain damaged cretins
one and all….
all quite welcomed
in the end,
fearing only
a much more familiar
somber place
of gray and quiet
a land
of
no dreams
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Senryu
stolen innocence
frozen historic moments
jaded yesterdays
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Poetic Fragments
millions
of thoughts and words
perhaps
none the mightier
than
those not spoken
unheeded
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Bullets for Innocence
speeding projectiles
callously taking lives
language of the land
elimination
a blind eye turned
negotiation
a deafened ear learned
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