Author: cfblack
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haiku for last day of 2023
white egret rises up green hooded drake circles brown mate heron does not flinch 12-31-23
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nothing
nothing comes from emptiness not me, not you not the crow that calls harsh and often not the wind that chills the morning air rustles dry leaves . unwilling to fall everything comes from somewhere else why this is so I don’t know 12-30-23
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The Day After Christmas
‘The Day After Christmas’ or ‘Keep Your Damn Reindeer Off My Roof’ On the day after Christmas our son-in-law, Jean, gets up early for work, Jasmine packs and drives back to Atlanta, Carol, Leah and our granddaughter, Naylah, return gifts of wrong sizes and spend gift cards on shoes, the chickens are fed and snug…
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Doors of misconception
Philosophers and poets say there is a doorway between worlds. Ignore the narrow path. The universe is ever expanding. Stop looking for a door where there is no wall. Gate keepers want a toll. Step around the door; it only slows you down. 12-22-23 “Thou art but one step away from the glorious heights above…
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How to Survive a Conversation with a Narcissist
Tell me your requirements for love and I will tell you that is not love. 12-20-23
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Love in the time of chess
take you time you may not have a thousand permutations on a theme left to make carelessness is not surrender it is suicide 12-20-23
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Poet tea
in Larry’s kitchen water simmers on stove light through blinds climbs the dining room wall outside we feed the chimenea old newspapers, talk cultural appropriation, Sufi poets, Herbert, Milton, Shakespeare, Donne, and how imperfect fruit tastes sweeter than grocery store perfection, while we sip tea in the sunshine until the fire burns out 12-20-23
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The heretic
standing in the cold beating on the door begging for someone to open the door gives way and falls forward you were knocking from inside 12-19-23
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blue haiku
cold, bright, morning light muddied pond after the storm reflects blue, blue sky 12-18-23
