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Pride And Prejudice: Tanka
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
They said not a word
For not a word need be said
A cloud of silence
Always accompanied them
Others looked on bathed in awe
A Guide To Awkward Questions
A GUIDE TO AWKWARD QUESTIONS
When you’re asked a question
Telling the truth is tops
Though it can be scary
Sometimes even unwise.
Lying? Best avoided
For several reasons.
Distraction works wonders.
Else maintain a silence.
Night In The Desert
NIGHT IN THE DESERT
Silent witnesses
The stars of this cloudless sky
Like a string of pearls
Tiny incidents
Where ungoverned chance had
Drawn her here and there
Looking back she saw
Not chance but evidence of
A greater pattern
Darkness: Shadorma
DARKNESS
Whenever
Eclipse is total
I retreat
To the sky
Close all the doors and windows
And watch the clouds
Wilder Than Us
WILDER THAN US
“All Is One” we’re told
Check it out – Little required
Silence and stillness
Lead to pastures beyond our
Wildest imaginations
A Tanka In Autumn
A TANKA IN AUTUMN
Pox on verbiage
All these dragooned syllables
Listen closely as
The sound of a falling leaf
Declares “nothing to declare”
Life Doubled: Senryu
LIFE DOUBLED
These shaded feelings
Why did we not express them?
Words cannot describe
Spellmeister II
SPELLMEISTER II
Exhausted
Lets go words
Lets go all images
In vivid silence
String quartets
Sprout pirouettes
Free of intent
Dances and teases
Patterns born of chaos
