“Up the Mtn” book excerpt #198, available on iTunes or on Blurb.com

“Up the Mtn” book excerpt #15, available on iTunes

Up the Mtn #15, available on iTunes, Blurb.com, & ISSUU.Com

so little time

so bright, ineffiecent burn

ripened beyond

burnt wicks way to long

life's wax bleeds from this candle

A jikuzo-shi & honkadori haiku, and excerpt from "JIKU".

A form of jikuzo-shi & honadori haiku

streaming throngs

drifting perfection      crests

foaming white      capped

(A Hokusai wood block print #74 Travelers climbing a Mountain path, 1835-6")

#194 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, Blurb.com, & ISSUU.Com

sinking cinders

ash flakes floating downstream

wildland forest fires

#204 from "Up the Mtn", available on Itunes, ISSUU.Com, & Blurb.com

spring descends

atop chrysanthemums

cascades of pink      blossoms

#238 from "Up the Mtn" available on iTunes, Blurb.Com, & ISSUU.Com

#171 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, ISSUU.Com, & Blurb.Com

pale flue smoked moonlight

tree trunks envelpoed in . . .

white ephemera

#165 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, Blurb.Com, & ISSUU.Com

thunderous booming

piercing crackles      lightning

swollen pregnant clouds

birthed on a Mtn side

divine intuition

A JIKU excerpt

transcending Isms

where divinity resides 

calm   still   solitude

#133 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, ISSUU.Com, & Blurb.Com

deep in the forest

my hovel      my hermitage

healing seclusion

nature's divinity

continues on and on  .  .  .  And on

#140 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, Blurb.Com, & ISSUU.Com

#65, from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, ISSUU.Com, & Blurb.com

waxing      waning

years teeming    flowing with time

rivers    fjords    oceans

bodies evaporating

clouds drooling all about me

#175 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, Blurb.Com, & ISSUU.Com

#246 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, Blurb.Com, & ISSUU.Com

pale misty air

wood smoked rain, nature's musk(y)

Up the mountain

#74 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, Blurb.Com, & ISSUU.Com

Roaring otiosity

wind & rapids      painting sound

with mossy brush strokes

An excerpt from my book of poetry entitled "JIKU", available on iTunes, Blurb.Com & Amazon

                                I pedal past

                   raindrops, pummeling petals

                      wrung dry,  by high winds

#194 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, ISSUU.Com, & Blurb.Com

#178 from the "Up the Mtn Series", available on iTunes, ISSUU.Com, & Blurb.Com

#154 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, Blurb.com, & ISSUU.com