Gabfest

Clashing views
Inform less
Than confuse
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Break A Leg

The secret is not
To lose your nerve
While performing
For those you serve

Creativity

Can't help but
Wondering why,
The well never
Runs dry...

Lost Legions

Marching forward, into the haze,
Legions of things unsaid, but
Recorded, in a million ways,
In blogs, poems, and essays,
The ranks of what must be
Written from our random days...

日曜日の午後

Burnt wick of the weekend
A tired Sunday afternoon,
And the happy minutes
Have all flown-by too soon...

Infinite Letters

A poem uses words to save
Something special from
Dissolving into the grave
Where memories decompose...

A poem preserves it,
Prevents it from being dead,
Even if the poem is never read...

Gone Fishing

Trying to tempt a hungry
Fish to eat a dirty trick
Food, plastic, or steel,
Move your bait quick,
Give it a delicious look,
All the while hiding the
Sharp traitorous hook...

April Parking Lot

Cherry blossom petals
Are a white-pink snow
Whirlpooling with the
Gentle vernal blow,
Dancing on the asphalt
In a swirling adagio...

Sick House

Ambiguous is how
A hospital feels
It houses the dying
But also heals

Second Life

After so many years of working,
Serving the cause, being used,
Comes a time called transition,
Which really means "confused"
Move on into a freer day, all
Bewildered and bemused...

Blogger

Word by word,
Thought by thought,
Better to write
It down, than not,
For words are
Really all I've got,
And time cannot
Be bought...

ある日の花見

Bottle of Kubota sits
Among the petals pink,
No one there to drink...

Syria

There came a day when the
War was over and done,
But it never became clear
Who had actually won...

Nirvana Instant

Now and then
Arrives a
Moment when
The static stops
And all is Zen...

Like A Cloud

The problem, left alone,
Dissipated away to
A place unknown,
And I am left relieved,
Peacefully prone...

All About The Bottom Line

It is a desiccated dinosaur, lying, looming
Hugely, in the concrete suburban sprawl,
Weeds now growing in the cracks of the
Parking lot around the shopping mall,
Bankrupt and abandoned, sad proof of
Change, and how hard things can fall...

春休み

Spring break, and the mall is overrun
With children being escorted and chased
By parents, who are not having fun...

Can't Be Helped

The wrong person, or event,
At an undesirable time, will,
Cause an immediate change
Called "buzz-kill"...

In The Greenhouse

Hard science, and smart engineers,
Joined to create the rubber room
We've played in, all these years...

Outage

Temporarily disconnected,
iPhone useless pocket weight,
Her angst is greater than expected,
Each passing moment off-the-grid
Leaves her lonelier, dejected...

According To The Map

Life's road is not always straight,
It tends to be twisted and curved,
And what will happen, will happen,
Whether it is random, or deserved...

Japanese Baseball Tournament

Young men marching onto
The field to play a game,
Are not armed with bayonets,
But the formation is the same...

Sermon Dreaming

I remember sitting on Sunday
Being subjected to a boring
Speech, and there was no way
To escape except to get lost
In games my mind could play

Murphy's Law

Things which happen, may
Destroy the best laid plan,
Simply because they can...

Warning System

Somehow they know, the
Things which live at night,
When to call it quits before
The dangerous morning light...