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

神木楠

Towering over the ancient shrine,
The sentient god 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...

Dream Logic

Follow your dream,
What will be, will be,
Or so it may seem...

Teflon

Bullet dodged
No need to hurry
Problem deflected
Not to worry...

茄子

The eggplant is purple,
Firm and lush,
But when cooked,
Turns into mush...

Summer In Tokyo

Sweat drip humidity,
Sun shines so hard it hurts,
Legions of clones in short
Sleeve collared shirts,
All wearing dark pants,
Scurry from shadow to
Shadow, worker ants...

Indelible

Past mistakes recalled
With remorse, regret,
May have been forgiven
But never can forget

The Mechanism

Things run according
To unwritten laws
Gears grinding turning
Each effect with its cause

Invisibles

Radio waves launched from antennae,
Flying quietly through the air,
Spirits of the Internet, touching
All the connected, everywhere...

Over There

Dried and hot, where I sit,
Distant cloud dropping rain,
Cooling things there for a bit...

石碑

On a forgotten forest path,
The marker stands alone,
An attempt to capture
The past, in a stone,
Chiseled words weathered
No longer can be read,
Their story lost with the
Writers now long dead...

Urban Sprawl

Driveways dividing
The viridis
Dwindling shopping malls
Suburban bliss
Gasoline-fed
A land of plenty
Parking lot vistas
Running on empty...

Starflyer

A woman sitting comfortably, in peace,
She is a "Starflyer" proclaims the ad,
Which I glance at, thinking that must
Be something nice to be had,
With me nosed-up to the poster,
On a crowded morning train,
Looking at her, and trying to
Ignore the boredom and pain...

Sunset Walk In Heisei-Cho

Sultry golden August dusk,
Housewife walking with a scoop
Pulled by her dog, she waits
For the canine to poop,
So she can go back home,
And the dog can sleep,
Unthinking, immersed
In the habits they keep... 

Olongapo 1981

The place where
Lust and desires mesh
Into a market for
Feel-good and flesh
Bedazzled by neon
The rock music plays
Streets sell pleasure
In a thousand ways
The place where
It sometime seems
That money can fix
The broken dreams
Of the workers trapped
In the peddling schemes

盆栽

It continues to grow
To be tall and free
But it’s choked by wires
The Bonsai tree
Stunted in bondage
Indefinitely...

Dizzy Spell

When fear and
Euphoria interbred,
Atmospheric disturbance
Inside my head...