No cries of sea birds
Steel, concrete, and car exhaust
New Jersey marshlands.
*****
Food loses savor
And my ribs begin to show
This anxiety.
*****
Mist shrouded tree trunks
Wet leaves glisten – fungi sprout
Early autumn damp.
No cries of sea birds
Steel, concrete, and car exhaust
New Jersey marshlands.
*****
Food loses savor
And my ribs begin to show
This anxiety.
*****
Mist shrouded tree trunks
Wet leaves glisten – fungi sprout
Early autumn damp.
I woke this morning
Baptized by chilly dew drops
Nature’s kiss at dawn
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Fragile as a moth
Or the hollow bones of birds
No, this hope is steel
*****
First chill of autumn
Chairs inch closer and closer
To the dying fire.
Drink deep, sweet willow
Like the rain was just for you
I will watch you grow.
*****
Magnolia tree
Its roots drowned in sodden spring
The sad withered leaves.
*****
One day with you would
Be worth a hundred summers
Yet you turn away.
Light autumn rainfall
Droplets in the canopy
Soft earth underfoot
*****
O Rhododendron
I’ve never seen this red fruit
Clustered among leaves
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Does your silence speak?
I fill it with sweet stories
And hope you are well.
Autumn chrysalis
Let us meet when things ripen
Under painted leaves
*****
This battered old thing
Warm quivering heart of mine
Still filled with great hope.
*****
Soon, the Equinox
Already the rain grows cold
My shirt soaked – I laugh
Oceanic love
I sit on your sandy shore
Under bodhi tree.
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I will not mourn for
These flowers at summer’s end
They return in time.
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I don’t have the words
To describe her warm smile
Nor to draw it forth.
A piece of my heart
And a corner of my mind
Like a walled garden
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Teach me, you old stones
How you wait so patiently
Through the crawl of time.
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Dog’s heavy breathing
Air heavy with coming rain
Sweat pours down my back.