Serenity #33

 

sense . . .  see . .  hear . . . know ~

without seeing, hearing, knowing ~

this is the tao ~

cultivate te . . . & ~

everything returns to . . .

Serenity the Arctic Skoolie #32

 

physical ephemera ~

to bloom & wilt ~

ethereal wisdom ~

birth- life - death ~

transcendence

(Prompted, honkadoried from Aescylus)

Serenity the Arctic Skoolie #31

 

capitalism ~ 

segregating ~

moral values

amerikkka #54 (Ode to Marvin Gaye”)

 

“mercy mercy mercy me” ~

amerikkka ~

“things” still “the way they used to be”

From Serenity the Arctic Skoolie #25

 

subtle nuanced ~

textured surface coloration ~

look touch feel ~

hands-on hard work . . . Art Education ~

curing tobacco

Serenity the Arctic Skoolie #30

 life’s non-linear ~

processing ~

emotional waves

 decades of tit for tat

Middle East genocide

all gods children

Israel ~ Palestine ~ the madness #1

 retribution ~ revenge -

Israel ~ Palestine -

“all” gods children

amerikkka #53

“poisoning the blood of our country” ~

so says mein trumpf . . .  so said hitler

Serenity #24

 prognosis   -   diagnosis ~

subjective ~

objective ~

judgment ~

awareness

amerikkka #52 (speaking truth to power)

           For decades I’ve struggled with trying to keep my poetry, especially my Senryu, neutral and objective to most any reader. At the very least I strived to keep my subjectively opinionated senryu poetry, apart from my objectively neutral haiku and tanka poetry. Yet, as the Empire I was born and raised in continues to undeniably, morally decay day by day, month after month, year after year, and decade upon decade; I can stay silent no longer. This morally corrupt and oppressive trend in our local communities, state judiciaries, and federal legislators and executive branches can no longer be objectively characterized as anomalies of governance, justice, rules of law, or unbiased supremely judicial judgements.

 I’ve been forced by my fellow americans, from the lowest of the low to the highest of those currently and formerly empowered to lead our decaying empire, to speak out against their morally corrupt ideology, philosophy, their oppressive, racist, sexist, and xenophobic laws and regulations, and their actions; but most significantly, their fearful inactions.

 I vehemently believe we are mimicking hitler and his third reich into mein trumpf’s fourth reich of incompetence, xenophobia, and self-destructive ignorance and stupidity. Therefore, I must go on record and speak out against it all, no matter the cost, so that I may have a clear conscious and some sense of moral contentedness in the coming months and years, as america implodes. 

amerikkka #51

 see . . . the circus ~

clowns performing ~

amerikkka’s congress

From “Serenity” the Arctic Skoolie (#9)

 

hurriedly learning ~

to be worthy ~

of her love

From Serenity the Arctic Skoolie #23

 

bodies of information

speech - patterns - beats

ways of Being

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 Arctic Skoolie #21

 selfishness

narcissism

estrangement

sacrifice - resistance

finding freedom . . . the sacred

For today, a Springtime tanka poem

Spring’s descent ~

soft flakey ~

drizzle ~

Winter’s fading ~

natures awakening

From “Serenity” the Arctic Skoolie (#3b)

 

whiteness descending ~

brownness  arising ~

bound on a Mountainside

From “Serenity” the Skoolie (#5)

 

the wintered edge of fall

metamorphous

see! . . . the Fireweed

From “Serenity” the Skoolie (#4)

 

autumn’s chill

descending at dusk

in Denali

From “Serenity” the Skoolie (#3a)

 

precarious

the fragility of life

birth ~ illness ~ health ~ death ~ rebirth

From “Serenity” the Skoolie (#2)

 

deny ignore

feign truth

irrational exuberance

From “Serenity” the Skoolie (#1)

 black n’ White

co-dependent

graduations

From “Serenity” the Skoolie (#8)

 the chill in the air

            on a bus windshield

                            fall . . . of condensation

drifting snow

colour blotches grow on my hands

contrast division smear

hear it

ahh! Miles n’ Gil Evans

moving me Beyond 

that era of Jazz . . . 

. . . still - in this moment

😷

 

Another JIKU excerpt

so little time

too bright inefficient burn

ripened beyond

burnt wicks way to long

life’s wax bleeds from this candle

😷

Another JIKU excerpt

blue moon

upon the tatami

a pine needle

😷

 

Another JIKU excerpt

I drop . . . I rain

my destination unknown

let go spla tT. E . . . R!

😷

 

A JIKU book excerpt

sit . . . wait

contemplate existence 

what might be . . . what will be

and all that has 

. . . the past

settling in 

in unsettling times

relaxing through anxiousness

😷

. . . insidious . . . subtle . . .

. . . anxiety . . .

Covid Pangs

autumn leaves . . . a breeze

the flat light shivers

time . . . seeping coloured stillness

‪Earth’s Womb swells‬

‪nursing unsown spaces‬

‪rustics . . . weeds ~ everywhere‬

‪😷‬

Recollections

Old Growth breeze

. . . still . . . overtime

sensations remain

Alyeskan Interior #363‬

‪sensing the browning‬

‪of the leaves . . . fading . . . in july‬

‪heralds of winter‬

‪of sub zero harshness‬

‪of sub arctic cold‬

Covid-19 #103

in Spring

these viral political winds

where will they blow

June 7th, 2020

‪socratic education‬

‪entails critical thinking‬

‪which develops prophetic knowledge‬

‪being educated as such does not necessarily coincide with obtaining credentials

‪nonetheless it does coincide with refining ones critical intellect‬

‪still, without spiritual integrity & ethical morality‬

‪all is lost‬

‪😷 ‬

From the Alyeskan Interior, Book I

reflections

of the “floating world”

rebirth    equipoise 

‪Covid-19 #12‬

‪4 weeks‬

‪52 doctors . . . all dead‬

‪Italy . . . again‬

‬

Covid-19 #4

           two days later

(743)   700 more

        DEAD Italians

             as if . . .

    they were honey bees

‪Covid-19 #3

‪                next day‬

‪(793)  800 Italians‬

‪                  Dead‬

Covid-19 #2

case . . . case

cluster . . . cluster

Coronavirus . . . BOOM!

Covid-19 #1

              in a day

 (627) 600 Italians

            DEAD!

drooling 

through my window . . . pain

winter’s reign

Alyeskan Interior Book III

in the Interior

the dark whiteness

minus -20f   ~   -50f

Merry Xmas

tidings of comfort & joy

Xmas Carols

old time crooners reign

This Up the Mtn haiku was recently featured on the California State Library Website.

      after the rains

   a cool moist breeze

swelling summer breeze

Alyeskan Interior: Book III

in between

summer - winter

fall leaves