#soul

"Books are the mirrors of the soul."

"Do Me No Favors Haiku 'Do me no favors ~I can take care of myself.So, pay the check and drive me home."

"They'd Rather Switch [10w] Hearing is wasted on the blind;sight, on the deaf."

"Animal Species Identity [10w] Funny how animals know their own species without a mirror."

"Kaddish Kaddish for Mrs. Ginsbergis not Kaddish,For your mom raised a Buddhistand mine raised a Jew.You'll zazen for your loss,I'll daven for mine.I do not belittle your loss,your grief is no less than mine.But by abandoning your tribe, אלון,Who now will say Kaddish for you?"

"Out-of-the-Box [10w] I march to my own drummerin a drum circle."

"Lady Gaga Haiku A cow has a big head, deep voice, a long tongue, butLady Gaga he's not."

"Sometimes I think,I need a spare heart to feel all the things I feel."

"They say some couples are joined in heaven, and on Earth they look for their partner soul to be with.I knew I had found mine in her. And who can fight heaven?"

"Arches National Park, Utah BloodshotZiggurats of rock against unbending sky,sandstone fins and eyes of ancient earth behemoth.Your windows wedged by cosmic hands of rain and melting snow, of frost and ice, of gravity and geologic time, patient and untiring,self-possessed like a child's perception of endless summer."

"Travel [10w] The difference between a traveler and vacationer is one arrives."

"Buddha (Haiku) Buddha, Enlightened,I rub your belly to blessmy Lotto ticket."

"Beyond the Place of Turning Back ↺ "Sometimes I wish to fly so far sou⇟hit's stars beyond the place of turning back↺"

"North Dakota Haiku "My bib overallslook spiffy at a weddingor a funeral."

"Now [10w] + {Couplet} Whether you Hurry up! or P r o c r a s t i n a t e,the NOW doesn't discriminate."

"Lady Clowns [10w] Lady clowns drip menstrual blood in seven luscious rainbow colors."

"But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed."

"Poetry Trek: 'To Boldly Go Where No man Has Gone Before' A poet must get into spaceship every dayand launch himself into metaphorical space."

"Trickeries, Sophistries and Traps [10w] Life's great irony is that we, the trapped,set traps."

"Gained in Translation [10w] In timeless truths there's more gained than lost in translation."