Author: cfblack
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Sun day
“Because you are alive, everything is possible.” — Thich Nhat Hanh light reflected in a mirror takes nothing from the sun our shadows walk across the ground but cannot diminish our bodies in their journeys our physical perfections and imperfections have no impact on the spirit and so it goes I am responsible for my…
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haiku over Charlotte
going or coming? contrails eviscerates sky cat scratched pink sundown 12-14-24 (at granddaughter’s soccer game) 12-14-24
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ecstatic haiku
trees dance in the wind bright Autumn gowns at their feet my jacket zipped tight 12-11-24
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mount up and fly
you don’t need a pin through your abdomen or gutted and stuffed by taxidermist to prove you are a special being and in danger of becoming extinct mount up and fly while you still can 12-9-24
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Chicken Little
sky falls on red sundown red fox licks his lips blue Wednesday morning Henny Penny screams the end is near shades of trauma prism light x and y of politics, accidents of birth world spins red, then black and back to blue do not fear children’s fables in the dark, zombies eat their own let…
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haiku of hope
high up on a branch unafraid its perch may break a crow croaks, caw, caw 12-6-24
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poem for a cold as F### day
Bright sun Blue, blue sky Cold enough To freeze my testicles off I did not move South For this kinda of day If someone has to take the blame Blame little Timmy Conroy 12-4-24
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Autumn wood glow
low flying helicopter across the face of the moon chases witches from the sky deer stands under street light possum waddles along fence neighbor waves from his porch late season tree frogs sing add another log to the fire and I oblige 10-24-23
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