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Month: October 2020

on communication – iv

I get tricked by communication more times than I like to admit.

communication, lies, phishing, social media, SoCS, trick, truth

on communication – iii

making sounds is not enough

#haikai, #haiku, #tanka, listening, understanding

on communication – ii

all send words of war or peace

#communication, #haikai, #haiku, #tanka, peace, war

on communication – i

foundations of war or peace

#haikai, #haiku, #tanka, communication, double reed, innocence, oboe, vibrate, vocal cords, vocalise

It’s Coming.

into her cavernous gullet everything goes.

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, fear

love and the cosmos

the closer we get to “getting it”, the more there is to “get”.

absolutes, answers, Big Bang, Dark Energy, earth-centric, flat earth, objective, questions, subjective, systems, truth

Sonnet XI – machete jungle

’tis as I feared, we’ve entered zone called “friends”;in search of different – more – though this is fun.while something … More

dating, friendship, relationships

starts with ‘m’… Every. Single. Day. #SoCS

you could wake up to way worse.

comparison, messy, perspective

under repair

so much work yet to be done.

#haikai, #haiku, #tanka, mental health, Mental Illness, process, psychiatrist, psychologist

in dashikis and love beads

a drive-by earthrise in dashiki and love beads

whistling in the graveyard

flesh-stripped scaffolding sharply buttress a new kind of body.

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, breathing, cemetery, graveyard, superstition

life imitates

I see some imitation here

imitation, life imitates art, morning

Creatio ex nihilo

a lone voice
asking its questions
innocently,
plaintively,
into the void.

A Major, Adagio, K 488, Mozart, pain, perfection, Piano Concerto, pleasure

New Driver – #SoCS

It’s time.

#SoCS, driver's license, driving, license, spelling

full power – #SoCS

If we’re gonna hang, you gotta hang with me – vocabulary and all.

#SoCS

flesh

oxygen ~ without it – dead in minutes.

massage, survival, touch, yearn

Land of the Free?

Alas, the dream of freedom fades ~ You scoff and think I overstate.

#decima

Mittwoch

Midweek is now here

#haikai, #haiku, #tanka, middle

Sonnet X – night blindness

The thing most true was never true for me / until one day it dawned and ended night.

darkness, falsehood, light, shadow, tripping, truth

insandouts of Days and Notdays

#nationaldayof…..

#nationalchickenandwafflesday, #nationalcomingoutday, Columbus Day, Indigenous Peoples Day

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