#teachings

"Tofino, Canada Haiku Free flowing clothes,Strumming guitar on the beach.Still my baggage follows me."

"Death Ride Denied At the stables of your agonyDeath brought his morbid mareTo whisk you from your woeful wantsAnd coax you from your cares.A ride you did deny this princeAnd bid him soft farewell,Hoping the morrow must be brighter sinceYour yesterdays were hell."

"Ode to a Wastepaper Basket I love the way you sit in the corner,gracious like a lover,catching my every crumpled vanity."

"Dull Poetry Dulls the Mind [10w] Poetry penetrates dullness when whetted on the stone of imagination."

"Black Hole The death of one great man makes the world seem empty;the death or three creates a back hole in the heart of humanity.In Memorium 2015B.B. KingOliver SacksNicholas Winton"

"Thank You Dick Wolf [10w] TV crime shows taught me it’s best to lawyer up."

"Vices [10w] Cultivate vices;to be without them is not to be."

"Preserving Beauty [10w] + {Couplet} Preserving beauty is futile;even Cleopatra returned to the Nile."

"Laughter and The Chosen [10w] Making people laugh is God's gift to the Chosen People."

"Let's get physical, physical [10w] All physical contact is meaningful,even if meaningful means sleazy."

"Ageing [10w] There's no such thing as age -- only degrees of opacity."

"Note to Self: Patent #10w Diving Mask for fish filled with water when oceans disappear."

"River Mountain Ocean [10w] + [10w] + {Couplet} Rivers delight in their flow;Mountains savor their snow.But oceans are in concurrencetheir contentment comes from recurrence."

"Hatred is a Simple Child Hatred is a simple child nurtured and coddled in a raging heart and then released into a crowd of innocents wearing a suicide vest."

"Scientific Discovery [10w] The greatest scientific discoveries were madelooking at the overlooked."

"A Poem Should Be Motionless A poem should be motionlessin its eternal truthsand animated to inspire latent words into action."

"Soar Like a Pigeon [10w] Better be a pigeon than an eagle with Indians around."

"Posthumous {Couplet} The anonymous may claim their fame posthumous;But let my words be my stake, while I'm still awake."

"Lowbrows vs. Highbrows If you show something lowbrow to a highbrow does it wind up becoming crusty eye caca?"

"Earth Smile The lip of the mountain smiles ochrewhen the drumming raindrops take root.Pigments from yellow to deep orange to brown,form crowns of light, mirrors reflecting fire ~the ire in the earth, the smirk of the dirt."