Curse Of Being A Human

Sparrow pecking at
A piece of bread,
Does not worry
About what's ahead,

Unlike me, consumed by
"What if?" and "Why?",
The sparrow only thinks
To eat, mate, and fly...

TGIF

Start the day with carbs
And coffee, get wired,
Head into work all
Determined, inspired,
But 10 hours later,
I'm just damned tired...

山の神

Something, Japanese
Understand too well,
Take care in the mountains,
Where demons dwell...

Equinox Spirits

Clearing the weeds around the grave,
Communing with ancestors, as the
Higan-bana bloom and gently wave...

秋分の引っ越し

Perhaps, sensing some minute shift in the
Humidity, the heat, the angle of the light,
The greens pack up their bags and depart
The leaves, in slow, steady, silent, flight,
The greens soon replaced by immigrant
Families of orange, yellow, brown, and red,
The cool whispers hints of the coming cold,
Where the greens went, unknown, unsaid...

     

青年の反抗期

A parent will control and protect
Out of love, and a deep fear of
Dangers, the child cannot detect,

But young ones will rebel,
Strain against the limits and
Stays, give their parents hell,

It seems so sad, so wrong,
That the fighting is exactly
What makes the children strong,
For they cannot hide, in the
Embrace of home, for long...

The Human Condition

Time spent in the vertical:
Reactionary, stressed,
As opposed to horizontal,
With its dreams and rest,
The vertical day, a fight,
Against gravity, until
Surrendering each night...

Glide Slope

What the young ones, the eager ones,
Need to understand,
Is that it's not what you aim for,
It's where you land...

無我夢中

Quietly swept by a daydream's
Whirlpool, into a special place,
Where imagination has the
Ability to ease and erase
Tension, tedium, but then suddenly,
Vanish without a trace...

The Appointment

It awaits, implacable,
Abstract but all too real,
The peaceful minutes it
Can't distort, it will steal...

Stability In Granite

The words carved into the old
Stone, bordered with moss,
Weather worn words, in the
Shadow, record an ancient loss,
Memories on a rock, which
Will not crumble or rotten,
Which will not tumble down
Into the dust of the forgotten...

    

Vanishing Point

Life is like a road,
Long and winding,
Walk, search, but
Never really finding
What you thought
You were looking for,
Your journey fraught
With friction and more,
Life's road, a graveled path,
Leading, declining, to an
Unexpected aftermath...

Stargazer

The wise man understands the curse
Of sentience, and searching for
Meaning, in an empty Universe...

It Keeps You Running

Eventually we succumb,
To numbness, to slumber,
To what we are running from...

Transition

Empty September sky,
Pine tree silent, missing
The cicada's cry...

The Morning After

The painful result
Of a bad decision
Made in the absence
Of adult supervison

Refugees

Away from cruel bloody Syria,
Into a boat, and onto the waves,
Casting our fates, like a roll of
Dice, hoping it somehow saves
Our lives, hoping we will reach,
Somehow, a safe-haven beach...

９月病

Summer sparrows bathe in the dust
Beneath a heat-tired Sakura tree,
Sun setting into tropical night,
Bell crickets trilling magically,
No hint yet of the day-end cool,
Which will arrive, inevitably...

無

Meditation is when
I quietly imitate a plant,
Dissolve myself into Zen,
Breathe in, breathe out,
Repeat it, again and again...

Migration

Abandoned swallows' nest
The owners flown away
Somewhere to the southwest
Away fron the typhoon rains
As summer glowers and wanes

First Love

It happens instantly,
First glimpse of her face,
Loins start churning,
Forgetting time and space,
All miraculous and burning,
Dreams become haunted,
By someone you didn't know
You needed, or wanted...

Advice From A Fjord

Get in the boat,
Do not think,
Just drift and float...