Thursday, November 30, 2023

 

Pacific Northwest ~


Old Growths - wet greens ~


Reign












drying burning up ~
 
climate change ?

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

amerikkka #55

 

things - people ~


Materialism ~


WAR ~


capitalistic . . . ~


. . . Genocide

Monday, November 27, 2023

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


Saturday, November 25, 2023

 

autumn winds ~ 


ruffle fields of buckwheat & barley ~


snotty clouds sneeze





Friday, November 24, 2023

Monday, November 20, 2023

Sunday, November 19, 2023

Another JIKU excerpt

 KIKU


that scent ~


Chrysanthemums ? ~


cool autumn breeze ~


infuses in steam ~


off a bowl of barley






Wednesday, November 15, 2023

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”







Monday, November 13, 2023

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




Sunday, November 12, 2023

Saturday, November 11, 2023

Up the Mtn #185

 


(grateful) transcendence ~


(moonlit) Cherry Blossoms . . . floating ~


“this other World” 




Friday, November 10, 2023

Thursday, November 9, 2023

Up the Mtn #206

 

debt forgiveness ~


for the fortune 500 ~


corporate bankruptcy ~


compounding interests ~


austerity 




Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

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




Monday, November 6, 2023

Up the Mtn #48

 

skies darken past tree lines ~


moonbeams shine as sunlight flees ~


field mice dine with me




Sunday, November 5, 2023

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




Friday, November 3, 2023

Thursday, November 2, 2023

Up the Mtn #42

 


dusk yields to moonlight ~


Up the Mtn   evenings come ~


ah!   moonlit nite lite




Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Up the Mtn #13

 


drifting through shadows ~


swirling clouds ride up sunbeams ~


smoke fleeing my flue