At The Back Of Beyond
AT THE BACK OF BEYOND
Have you been there and
back? – That’s hard enough but then …
To fit in again? …
Will-o’-the-wisp
WILL-O’-THE-WISP
She works as a weathercaster
Drawing my attention away
Into some conjectured future
Conjuring up expectations
Tinkering with my emotions
Desire and disappointment
Elation, hope and fear
Stoking my imagination
Into creating or revising
My plans and proposals
I’m no longer in the room
I’ve left my body, marooned
Blind … I’m off remote viewing
Living an imaginary scenario
Any hint of current awareness
Has gone for a burton now
Sight, with the other senses
Has gone off line, no signal
A fake weather screensaver
Blocks out any true live contact
With the weather outside my window
Herald Of The Dawn
HERALD OF THE DAWN
Painting in pastels
Brilliant skies and waters
Secrets brought to light
Diversity
DIVERSITY
Married they are
Loving one another
Into intricate infinity
Yet borrowing and lending
This odd money stuff
Back and forth
Meticulous to the penny
Observers shake their heads
In frank disbelief and wonder
But that’s the way they like it
And besides – and beside the point
These vainglorious observers
Are, when all’s said and done
Adding one and one to make nine
Thought
THOUGHT
Where do they come from?
And where do they go?
And what is their purpose?
And shall we ever know?
Making time for nature
Those who love their own noise are impatient of everything else. They constantly defile the silence of the forests and the mountains and the sea. They bore through silent nature in every direction with their machines, for fear that the calm world might accuse them of their own emptiness. The urgency of their swift movement seems to ignore the tranquility of nature by pretending to have a purpose.
Meddling
May 20
Posted by Ben Naga
MEDDLING
Stop all this meddling.
Do what’s needful; beyond that
you only interfere.
Posted in Poetry, Senryu, Writing
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