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welcome to the fifth organic edition of dew-on-line 2002
succumb to a journey of self-exploration & poetic pleasure
148 pages and 38 artworks
related:
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sept 11 poems
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other sites
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d e w - o n - l i n e
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for sky now blue
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out of still
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the barefoot child
finding a caterpillar
with no shoes on
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ai li @ belsize park
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There is something in me which cannot stand
A long poem, the way the oak apples
Fall on seeding nettles, the fact
That Basho went further than the rest
& he travelled on foot
the wind
Scatters itself over the ragged stones
Of Northumberland, I am
Alone, it is
Enough
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Graham Brown @ Bermondsey
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i will come softly
in the night
like a moth
to your window
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Larry Kimmel @ Colrain, Massachusetts
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Archive drafts...
cobwebs hang from a shelf
with out-of-print monographs
Rebecca Lilly @ Port Republic, Virginia
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WEST KENNET LONG BARROW
swallow me, goddess
your wound is a door
Graham Brown @ Bermondsey
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milk everywhere and the ghosts of cats
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ai li @ belsize park
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quiet after solstice winds mountain snow
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Peter Macrow @ Sandy Bay, Tasmania
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pleading for death
in his chest
the steering column
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Larry Kimmel @ Colrain, Massachusetts
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moonlight
on the old bridge
giving every nail shadow
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ai li @ belsize park
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on this frozen lake
ghost of
your voice
in cold rooms
echo
Tim W. Younce @ Luray, Virginia
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lLove embroidered
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on the silk scarf.
Tatjana Debeljacki @ Nemanjina, Serbia
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lsunday school class--
coveting my neighbor's
faith
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Carlos Colon @ Shreveport, Louisiana
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lEnlightenment
It comes into focus, the face of the man
in the moon. Not just a disease of pock
and shadow, but the full faced caricature,
the same as seen by you, unknown illustrator
of my mother Goose, fellow artist
once maligned - now vindicated.
Larry Kimmel @ Colrain, Massachusetts
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Twilight fades to slate-blue...
a dusting of snowflakes
on the lake-mirrored moon
Rebecca Lilly @ Port Republic, Virginia
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now that you are gone
the realization dawns
you are no longer
the brother
nor the friend
you are the man i love
shirley cahayom @ brooklyn
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empty evening
fish & chips
on a newspaper
with headlines of
yet another war
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ai li @ belsize park
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Squares of unsold plots...
slabs without flowers
scattered here and there in fog
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Rebecca Lilly @ Port Republic, Virginia
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TALKING ABOUT LIFE AND POETRY AND THE 1953 FLOODS
Out on that spit of land
were houses overwhelmed by the sea
And we
decades later
shaken
in this thin space
are awash with each other's words
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Hilary Mellon @ Norwich
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almost up to the sill today - the snail
Peter Macrow @ Sandy Bay, Tasmania
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LEAF POEM
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(for Julie)
The green
Miracle, feeding
The bark with light
From the darling buds
The sap descending
To the veins of root
Through you we give
The name of rowan
Maple, we give
& we are given
O sacred
Photosynthesis
O incredible
Leaf, the wings
Of the seed
Returning simply
By the turning
Of the ordinary world
Graham Brown @ Bermondsey
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Gates locked, old snowfall
covers the headstones...
the shadow of a shovel
Rebecca Lilly @ Port Republic, Virginia
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Wren for all Seasons
A thimble
borne on autumn leaves
A snuff box
filled with summer seeds
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Tom Thumb
perched on springtime's palm
A haiku
for a winter psalm
Richard Bonfield @ Leicester
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a matchstick spent
on formica
the smell of evening
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ai li @ belsize park
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weary of silhouettes
I want something plump
in the hand
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Larry Kimmel @ Colrain, Massachusetts
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IN THE SKIN HOUSE
There is the skin house
& there is a reason
for all this goo, sweaty
bits, either too big
or too small
It means we can walk
breath, sitting ourselves
into a balance, the feeling
of the earth, any
sentimental search
For the cliché
of being human, all that
is forgotten when joy
goes into happiness, when
the body is breathing
Graham Brown @ Bermondsey
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wasp
like time-lapse photography it was
in the air
James Morris @ Barnsley
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if another chance
should be given to me
i will catch the time
and clasp it tightly
on my palm
so that i can sing
with you again
and laugh with you
and dream with you
over and over again
shirley cahayom @ brooklyn
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broken dryer
three sheets
to the wind
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Carlos Colon @ Shreveport, Louisiana
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Maya rainbow in the clouds
lighting our path
caged bird no more
singing in a different key
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Felicity Brookesmith @ Broadstairs
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glorious golden
purple red sky
so many
flowers for the void
Graham Brown @ Bermondsey
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screams across oceans
now in aquamarine skies swifts
Felicity Brookesmith @ Broadstairs
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caught by a leg (in a discarded web)
d-r-a-g o n f l y
James Morris @ Barnsley
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Daisy Wheel
Suffer the daisies.
Come into their innocence
and forbid them not.
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They are the day's eyes
even now ringing a smile -
I turn to garlands.
Rolling away in
the slipstream of a white van -
the lei of my love.
What god of the road
punches a wrist full or air
through this daisy chain?
Susan Taylor and Simon Williams @ Scoriton
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The rain makes tiny circles in the water, a mass
of wild garlic, cuckoo flowers, seeming so hardy
so shy & delicate, protected by ash
A robin flits among hazels, the rain
thickens, creating bigger circles, water
becoming water, the circles merge, become each other
This spring we could drink from, also the soul
of this place, a thicket of willow, blackthorn
separates from the field, years later, miles away
Graham Brown @ Bermondsey
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laying the scarecrow
across the bonfire
not without qualms
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Larry Kimmel @ Colrain, Massachusetts
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Bed lamp turned low...
the moon's flicker through leaves
shadows the attic window
Rebecca Lilly @ Port Republic, Virginia
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PLATE 44, MIYAMOTO MUSAHI
Reading a book about the influence
of Zen on Japanese culture
no poem
Looking at a picture by Niten, early-
17th century, a shrike
on a dead branch
no poem
How wonderful it is when the poem writes itself!
it takes over, it surrenders
completely, it bows to the void
victorious, it is the caterpillar
crawling up the branch, the colours
of the black-&-white painting
start to sing
Graham Brown @ Bermondsey
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the storm rages -
hand shielding
the flame breasts clothed
in candlelight
she finds me
Larry Kimmel @ Colrain, Massachusetts
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nebulous shapes borne of the breath of silvery metaphors
prodigal liars
leap into faith
clouds and dancers
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Cynthia Marie @ New York
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packing away
her cotton dresses
in my autumn
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ai li @ belsize park
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OUR LAST WALK
In memory of Cody,
who left the earth June 15, 2002
Our last walk
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past the willow
has come to an end.
Slow brushing
his golden fur before
we drive him to the vet.
His last meal -
a lamb chop
quickly gobbled.
Sun glinting off
our long black car -
his head bobs up and down.
From the back seat
his whimpers
pulling at my heart.
He gives me his paw
over and over,
and then his name is called.
"Such a good looking dog,"
even at the moment
of death.
His panting stops -
a year of seizures
also gone.
Euthanasia -
consoling me,
classical guitar.
The retriever who pranced
through our neigborhood
now at one with the Golden Light.
Silence greets me
as I walk into
the house.
Cleaning up -
finding his frisbee
under a chair.
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Alexis K. Rotella @ Arnold, Maryland
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tonight
i'm left
with departures
early opening roses
in the back room
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ai li @ belsize park
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I must be there
I looked and looked
lost in other people's words
and faces
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Peter Macrow @ Sandy Bay, Tasmania
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ROOTS & WINGS
Become a seed
the tiniest
of them all
we will water you
with tears, the grief
of longing
for a name
we will call you
thistle
archangel
willowherb
you will become
a dark river, a root
of fire, the wings
of the mind
the wind
blows right through you
getting rid
of all worry
the letting-
go of self-pity
for this earth
is intelligent
this earth
is prayer
for survival
for the glory
of chaos, for love
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Graham Brown @ Bermondsey
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Aspens lace stone walls
falling to emerald pools
translucent dresses.
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Francis Raven and Carolyn Kousky @ Palo Alto, California
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The bed unmade
must I sleep under dried rushes
like a mouse among owls?
Come home, the table
is set with clean linens,
cattails and old poetry.
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Gray Blakenship @ Bremerton, Washington
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I am a glass flower under glass
hold me still
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for when I break
I wound deeply
then seal your wound with my knowing ruby mouth
brand your soul with a jealous stigmata
this is how I love
I am a glass flower under glass
hold me quiet
for when I break I injure
then taste your hurt with cruel lips boasting salient promises
you adore I receive
you descend I ascend
you exist only through me
this is how I Love
to your dreams to death
break me...
Cynthia Marie @ New York
The Intimenga was created by ai li on the 5 May 1997. For the
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and when you left
the door was ajar
crumbs
in half-light
distant thunder
ai li @ belsize park
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someday her crooked teeth
won't matter
old tombstones aslant
Larry Kimmel @ Colrain, Massachusetts
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fallen square boulder
in the emerald pool. wish i
could have seen the splash?
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Francis Raven and Carolyn Kousky @ Palo Alto, California
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under the spring moon
we trace
each others footsteps
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shirley cahayom @ brooklyn
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summer evening-
scent of mint leaves
from my cycle's basket
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K. Ramesh @ Chennai, India
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catching my breath-
the scent of lilac indoors
against your wishes
Felicity Brookesmith @ Broadstairs
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Well, so here we are
somewhere between stone and sand,
rushing water bends.
Francis Raven and Carolyn Kousky @ Palo Alto, California
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POETRY
is a funny thing, not really life, but more like a little world, just to the right-
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hand
side of it
maybe it is like those wooden seats the old monk at Chithurst used to make,
somewhere to stop for a while, where there is no wind, no rain, but often
there is
a sunset, or an oak tree through mist
these poems were written to be poems, that is, to be judged & criticized, to
be
praised & blamed as poems
but please accept them for the friendship of it, as a gift, something like what
that
scabby, gritty Welsh priest would say "Eternity/ wearing the green leaves/ of
Time"
Graham Brown @ Bermondsey
page eighty
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Starbucks cafe:
watching the snowflakes
over the steaming brew
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shirley cahayom @ brooklyn
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this used night
a suicide note
the moon
from
empty scaffolding
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ai li @ belsize park
page eighty three
Heckler
Like a device for dialysis,
You just sat there
Taking the piss.
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Jon Oyster @ Woodford Green
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page eighty five
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Valentine's Day
on the walls of the old people's home
hearts and flowers
Peter Williams @ Watford
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silent water
a photo of a brook
that foreign man
she won't tell me
his name
Carl-John X Veraja @ Fort Myers, Florida
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you smile at me
taking a sip of the moon
floating in your glass
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Felicity Brookesmith @ Broadstairs
page eighty eight
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page eighty nine
discussing plans
for the annual fund raiser
painfully aware
that beneath the white dress
there's a woman
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Larry Kimmel @ Colrain, Massachusetts
page eighty nine
BUS STOP
And
After
Twenty minutes
The bus
Came.
I hope
They make Kleenex
That big.
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Jon Oyster @ Woodford Green
page ninety
red lantern
a room
with sandalwood
embroidered slippers
with beaded peonies
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ai li @ belsize park
page ninety one
Watching Thomas
I sometimes watch you when you do not see
In an armchair, relatively huge, enveloped
By the words on a page you cannot understand,
Yet wrapped in the arms of communication.
Almost motionless you sit in an instinctive
Anticipation of a time when the key will turn
Setting you forever free
Showing you what it means to be
Human, unique and alone.
You will grapple with ideas,
When life gets too much or not enough
You will escape into fantasy
Inhabit for a time, another person's dreams
And return as and when you choose.
You will be your own person then
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In touch with the minds of millions
Yet remote from them and me.
Sheila Windsor @ Stourport on Severn
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middle-aged bachelor
still trying to think of names
for his children
Peter Williams @ Watford
page ninety four
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The diary
of love
in a chinese box.
Tatjana Debeljacki @ Nemanjina, Serbia
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UFO.
UFO
UFO
UFO
NO
Saucepan lid
In the face
Again.
Jon Oyster @ Woodford Green
page ninety six
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page ninety seven
So easily
she forgives others,
my friend
with the less than perfect
memory.
for Florence
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Alexis K. Rotella @ Arnold, Maryland
page ninety eight
crowded train
an empty seat next to the woman
who talks to herself
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Peter Williams @ Watford
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sickle moon
of january
under a haloed streetlamp
your promises
join the mist
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Tim W. Younce @ Luray, Virginia
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page one hundred and one
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it is frustrating
to see a blind man walking
thru a closed exit
and you can't do anything
because you're in the train
shirley cahayom @ brooklyn
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a thousand miles
remembering
one evening
the car
by the lake
ai li @ belsize park
page one hundred and three
You are my truth-friend, come in a far season
O for a thousand years, tomorrow it will be Spring
& together we will speak the language of flowers
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snowdrop means atonement, yarrow means helping
together we make music with earth & fire
these oceans apart. these words are made of air
hazel reconciled us, to come in a new season
I am glad you call me lover, brother, friend
Graham Brown @ Bermondesy
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original haiga copyright Sheila Windsor 2002
first published in Raw NerVZ Haiku
page one hundred and five
nouveau riche
building their own
snubdivision
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Carlos Colon @ Shreveport, Louisiana
page one hundred and six
subway ride
counting the stops
before i reach you
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shirley cahayom @ brooklyn
page one hundred and seven
suckle
honeysuckle offers
bees in loco parentis
a sweet enwombment
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Susan Taylor @ Scoriton
page one hundred and eight
original artwork copyright Larry Kimmel 2002
page one hundred and nine
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Enemas To Enemies
Remember
Keep your friends close
And your enemies
In various bell jars
Around your study.
Jon Oyster @ Woodford Green
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my best one
was the one she opened--
birthday present
J. D. Heskin @ Duluth, Minnesota
page one hundred and eleven
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silk
as far as clothes go
silk is the closest texture
to a flight feather
Susan Taylor @ Scoriton
page one hundred and twelve
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original artwork copyright ai li 2002
page one hundred and thirteen
Suicide (Slight Return)
They
Always
Say
And then he turned the pistol
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On himself
Sorry
Didn't realise
The mere rotation of a revolver
Was deadly.
Jon Oyster @ Woodford Green
page one hundred and fourteen
college journal:
pressed between the pages
valentine roses
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shirley cahayom @ brooklyn
page one hundred and fifteen
nude
in my garden
he rakes
the leaves
with green eyes
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ai li @ belsize park
page one hundred and sixteen
original artwork copyright ai li 2002
page one hundred and seventeen
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when i was a child
i kept a promise to myself
i shall never love but one man
in my life
so if you fail to return
i shall close the door
of my heart
and never love again
but if you return
i shall catch the sun
and hold it tightly
on my palm
maybe someday
i shall give you
the
sunset
tied
in
a
white
string.
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shirley cahayom @ brooklyn
page one hundred and eighteen
Cool wisps of fog
in necropolis ruins--
soft coos of roosting doves
Rebecca Lilly @ Port Republic, Virginia
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page one hundred and nineteen
lightning flash-
starting to count
I miss you
Felicity Brookesmith @ Broadstairs
page one hundred and twenty
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original artwork copyright ai li 2002
page one hundred and twenty one
My Uncle's Knee.
I sat upon my Uncle's knee
Temporarily
Forgetting he was an amputee.
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Jon Oyster @ Woodford Green
page one hundred and twenty two
she blushes
as I remove her stockings--
an old fashioned girl
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J. D. Heskin @ Duluth, Minnesota
page one hundred and twenty three
taking the onion apart
how many tears
till you touch
the heart?
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Larry Kimmel @ Colrain, Massachusetts
The Gembun was created by ai li on the 12 June 1997, inspired by Larry Kimmel's
TIBUN. For its guidelines and more examples, please click here.
page one hundred and twenty four
double glazing
twice the moon
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original artwork and haiku copyright Sheila Windsor 2002
page one hundred and twenty five
water hangs from cliffs
the world divided through the
microscope of light.
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Francis Raven and Carolyn Kousky @ Palo Alto, California
page one hundred and twenty six
The poem's black ink
runs on white paper...
through the window, sparrows sing
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Rebecca Lilly @ Port Republic, Virginia
page one hundred and twenty seven
one more glass of wine/evening darkening/you're not coming
Felicity Brookesmith @ Broadstairs
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page one hundred and twenty eight
original artwork copyright ai li 2002
page one hundred and twenty nine
morning
this day
lightly lightly
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bruce roxburgh @ tea gardens, australia
page one hundred and thirty
The sumo lifts trees
The woman lifts a bucket
Heavy with sorrow
Heavier than all mountains
One drop is mine rippling
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Martin Willitts, Jr. , Norwich, New York
page one hundred and thirty one
i climb the side walk
and think
of the trees
we hide
with
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huri ergenian @ philadelphia
page one hundred and thirty two
original artwork copyright ai li 2002
page one hundred and thirty three
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Without a word
Lanyard cold and pinging
...and numb our fingers too
holding down the service pages
flapping in November gusts:
Only the memories warming,
clinging...and then the silence
broken by the piper's elbow
and first deep breath
Guy Simser @ Kanata, Canada
page one hundred and thirty four
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sleeping puppy
out cold
the purring cat
cleans his face
with determination
his head the size
of her whole body
Erin Cowgill @ Paris
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moon caught between rocks
I gaze as I cross the bridge
breathing deep sweet sage
Francis Raven and Carolyn Kousky @ Palo Alto, California
page one hundred and thirty six
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page one hundred and thirty seven
paradise on earth
he says he loves her
putting on his trousers
to go home
to his wife
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ai li @ belsize park
page one hundred and thirty eight
POEM FOR JOY, BEING A PERSON
Wood pigeons cooing into the cool of the morning
Blue sky shimmering fresh between birches
The details of the dew on each leaf
Our daily task, to fall in love
This cutting of ragwort, bracken, thistle
The annual ritual of scything
An excuse to be joyful, something to do
In order to be whole, "they stayed asleep
So that we would find them", this purple yellow
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Green August morning, leave a few to seed
On purpose, to keep the world turning
In the Summer grass, the circle round
Graham Brown @ Bermondsey
page one hundred and thirty nine
gasping sunset
I almost missed
the lone lake swan
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Erin Cowgill @ Paris
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set my shoulder
on fire
warm your face
in my flesh
and marrow
Jon-Michael Frank @ Newtown Square, Pennsylvania
page one hundred and forty two
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How romantic:
So I left you
and now I am
Here.
Alone
in a distant land.
Distant.
Jeff Clements @ South Africa
page one hundred and forty three
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I fold paper over
Creased tight as age wrinkles
Hatching paper crane
Martin Willitts, Jr. , Norwich, New York
page one hundred and forty four
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original artwork copyright ai li 2002
page one hundred and forty five
tossing the ball
to serve-
birds in the sky
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K. Ramesh @ Chennai, India
page one hundred and forty six
gathering darkness -
the power line crosses
a pale sky
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Harold Bowes
page one hundred and forty seven
the other playground
where every mother
is ghost
and the prams
are empty
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ai li @ belsize park
page one hundred and forty eight
finis
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