Where The Wind Whisks me Away…
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To Quote is to Live:
“And of my raving, shame is the fruit, and repentance, and the clear knowledge that whatever pleases in the world is a brief dream“
— Petrarch
“Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.”
— Lady Murasaki Shikibu
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Lover’s Lament
A lilting melody on a moonless night and I think of her. She was a lustrous reality, I merely perception. A wilting bloom crumbles in my palm and I pine for her. She was endless oasis, I but a wandering thirst. A guilting belief befalls my brambled heart, and I can’t forget her. She was Read more
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Reminiscences From A Teapot
The brittle leaves upon a bitter gale Scrape the tattered roads in autumn sun pale. I raise my cup; the Black Dragon’s broth swells Coral and catharsis cascades my tongue. Sacred ceramic warms while florals tell Of Darjeeling, its misty slopes far flung. I wander across the orient to lush Leaf-green fields and hibiscuses’ sweet Read more
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A Lantern in the Philosophical Dark: An Explanation of Hobbes.
What I noticed first was the chick’s bloodied beak and grotesquely mangled neck. The sorry thing had fallen from its nest, which I now saw perched precariously on the lush bougainvillea vine that lustily propagated itself across the lintel of my garage. The Californian sun, normally a friend to all who basked in her sublime Read more
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Dreaming of Rosie
Of affection long begotten, Of feelings long forgotten, Of pleasures long since partaken, Of sights my eyes were delighted to have beholden, Let me forget… for I feel myself thinking, Without them, I and my soul shall be left yearning, Yes, yearning, For a time when love was enduring, For winter nights when I and Read more
Where the Wind Whisks Me Away... 