A writer's last block

This india-rubber
may outlast my warm pencil;
but, this autumn - friends!

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In the steps of Rumi 84: crucifixion

When love is crucified every day,
why waste time
arguing about religion?

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0183 Poem for Kay

Praise be to Him,
our One Creator
who built into Adam
the Great Vibrator.

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Clothes moth

This tiny moth
eating the jacket I no longer wear
is my teacher in the Tao

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A high cue, or Japanese billiards

Beware the person
who says 'It's not that simple...'
you may believe them.

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0396 Thanks to a Poet

You
wrote a poem

I read it

while I read it
I was you

I feel good

thanks

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Elegy on a marriage

the gentle plath
of bitter tears
on the cold grey slate
of crowpecked years

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Winter fun

Delicious snowflake
floating perfect then melting
on my outstretched tongue

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Pour Gonzille (from the French)

Put art
into life
with your work
and your work
will put life
into your art

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0359 One for the Inner Child

As the tapeworm
said to the spaghetti -
'Would you run that
past me again? '

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