Short Verses and Other Curses #2

(a second round-up of haiku and other diminutive discourses of mine posted in various places throughout the cybersphere)


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Primal December

I ache for those pagan days

Saturnalia!


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It's those voices;

those penetrating and perturbing voices;

ethereal voices spoken from faceless mouths;

Yes, those voices.


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how I view the world

requires not my eyes to see

my life's perspective


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long and dark-filled days

the light that once pleased now pains

still, faith guides my way


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tho' beyond my ken

speak unto me with thy tongue

whispered words betray


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land between rivers'

nine year death knell rings no more

lies alone prevailed


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Now is not so bad.

But, it always seems

to be a little better

as Then.


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Surround me with such things

Erudite things

Simple things

Things of pleasure

Things of pain

Any thing

That can both

Take me forward

And can bring me back

To where I long to be

And to where I forever dread


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minds provoked, pursued

the beating and burning heart

graves settle but dust


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the blood turns not red

until the wound has occurred

truths are bound by scars


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the slow burning fuse

the flash of the fireworks

none live less the spark


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mete me with wisdom

mete me with the hidden way

blind, I find no bliss


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empirical lust

a burning need for knowledge

cant douses the flame


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Love's arrival

demands Epiphany's flourishing trumpet.


Love's departure

requires no such song.


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forge forever on

tho' dark death rewards us all

forge forever on


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whither journey's end

is that which eludes me

yonder shall I go


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from mind to matter

believe it and it shall be

you determine you


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sing out savior songs

dance free amongst the cherubs

listen for the wind


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if we chance to win

we must also chance to lose

both promise rewards


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who among us all

leave no footsteps in the sand

who can bar the tide


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the word is as told

its telling built empires

decontruct it all

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