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Poetry, Lyrics, & Doggerel, From A Six-Tatami Room, South of Tokyo, Japan
Random Rhymes From An Expat Living A Long Way From Home
Thursday, December 31, 2020
Fizzy
Instantaneously transported
From the glum now and here
Through the magic of drinking
An ice-cold beer...
Hello January
New Year’s Day spent
In solitude
Quiet, somnolent
Smell The Flowers
Be aware of your happiness,
Lest it fall through the cracks,
Don’t miss the fleeting chances,
To sit down, smile, and relax...
横須賀うみかぜ公園
Perched up above
Seahawk and crow
Looking for targets
Among the picnics below
Average Days
Things sometimes don’t get better
But instead just stay the same
Nothing lost in the process
Not much need to complain...
The Opening
Gaze across Tokyo Bay
At the rising Sun
Cold clean breeze
A New Year begun
Rocket
If there just was a way
To launch up from here,
Into a pure, unfettered,
Atmosphere,
Above and away
From the hurt
Of our lives down
Here on the dirt...
Elton John - Rocket Man (Official Music Video) - YouTube
Monday, December 28, 2020
Our Condition
Humankind
Morally cursed by
Blind leading the blind
Truth lost in a mist
Yet happy to be
Fat and hedonist
Agriculture's Curse
Jomon hunter-gatherer lives
Were hard, but simple, nice,
The problems came later,
When they started planting rice...
Unsure
It had to be seen,
To be believed,
But what did it mean...
Provisional
High hopes for a new year,
As a bad year ends,
Will things get better?
Well that all depends...
Saturday, December 26, 2020
Unavoidable
Pre-dawn minutes, peaceful
Dark and still,
Don’t want to wake,
But I know it will...
Thursday, December 24, 2020
Alien Sky
Strange oval clouds look like
Flying saucers, UFOs,
Shaped by the magic
Way the winter wind blows...
Creativity
Ideas intertwine, epiphany, fusion,
To produce something precious,
Out of beautiful confusion...
Monday, December 21, 2020
After The Longest Night
Solstice morning, gloomy chill,
Dry empty city street,
Crow pecking at roadkill...
Sunday, December 20, 2020
Election Year
It started out as a
Political debate,
But the losers
Decided to litigate,
Adversarial democracy
Descended into hate,
Leaving no choice but
To insult, equivocate...
Misfire
The attempt at humor he used,
Was somewhat ironic-sardonic,
But she was not even slightly amused...
冬至の日暮れ
Solstice shortened light,
Dims in the cold arrival,
Of the year’s longest night...
Friday, December 18, 2020
D.C. December 2020
New day for the sleepwalkers
Of the leaderless Deep State,
Q-Anon’d and hacked, frayed
Hubris oblivious to their fate,
Talking heads continue to talk,
Politicos walk the cynical walk...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
生き甲斐
Ironic that the work
Of trying to survive,
Somehow defines
One’s being alive,
Joy interspersed
With bruises, aches,
Obstacles each day,
But you do what it takes...
Getting Over
A refusal to accept
That she is gone,
No point in lingering,
Just move on...
Sunday, December 13, 2020
おはようございます
Early morning housewife
Wake-up energetic
Rooms come to life...
For A While
It gradually
Occurred to me,
That happiness only
Happens, momentarily...
Variation
Hard to explain
How joy and sadness
Wax and wane...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Mirror Image
TikTok, Facebook,
Instagram,
Is this really
Who I am...?
Defeated Denial
The loser, despite the shame
No matter what the cost,
Won’t leave the arena,
Won’t admit that he lost...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Retail Apocalypse
Leaves from unattended plants fall,
In the courtyard of the dying mall,
Customers, once many, are gone,
Shopping on their phones with Amazon...
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Image by Mark Harm Niemeyer
Far Out (By Philip Larkin)
Beyond the bright cartoons
Are darker spaces where
Small cloudy nests of stars
Seem to float on the air.
These have no proper names:
Men out alone at night
Never look up at them
For guidance or delight.
For such evasive dust
Can make so little clear:
Much less is known than not,
More far than near.
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Alien Sky
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