post-Christmas Full-moon rise

spooky ghost clutch ~ palmate bamboo shadows dance ~ occult full-moon fête

contemplative senryu

total immersion / in whatever you are doing /  contemplative zone

Like Winter Light

Like Winter Light / chilly cloud of unknowing / foggy boggy naughty ;)

Xmas panther screaks

Christmas in the Glades / midnight panther screams erhu / screaks resonate bones //

Bumbly Dom & Lee

Avast ye in the bumbly windward and lee,

'Tis Dom rules but the beruled one is Dee;

Strange that all this difference should be, 

'Twix bumbly Bumbledom and Bumbledee.

Old timey Opry train

Old timey Opry train / Orange Blossom Express tune / fiddle breakdown whOO!

uncanny valley senkyu

horripilation / uncanny valley panic / strangely familiar....

notes on Uncanny Valley Theory:  http://www.arclight.net/~pdb/nonfiction/uncanny-valley.html

palm8s haiku

gelid bamboo palm8s / tremble in shivery / c-cool n-noontide  

all-in-the-family epitaph

Gymbo Contranym / said to be his own grampa / duteous grand sire

Sunset haiku trio (10 December 2012)

Sunset amazing / pink and teal and peach frosting / SciFiMag cover

Tangled tides colour / Southwest horizon Sunset / sulfur butterfly

Jet murmuration / starling formation seen / 'gainst sunset effulgence

Sunday squirmin'

slippin' 'n' slidin' / oleaginous naked / dogpile folly

nicety

sometimes my / nicety frightens / even me

decedance of decadence

that which arises / is going to pass away / nature's decedance //

 #sic #decadence #φυσις #ΦΥΣΙΣ

Sphinx oxymoron ~ plus irony

Sphinx oxymoron ~ zygnomic zeugma ~ Sharia is freedom

Flyku to EU ... an EULogy

hap pity boom pa / pah und hap pee fly day to /  EU  haha ha!

Fall haiku

Fall day vivid scene / holly berries glowing red / foliage as bright green 

Whispers in Autumn

Whispers in Autumn / darkling angel prompts from wings / mortality hints

insouciant cuckolds

"Cuckold!' long ago / stained men's honor, called for blood / the West now cares less.

wind song augury (senryu)

wind song in high trees / augurs read in ancient times / for war strategies

storm dragons

Sounds of the city / morning rainstorm mopey background / amalgamating


Noontide sun surprise / throbbing life is quickening / eye of rain dragon


Sudden hail salvo / bites rattling on my shutters / teeth of storm dragon 

Garden desolate?

Overgrown bushes / palmate bamboo glad hands / desolate garden / Zephyr's / dancing

Mystic Moon Appears

Boredom departs as / Moon appears mid pear branches / Mystic evening dew

Ovid ex ponto 4.8.55

"Di quoque carminibus,/ si fas est dicere,/ fiunt." wrote Publius Ovidius Naso

my translation: Even the gods, I dare say (if one be allowed to say), were created in poems.

Exosinan Clouds

troppo rains today / blown over from China seas / exosinan clouds

Rushmore Naught

 rainy Sunday night / seldom street traffic, swishing / forward into naught

October squirrel

drunken squirrel / sleeping it off on a branch today / figs fermenting

October Noon

palmate bamboo / digit shadows dancing scene / chiaroscuro

been catnapped

******* stealthy shadow / creeps up behind and naps mind / nodded off again *****

cricketing nights, cicada days plus birdsong

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all cricketing night / cricket cricket cricket til / birds rouse cicadas

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Moon wanes

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Moon is on the wane / late rising soon darkling but / her beam shall broaden

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Pelf-Dragon

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in Mount Erebor / on the dwarven hoard golden / slept pelf-dragon Smaug

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myrobalan knights

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gibbous Moon plodding / gimping longer Fall darker / myrobalan knights


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The Snake Pit

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ululant snake pit \ mad howls mind-shattering screams \ horrors resounding

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Curiosity

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Curiosity / real beginning of science / not evil at all / motivates the inquiry / records data statistics

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bright sun shines departs

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crows complaining caw / ocean breezes visiting / bright sun shines departs

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pure gold sunset

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pure gold afterglow ~ cloud banks gray above pearly ~ gates guard the pure gold

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storm front canvas

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Storm front come from West ~ canvas for lambent light show ~ suddenly sunset ~ Hyperion analog ~ Apollo hyperbole

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a tale of physique

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growing maturing / visiogenic physique / matured and ageing

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Paisley ambi Moon

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shining Moon appears / crystalline white with halo / paisley ambi pear

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drinking hot chai in Istanbul brothel-quarter

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Elegant tin zarf / holds hot chai glass tea-boys vend / Istanbul brothels

In Istanbul zarf is commonly seen in the genelev çeyrek holding çay bardakları on trays carried by çay-erkek.

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Moon Transit July 29, 2012

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waxing gibbous moon ~ bright and sparkling transit now ~ limpid air black sky

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Lunar Tunes

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sundown alchemie ~ SE half moon NW sun ~ horizon beige rose

Moon hiding tonight ~ darts gleams through white cloud fluff clefts ~ midnight blue surrounds

Odalisque moon pose / cumulo-nimbus divan / languid midnight shines

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I | I

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I to I.. egotists conflict.. acting out.. their ego.. ideal ||

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thuddering sunset twaikus

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thudding bass echoes \ cloud ranks mauve and grey bankroll'd \ salute to sunset

bass thunder marshals / mauve poufs through skies of gray / sunset serenade

roiling thunder clouds ~ suite mauve bars and gris-gris shades ~ hoodooing sundown

thunders meet lightnings ~ great game in our skies tonight ~ nature sure to win

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ce soir le coucher de soleil chez moi

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Sunset rose pastel / in cave under fuscous cloud / calm peaceful silence

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LSD

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one oblivious / yet fear finds some self sometimes / psychedelic fog

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ASS TERROID {in the news}

******* boom asteroid bang / California Nevada / bang ass terroid boom *****

post heliotropic sky

******* after Sunset glow / peach-mango spectral cream cake / blue sky pink cloudlets // *****

Spring happenings

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Spring happenings / awakening of the insects / first flies then spiders

Golden treasuries / beneath dark mountains hidden / cumulus dungeon

Rain-forest showers / unseen dew falling moisture / growing love-seed rains.

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kinky spring

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kinky spring ~ barbed wire fuckings and fightings ~ house sparrows

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humbugger and the coladingers

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synergy / boost my roost like a bad beagle / Abbaton / prepel her / propeller

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shite harum scarum ~ helicopter propeller ~ helter skelter flight

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rumble ~ trouble Apollyon foil ~ tumble

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Babylon bible joke

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How long Lord Ya ~ we been embibling babble-babble-on ~ by them waters?

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nut famine

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cannibal squirrels ~ unsparing chase and battle ~ Death gives hieron

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