transcending Isms
where divinity resides
calm still solitude
Saturday, May 21, 2016
#253 from "Up the Mtn", my honkadoried reinterpretation of Basho's Classic Furu-Ike-ya poem.
Black Frog . . . the Old Pond
fall leaves . . . into young waters
as time goes bye
Friday, May 20, 2016
#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
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
#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
Monday, May 16, 2016
Sunday, May 15, 2016
#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
Saturday, May 14, 2016
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
#74 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, Blurb.Com, & ISSUU.Com
Roaring otiosity
wind & rapids painting sound
with mossy brush strokes
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Sunday, May 8, 2016
#89 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, Blurb.Com, & ISSUU.Com
Nature's Lush Life
Coltrane's visceral score
pulsing sultry snow
ylem notes manifestations
Divine Composition
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
Friday, May 6, 2016
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Sunday, May 1, 2016
#134 from "Up the Mtn" available on iTunes, Blurb.Com, & ISSUU.Com
(A form of haiku employing Kaeru, or, a rare reversal of mora/onji, syllable count)
Thursday, April 28, 2016
#101 from "Up the Mtn" available on iTunes, Blurb.Com, & ISSUU.Com
descending
on swirling winter winds
soppy-white-flakes
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Monday, April 25, 2016
Sunday, April 24, 2016
#268b from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, Blurb.Com, and ISSUU.Com
NAKED!
bare handed . . . in the snow
S H I T T I N G
Saturday, April 23, 2016
#168 from the "Up the Mtn" series, available on iTunes, Blurb.Com, and ISSUU.Com
most beautiful death
life epitomized while yielding
drifting Cherry Blossoms
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Gordon Parks "Segregation Story" #5.
Shot Gun Shack
Familial Unity
Well worn DIGNITY!
Photograph by Gordon Parks, from his "Segregation Story Series", "Untitled", in Mobile, Alabama, 1956.
Gordon Parks "Segregation Story" #6
Role reversal
A photograph by the late great Gordon Parks, 1963. A white reporter being frisked at a Black Muslim Rally. Chicago Illinois, 1963.
Gordon Parks "Segregation Story #7"
faith! christ?
Southern duplicity
white washed away
bifurcated artifice
faith? . . . Janus!
Photograph by Gordon Parks, from his Segregation Story Collection, "Untitled" Shady Groove, Alabama, 1956.
Friday, April 15, 2016
Gordon Parks "Segregation Story" #4
In the Deep South
hospitality ='s
APARTHEID
"Outside Looking In"
Segregation
Photography from Gordon Parks's "Segregation Story" Series. "Outside Looking In", Mobile, Alabama, 1956.
Gordon Parks "Segregation Story" #3
Deep South
Segregated
Role models
Photograph from Gordon Parks's "Segregation Story".
"Ondria Tanner and Her Grandmother Window-shopping, in Mobile Alabama, 1956."
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
#144, from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, Blurb.com, & ISSUU
Exposed, naked
in the storm, divinity
naive acced faith
Sunday, April 10, 2016
#265 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, ISSUU.Com, & Blurb.Com,
our love . . . Leaves
. . . foliage from a bough
how our loves autumned
#269 from "Up the Mountain", available on iTunes, Blurb.com, & ISSUU.com
drifting
Up the Mtn
flue smoke
burning white . . . wet wood
in a Spring snow storm
Thursday, April 7, 2016
#179 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, Blurb.Com, and ISSUU.Com
twilight in the bay
the plumed egret . . . wading
. . . low tide fading
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Gordon Parks "Segregation Story" #1
Codified equality . . .
. . . equity . . .
DAMNED!
"Drinking Fountains" by Gordon Parks, part of his "Segregation Story", Mobile, Alabama, 1956
Gordon Parks "Segregation Story" #2
chocolate? . . . VANILLA!
banana split
I SCREAM
I SCREAM
Photo by Gordon Parks's "Segregation Story" Collection
(Shady Grove, Alabama 1956)
#171 from "Up the Mountain", available on iTunes, Blurb.Com, & ISSUU.Com
pale flue smoked moonlight
tree trunks enveloped in . . .
white ephemera
Saturday, March 26, 2016
#147 from "Up the Mountain", available on iTunes, ISSUU.Com, & Blurb.com
birds singing . . . poetry
here & there . . . Where do I belong
just beyond
Friday, March 25, 2016
Thursday, March 24, 2016
#160 from "Up the Mountain", available on iTunes, Blurb.com, & ISSUU.Com
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Clouds drooling
Saturated top soil
Woodland roots feasting
Ferns n' firs focused downwards
Rainstorms cocooned in root balls
Monday, March 21, 2016
#142 from "Up the Mountain" available on iTunes, ISSUU.Com, & Blurb.Com
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Saturday, March 19, 2016
#140 from "Up the Mountain", available on iTunes, Blurb.Com, & ISSUU.Com
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Friday, March 18, 2016
#219 from "Up the Mountain", available on iTunes, ISSUU.Com, & Blurb.Com
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#233 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, ISSUU.Com, & Blurb.com
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Tuesday, March 15, 2016
#42 from "Up the Mtn", available on iTunes, Blurb.com, ISSUU.Com
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Monday, March 14, 2016
#205 from "Up the Mtn", available on Blurb.com, ISSUU.Com, and iTunes.
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