JIKU book excerpt #178 (First published in the journal of English Tanshi Bamboo Hut, in the Autumn 2015 edition.)

 

misty sheets of rain ~ 

stir slumbering clouds ~

on my mountain side

Another JIKU book excerpt

 

stained by pitch & sap ~

my hickory handled axe ~

splitting wet firewood

JIKU book excerpt # 165

 

thunderous booming ~

piercing crackles . . . lightning ~

swollen, pregnant clouds ~

birthed on a mountain side ~

divine intuition

From Serenity the Arctic Skoolie

 

process ~

passage of descension ~

a free falling journey ~

till flakes run aground ~

nother Winter - fewer years

Another JIKU excerpt

 

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

Another JIKU excerpt

 

life splintering ~

relationships flickering ~

a cloud a bear witness

From Serenity the Arctic Skoolie #22

 

Springs falling

over stale snowdrifts

life-death . . . springs eternal

Samadhi (#1)

 on a peak finding stillness 

mountains surround me

clouds come n’ go 

recalling my hovel

hermitage “Up the Mtn”

From “Serenity” the Skoolie (#5)

 

the wintered edge of fall

metamorphous

see! . . . the Fireweed

A poem prompted by a Lothar Kirsh photograph. A Poetsphotoprompt, from the Poets the Original Community

sunsets falling reign

dripping drooling fading

autumn leaves

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The Bookcover

Up the Mtn excerpt #34