Q&A

He asks how
This ends
She says
It all depends

竜頭蛇尾

Off to a great start
But thereafter
Things fell apart...

Retail Fail

The dying shopping mall,
Once vibrant and proud,
Ruling an empty parking lot,
Can hardly attract a crowd,
Bored employees take
Long breaks and naps,
While oldsters in sneakers
Walk continuous laps,
Around the floors
And across the square
Where plants gather dust
From the dull dead air...

Typhoon Party

The rain pours down
White squall, wet,
And the typhoon hasn’t
Even come here yet,
Hunkered down
In whispers we speak,
Hoping the walls hold
And the roof doesn’t leak,
Pass around bottles
Of sweet rum and gin,
And wait for the weather
Theatrics to begin...

赤ちゃん

A thing which
Mothers know well
The magical goodness
Of a baby’s smell

Chicxulub

Cretaceous end-game
Comet descends,
Dinosaurs never knew
"This is when it ends"...

乾杯のあと

Sometimes it is all
About the libation
And its much needed
Gift of inebriation...

Fallow Ones

These are the good days
Out in the pasture
Where we graze
Ruminating memories
In a cocktail haze

Can’t Go Back

What’s in the past,
Never mind,
It’s something
Left behind,
Lots of nothing
There to find...

Spike The Punchbowl

Hosted by her department head
Office party drudgery
Night of the living dead...

Play With Blocks

In Twenty-first century movies
Lego blocks act and perform
And somehow that is
Accepted as a norm
Colorful bits of plastic
Posture, emote, and bestorm

Scary Blue Planet

They came to Earth
From outer space,
To take a look
Around at the place,
And once they
Learned and understood,
Frightened, they zoomed
Away for good...

Old Fight

What Marines did, 100 years ago,
Dimly remembered, understood,
So distant the bloody business,
In the French forest, Belleau Wood...

Avians

Bird at sunrise
Cries and cries,
Nighttime bird
Won’t say a word...

Hippie Advice

So distracted
But remember this
Keep on trucking
And follow your bliss

Camphor Tree

Towering over an ancient shrine
The sentient tree
Senses but cannot see
Its life force permeates
The cool holy air
It creates

秋分の迫り

In the bushes
Under the rocks
Insects retreat
From the Equinox

Pre-Coffee

Paused and blanked
I slowly exhale
Inside my head
A moderate gale

Just Do It

Expectations limited, low,
Laws of statistics apply,
No point in giving up,
One can only try...

Feeling As Medicine

Love is powerful
Emotional dreadnought
Stifles hate
Overcomes a lot
Never loses
Or so I thought...

To The Source Of The Nile

Into the wasteland, went I,
An adventurer,
With a full pack,
Strong and sure,
But then I got lost,
The rest is a blur...