in a zen temple
near Arashiyama, an old man
dragged neat lines...
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(Note: I wrote this a week or so ago when I was in the hospital. Am home now and trying to recover. So, it's really not bleak, I think. 🙂 )
broken, broken world
or is it me
seeing cracks on still water
seeing wounds instead of flowers...
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The uber waits.
The Trinity signal takes about four minutes to
change. If we clear it, we will be swallowed by the
multi-level procession on M. G. Road: the bikes,
the pedestrians, the lumbering cars...
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That the stripes on the monster’s skin
are shadows of stout cage bars
should not offer...
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The poem expands in the hollows inside me
like sacredness slowly builds up to ten-
dimensional rapture. Silence echoes like
a refrain. I imagine...
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February brings us bee-vision.
Colours switch. Centres shift.
The evil hydra...
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Everything begs a name.
We have an existential impulse to label
the seen, the felt...
another morning
another theatre of impunity
another threat...
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Over a billion birds die each year from
collisions with glass planes. They believe
the reflections...
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Here’s my first poem of the new year. Hope 2026 is gentle and kind and full of creative energy. A very happy new year to all at WordPress. I look forward to reading and sharing more poetry this year! Check out more of my posts on Substack or Instagram (@tp_poetry).
10-9-8-
another year:
with the usual tropes and lights
and the usual...
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THOUGHT PURGE 