Not another sound

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My picture.

Sprawled on a hard bed,
trying to read Bukowski.
Night runs through the campus,
half a world away.

As I see the sky,
sleep comes wearily.
Darkness, silence
and a dialogue with old age.

Then a tree shift,
to half a moon.
With fireflies dancing,
and bluing with night fall.

Blackout

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My picture: Electricity loss is a common occurrence…so when it happens (as it did tonight)…I try and be creative 🙂

No power again tonight,

a field of evening silence.

Shadows caught on nails

and poems by candlelight.

 

Distant mountains muttering thunder,

releasing the clouds

one by one….. by one.

As the wildflowers,

let the years slip away.

Walking in the garden with Qu Yuan

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My drawing: Today is Dragon Boat Festival in China: The Dragon Boat Festival (Duanwu Festival, Duānwǔ Jié, Double Fifth, Tuen Ng Jit) is a traditional holiday that commemorates the life and death of the famous Chinese scholar Qu Yuan (Chu Yuan).The festival occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month on the Chinese lunisolar calendar. So…I sketched this drawing of Qu Yuan (a poet and politician)

 

I did not know you last night,

then the doctors and nurses

….. the souls of China….

told me about your mountain spirit

and banners of cassia.

 

So I thought of bamboo groves,

and sky still unseen.

And how the thunder rumbles

and rain darkens

after all these years.

Halcyon days

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My picture: My apartment….

Years ago I was living in a different place,
writing at that window facing the main street.
And then you came by…..
lightning guided by the gods.
A sea of cherry blossom, wave after wave.

And now…..
I write at a different window, facing East.
But with traces of those ancient moments,
and stones here and there.
A shade of a white willow tree.