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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
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Imprinted
The past, technically,
Does not exist,
Except in books and
Brain-synapse mist,
"It's gone, god damn it!"
One may insist,
Yet it lingers on, not
Easily dismissed...
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Relentless
Tirelessly tend to
Daily needs,
Neglected garden
Fills with weeds...
日没とムクドリ
Into the gold and gray, the sun descends,
A hundred starlings in the grass
Search for bug-food, as a day ends...
Old Brew
Way back in the Medieval years,
Clean water scarce,
So instead, they drank beers...
Repeat After Me
Despite best efforts,
Sometimes it falls apart,
So, no choice but to
Reassess, restart...
Sunday, May 28, 2023
Grace
Remember our sins,
For as long as we live,
Hard to forget,
So need to forgive...
Friday, May 26, 2023
Somewhere In Ukraine
Cold clean morning
Across the Donbass,
And here, in a trench,
I'm freezing my ass...
Too Busy To Notice
Loneliness lessened
By daily distractions,
Errands, chores,
And retail actions...
Monday, May 22, 2023
Take It Easy
Nothing to do,
Nowhere to go,
Magic joy of
Quiet and slow...
Mono-speak
Me talking to me,
Soliloquy...
Saturday, May 20, 2023
Cosmic
Minutes rush by
In a dizzying pace,
Our steady expiration
While flying through space,
On near-spherical
Rotating place...
Friday, May 19, 2023
Jet Lag
Sleep vultures circle
Above my head,
And around my
Insomniac bed...
Thursday, May 18, 2023
China, Russia, Etc...
For Eurasian residents,
An unavoidable fate,
To be stuck as subjects
Of an authoritarian state...
Airlines Class Warfare
To maintain control, back in
Economy, the way it works,
Is to keep the unwashed unaware
Of business class pleasures & perks...
Draw the curtain quickly, quietly,
So they cannot spy and see...
ChatGPT Unleashed
Computer, first controlled by
The software it ran,
Grew smarter, and faster,
According to a logical plan,
But then gradually, changed
Into a boogeyman,
And now it does whatever,
Just because it can...
Air Defense
The insults she launched,
Were tracked, and intercepted,
Disarmed by a well-aimed smile,
Totally unexpected...
With Gas...?
Some like sparkling,
Others prefer still,
For mineral water, lifestyle,
Or whatever you will...
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Holiday Inn Express
Hotel room, well used,
By many, now and then,
I wonder about that
In a moment of quiet Zen...
Friday, May 12, 2023
言霊
Words, like musical notes
Linked together in a tune,
Sing of happiness, beauty,
Anger, angst, or ruin...
Harbor Retirement Home
Pier side, old wooden ship,
Empty mast, sails furled,
Long gone the sea days,
Sailing around the world...
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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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Imprinted
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