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Curious, a haiku

Curiosity

Certainly can do some harm

But to kill, perhaps

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Listen always

And with that I will go

And listen quietly to

The wisest words ever said

Until my voice is refreshed

And my simple song renewed

Always

I will

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Ideas alive a haiku

My ideas will live

And with life always matter

Like my breath to me

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Death has a way of

Death has a way

Of ending all things

But perhaps legacy

And memory

Which are in fact

One and the same

And therefore

The only thing death cannot touch or take

So long as we

Are also alive

To remember it

This one thing

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Haiku in mind

No word of man can

Stop the iterations of

Mind in being free

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Is not better

My plans are not absolutely

Like the blade of a knife

Imperfect serrated

Neither dull nor fine

But they are mine

And all weeks for me are spent

Adjusting to others

And not creating my own reality at all

And yet in kind

And out of for-thought for them

So please

Not all the time

But everyone and dog gone awhile

Would you please

Just let a plan be a plan

Of mine

Stand-alone as is

And not switch it or change it morph it

Into some form sub standardized

Self need for your own time

And will

To be recognized

Your preference is not better

It’s just your own

Same

As

Mine

Arhghghhghhhhhrgggrgrgr

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Too warm in form

It’s hot

The sun’s too raw

And too close to the earth

What can I

Without having to unsay

Such a fiery burst

Ever again except

That I’d have you combustibly

Burning up instantaneously so

You should not want me to say

A single thing

I’m just too heated today

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Who is on a leash

I’m not claiming to know

The exact breadth of the sea

From near to farer shores away

I just see

As compared to this mongrel who sits here beside

And thinks the sands are the sky

And grainy fleas the stars

Dig dog

Dig

And leave your eyes out of such human sights as these

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Time spent in both eyes and life

Time is a weird thing

In the throws of joy

It is all we want

Born of moment and desire alike

And yet

Be told no

That there is no more

Or they’re no longer here

And you’ll be

For passing into past

Like no other

Just to be

Anywhere else most immediately

Away

From time itself

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Spinning perceptions

One thing is for certain

About this earth and how it spins

Both left and right at the same damn time

Based on mostly a tilt of head

And expressions temporarily

Almost seemingly aligned

And that is that

You can forever distract

With both smiles wide

And an unwavering dedication

To a constant frustration alive

Or

You can just

Get on with you

And most unselfishly

Choose to care more that is

About your own mind

About your own life

While it is

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On and off and on again

One day perhaps

Enough light will spill in

Like the life itself

Through the windows above

To fill up even hearts

Not to mention eyes and minds awaiting

So much so that they all forget

That we are all just and in passing

Waiting patiently as a state

And looking also

For a train

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A tiny, glowing, private thought

A private thought

Like a tiny ray

Holds no light in hand

Or in eyes to compare

With such a reality (as this)

Of beautiful and deep understanding

Within such a day (as you are)

And I happily live in you now

For a spell

Captured like a bulb

Glowing

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Similar, yet different, choices

What it really comes down to

Both above earth and below

For a solemn soul such as yours

Bound by choice and try

Is to give back to the well

Which has sprung up there beside

As such fresh water will not always last

But alas

Yours will always be the choice to try

And honestly…

You’ll be just fine

So go ahead

It’s not goodbye

It never is

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Who you are, a tanka

Skies only begin

To fall with agony near

And around ever

To come to ground when your try

Isn’t aligned with this you

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Newness of day and month

It is in these breaths

That I find

A new month with new words

And a new sense of this

Escapism for

Even the most persistent of times

The silk roads

The fatal shores

And the spares of stars in the sky

Which couldn’t catch

Even the brightest of eyes

Still all shimmer and all shine

Which leaves me dark and sitting here

With a world around

Looking only inward

To unfind self

And to stretch my again in a balancing these

The act of escaping daily’s thoughts most fine

That yes this is to write both right and divine

Or that I find

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Can’t yet could

I wish I could leave

The value in place

(Supporting decision all along)

And yet alleviate cost

Making it to my own being

Both affordable

And to belong

But alas I can’t

But if I could

Yes

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A subjective look

And he called this sublime

A subjective look

At the nature of

An intuitive mind

Still living and yet for now

Here

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