Category: Poems
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Hidden
A pair of hidden coots in the sedge line driven out by raucous fighter jets. Bubbles alive with memory trail upon the lake top.
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To Sons and Daughters
To our sons or daughters, You have nothing to be ashamed of, whatever it is that they mock you for, it is also them; There is nothing that belongs to you that is not also theirs. The streets are hungry and the alleyways hungrier still, and you will find in your own way that language…
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A Daydream
i had a daydream then, as i was being drawn to the noose someone in the crowd yelled, traitor! it was so vivid as echoes on the old stone walls. the rope squeezed and i realized i’ve been traversing incomprehensible distances inside my own mind, while running the treadmill.
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It’s like
It’s likethat time, remember, you drifted through the crowd with purpose and ease. You saw every way forward, every crease. With only one aim in your heart: to feel the music. Toward the thumping speakers you drift, beating with the rhythm that held your whole body together, held the earth in place. Holy melodies shook…
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Playground Days
Playground daysmy page sits blankCricket sings under crescent moon As the smile returns to my faceThinking about watching you making discoveries new.
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Letting Go (Again)
My life is a portrait of states of mind. Every night before I go to sleep I practice letting go, letting go of ego. Looking outside, looking outside of me. Slipped into dream.
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Clover to Clover
Upon finding a honeybee on her afternoon rounds… clover to clover betweenmy feet —breeze
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7/29/19
SevenTwentynineNineteen Fledglings in and out Of baby yew. . . and i’m The only one watching!
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Fruit Flies and Summer Heat (A Poem)
Fruit Flies and Summer Heat fruit flies are in full bloom in this summer heat, a dish of apple-cider vinegar on the counter, next to a vase of dead and dried wild flowers. dishes are stacking up, and now i think there’s a fruit fly in the back of my throat.
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#Haikai Challenge #96 (7/27/19): cicada (semi) #haiku #senryu #haibun #tanka #haiga #renga
Here’s my entry for this weeks #Haikai Challenge: Cicada Cicada husks on siding of my memory -back to school shopping To check out the other entries and add one yourself… https://wp.me/p7XKTn-4cy
Daniel J Flosi is Consumed 