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Haiku #484: Gasp!
Arrival—inhale!
Wind laden with love and pain
Exhale—departed!
Breathing should be an inalienable right to all; it—breath—should not be pleaded for, nor withheld as a means to demonstrate power over another.
Haiku #483
Soul, a screaming pond.
Struggling for a way out,
—How am I not George
Everyday I wake up with a tinge of fear that it may be my last simply because my skin remembers the long history of insensibility—it, my skin, has been an excusable causality for unjustified violence…
Haiku |Our Bodies
Love is not of us,
we exist because of it,
koi fish show no tears.
love does not weaken, confuse, misconstrue; but in our desires we blind ourselves to these truths.
TSH
Poem 354/365:2016
eyes-wide-shut—pensive
gripped by the emptiness
of a glass half full
Poem 290/365:2016
been away searching
speaking to shadows born
of light with no eyes
Poem 176/365:2016
Beneath raging seas
Beneath trees in the wind dance
Is a calm body
poem 136/365:2016
I taught her to give birth
and her me to be a man—
enough to love her
//
mothers give birth to men
who will give them love or grief…
poem 132/365:2016
when we are patient
time has no significance,
we become timeless—
free of its urgent cruelty
beyond reach of its fetters
poem 119/365:2016
wanted to bend as grass
edgeless blade resilient
but my heart was stiff—
