amerikkka #75

 

“Things Fall Apart”

“the center cannot hold”

in amerikkka

when words - actions don’t align

“YOUR” constitution is TRASH!

Merry xmas and happy holidays all

 

tidings of comfort & joy ~

Xmas Carols ~

old time crooners reign

Serenity #50

 processing a journey ~

life’s memories  ~

melancholy taint of love ~

past present future ~

life death  -  joy pain - rites of passage

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 frost snaps a bending bough ~

lost love angst in my chest ~

downpour of hail stings my bald head ~

steaming cold waters drips ~

down my cheek and forehead

amerikkka #74

 

mississippi 

restitution centers (PRISONS!)

still . . . SLAVERY!

two thousand dollar debt

serve three years in prison

amerikkka #73 (From the river to the sea)

 

“from the river to the sea” ~

not “always” synonymous with ~

intifada (uprising) ~

jews arabs ~

All can live in peace, as one

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red dragonfly ~

dyed in a sunset ~

still in autumn’s dusk

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between the trees ~

in the garden I spy ~

an old woman picking weeds

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some are like green plums ~

some leaves of course are coloured ~

foliage strewn blues

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foliage falling ~

till boughs bud again ~

on and on . . . and on

amerikkka #71 (on mein trumpf)

“Vermin” - “poisoning our blood” ~

amerikkkans! ~

so says mein trumpf ~

insurrection act incited ~

on inauguration day

amerikkka #70 (on mein trumpf)

 terminating ~

department of education ~

so says mein trumpf ~

fascisms ~

miracle-grow

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coloured foliage ~

boughs are shedding autumn ~

abstract forest floor

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gales mash root rot ~

Autumn’s needles cry . . . in fall ~

a breeze  - leaves - a trunk prostate ~

on a forest floor ~

shrill silence - Autumn’s FalL

amerikkka #59

  

few float to the top ~

most sink to the bottom ~

while the middle churns

amerikkka #72

 

“red ceasarism” ~

“terminate the constitution” ~

so says mein trumpf ~

amerikkkan fascism ~

inevitable?

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our love . . . leaves ~

. . . foliage from a bough ~

how our loves autumned

amerikkka #58 (the middle class)

 

few float to the top ~

most sink to the bottom ~

while the middle churns

amerikkka #57

 

first immigrants ~

then/now citizens ~

all dehumanized ~

mein trumpf ~

executing democracy

 

Pacific Northwest ~

Old Growths - wet greens ~

Reign

drying burning up ~

 

climate change ?

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life splintering ~

relationships flickering ~

a cloud a bear witness

amerikkka #55

 

things - people ~

Materialism ~

WAR ~

capitalistic . . . ~

. . . Genocide

amerikkka (Israel & Palestine) #56

 

the right to self-defense ~

lost (to all sides) ~

once you begin to kill “BABIES” ~

genocide - apartheid ~

metamorphosis 

amerikkka #54

 

Ireland - South Afrikkka ~

Palestine - India - amerikkka ~

settlers ~

genocide - apartheid ~

colonialism

 

autumn winds ~ 

ruffle fields of buckwheat & barley ~

snotty clouds sneeze

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autumn leaves ~ 

bursting - blazing - ripe ~

the red leaves

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moonlit beauty ~

watersheds silhouette ~

soaring Osprey

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 KIKU

that scent ~

Chrysanthemums ? ~

cool autumn breeze ~

infuses in steam ~

off a bowl of barley

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coloured trail dirt ~

crumbled & fading ~

leaves

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Another JIKU excerpt (Up the Mtn #211)

 

suns laying down ~

wisping winds - misting waters ~

about valley floors ~

coolness, descends in shadows ~

fullmoons colossal nights

Welcome to “JIKU”

 

      In 2013 someone asked me, how would I explain or describe haiku ? What is or should the Haiku Poets words communicate to the reader? well, here was my response.

“Haiku are meant to evoke an emotional response from the reader . . . to light the spark that triggers creative rumination . . . They act as literary manifestations . . . visions of nature’s seasonal modulations . . . They’re emotionally tinged words, barely perceptible sensory flickers . . . literary etchings of lucid visions transposed into the minds of its readers . . . They’re meant to act as sensory catalysts . . . like the passing of a penciled baton laid out upon a piece of paper that a reader might grasp for in their mind’s eye . . . all of which prompts the reader to continue exploring the sensory experience elicited from the writers pen . . . This is how the literary sketching of poets are intended to function . . . as creative muses with which readers can draw from and viscerally apply to their own artistic idioms . . . from that lucid space within their heads . . . Where their minds eye can spark their own creative visions”

Up the Mtn, the end

 

Israel -Palestine #1

 (Yes I realize that previously 1,200 Jews were slaughtered, but! When does the killing stop ? At 10k, 100k, a million, or 6 million of gods Jewish/Muslim children?)

Holocaust Survivor ~

calling out Gaza killings ~

 as GENOCIDE!

Israel-Palestine #2

 

Palestinian suffering ~

(amerikkka’s) proxy genocide ~

our trauma porn

Up the Mtn #149

 

rapids ~

washing over me ~

swaying trees

Up the Mtn #215

 

my journeys my home ~

time, love, fellow travelers ~

a wanderous life

Up the Mtn #185

 

(grateful) transcendence ~

(moonlit) Cherry Blossoms . . . floating ~

“this other World” 

Up the Mtn #227

 

-40 ~

I know warmth awaits me ~

just beyond this numbness ~

whether indoors by the fire ~

or sitting by this tree

Up the Mtn #206

 

debt forgiveness ~

for the fortune 500 ~

corporate bankruptcy ~

compounding interests ~

austerity 

Up the Mtn #50

 

from my hovel ~

(that) smokey scent lingers ~

from Up the Mtn

 

Up the Mtn #115

 

warm dusk  lust drizzles ~

her parasol swollen   wet ~

COME !      lingering heat ~

crimson Moon (iro) softens ~

morning glory (iros) waning

Up the Mtn #49

 

couscous n’ olive oil ~

river’s essence boiled clean ~

Mtn treat

Up the Mtn #48

 

skies darken past tree lines ~

moonbeams shine as sunlight flees ~

field mice dine with me

Up the Mtn #47

 

two degrees outside ~ 

wood stove smoke tears me up ~

still . . .  two degrees outside

Up the Mtn #46

 

soggy wet wood heats 

Up the Mtn - hovel ~

fickle   wood stove heat

Up the Mtn #45

 

Sabi - Up the Mtn ~

tight quarters - wood stove    yugen ~

Wabi - Mtn Hovel

Up the Mtn #44

 

bright moonlight ~

another starry nite ~

false daylight

Up the Mtn #42

 

dusk yields to moonlight ~

Up the Mtn   evenings come ~

ah!   moonlit nite lite

Up the Mtn #13

 

drifting through shadows ~

swirling clouds ride up sunbeams ~

smoke fleeing my flue