To the Masters | Haiku Per Day

June 20, 2021August 1, 2021Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for Dr. Boss and W.B. Yeats on Father’s Day 2021 The wild things were real. Inside everyone’s mind: islands — in its […]

June 18, 2021August 1, 2021Human Condition, To the Masters

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for Maurice Sendak Just a bunch of fucking children crying “Wolf!” in ill-fitting clothes. Love0 Share Tweet

June 12, 2021August 1, 2021Health & Wellness, Moments of Life, To the Masters

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for Holden Caulfield Rollerskating angel weaving infinity upon the pavement. Love0 Share Tweet

May 30, 2021June 4, 2021Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for Charles Dickens I drag these chains of pains both dealt and caused — Marley moaning at my side Love0 Share Tweet

May 20, 2021June 3, 2021To the Masters

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for Rupi Kaur Celestial earthling — a Cleopatra clothed in robes of ink and honey. Love0 Share Tweet

May 13, 2021June 3, 2021Moments of Life, To the Masters

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for Dr. Boss on his 35th Sit up straight, pick up your pen. Beneath banana trees, listen — the wind. Love0 Share […]

May 4, 2021Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Nature, To the Masters

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for Walt Whitman A gentle breeze stirs grass and leaves; we’re but ants among blades of trees. Love0 Share Tweet

April 30, 2021May 2, 2021Human Condition, To the Masters

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for Atticus Love’s so easy hopping Parisian puddles betwixt kisses — while drunk. Love0 Share Tweet

April 26, 2021April 27, 2021Human Condition, Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for Dante — and my 35th Thirty-five: I look behind — and see the halfway journey of my life. Love0 Share Tweet

April 18, 2021April 27, 2021Human Condition, Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for Nilanjan Bhomick Writing is man’s great rebellion against a purposeless universe. Love0 Share Tweet

April 5, 2021April 29, 2021Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for my father, 11 years since There’s not much to say as I stare at your grave. I’m here, you’re there. […]

April 3, 2021April 27, 2021"Short Story", Daily Haiku, Nature, To the Masters

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“The Giving Bench” for Shel Silverstein “Here, sit on me,” said the bench. “Watch the sun nudge the yawning spring awake.” Love0 Share […]

March 26, 2021March 28, 2021"Short Story", To the Masters

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for Wallace Stevens The iceman groans with cracking bones — stretches in the oppressive, spring sun. Love0 Share Tweet

March 6, 2021March 7, 2021I was there..., Moments of Life, To the Masters

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I was there… Deux Magots Cafe. Smoke meets melting clouds halfway. Parisian rain emphasizing gray. Love0 Share Tweet

February 28, 2021March 7, 2021I was there..., To the Masters

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I was there… L’Hotel. Mr. Wilde, what’s wrong with the wallpaper? Candles faking flames. Love0 Share Tweet

February 15, 2021Daily Haiku, Human Condition, To the Masters

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for James Joyce …an unbroken chain of umbilical veins to the first leads unto… Love0 Share Tweet

February 7, 2021February 9, 2021To the Masters

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for Achilles and Frank Stanford Such thoughts I had, running a finger along the length of its edge. Love0 Share Tweet

February 6, 2021February 7, 2021Daily Haiku, To the Masters

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for Tom Brady Achilles alone — gazing past war’s aftermath, squinting in the sun. Love0 Share Tweet

February 4, 2021February 5, 2021Collecting the soil..., Daily Haiku, To the Masters

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for W.B. Yeats Beyond the breeze-chopped lakes, past reticent trees: our inner Innisfrees. Love0 Share Tweet

February 2, 2021February 3, 2021Daily Haiku, Human Condition, To the Masters

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for Rumi There are many wines — to each their own ecstasy, to each their own light. Love0 Share Tweet

January 31, 2021Daily Haiku, To the Masters

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for Edgar Allan Poe When at last my vile path led me to its walls — ravaged: Eldorado. Love0 Share Tweet

January 29, 2021Daily Haiku, To the Masters

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for Emily Dickinson Pen – a magic wand – with a quick flourish of wrist, Gods and worlds are bound. Love0 Share […]

January 1, 2021January 5, 2021Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for Counting Crows The last thing you said, as you were leaving, echoes off these dawn-drenched walls. Love0 Share Tweet

December 29, 2020December 30, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, To the Masters

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for Kurt Vonnegut So it goes: wake, eat, work, eat, sleep — repeat. Love0 Share Tweet

December 28, 2020December 31, 2020I was there..., Moments of Life, To the Masters

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I was there… Viareggio. The road of kings led me to this beach, to this sea in Italy. Love0 Share Tweet

December 21, 2020December 30, 2020Human Condition, Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for Lord Byron Imagine if we lived our entire lives thinking only of ourselves… Love0 Share Tweet

December 12, 2020December 14, 2020Human Condition, Nature, To the Masters

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for Larry Gates We fill birds and trees with our philosophies; they simply answer, “Be.” Love0 Share Tweet

December 11, 2020December 14, 2020Nature, To the Masters

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for John Keats …fade away into the forest dim… followed by whining, grinding gears… Love0 Share Tweet

November 28, 2020Daily Haiku, To the Masters

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for Robert Frost And you took the road less traveled — leading to my alphabetized books. Love0 Share Tweet

November 21, 2020November 26, 2020Moments of Life, To the Masters

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for Gary Hotham She rises from the moonlit lake, shaking stars from her radiant hair. Love0 Share Tweet

November 10, 2020November 10, 2020Daily Haiku, Moments of Life, Nature, To the Masters

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for Jack Kerouac Full moon crackling through leafless branches — the same hope, an old hope. Love0 Share Tweet

November 9, 2020November 10, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Nature, To the Masters

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for Jack Kerouac The twisting branches take the roundabout way to eternity. Love0 Share Tweet

November 7, 2020November 10, 2020Moments of Life, Nature, To the Masters

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for Jack Kerouac Autumn afternoon — the leafless tree waits patiently… for what? Love0 Share Tweet

November 6, 2020November 10, 2020Nature, To the Masters

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for Jack Kerouac Falling autumn leaves — some, for a moment, chase the sun. Love0 Share Tweet

November 5, 2020November 10, 2020Moments of Life, To the Masters

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for Jack Kerouac Nap upon nap — a sleeping cat on a blanketed lap. Love0 Share Tweet

November 1, 2020November 3, 2020To the Masters

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for Gregory Corso Death, like a monkey’s paw, curls around the fore-defeated stars. Love0 Share Tweet

October 30, 2020Daily Haiku, Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for Robert Frost I’m one acquainted with the night — last to sleep, first up in morning’s light. Love0 Share Tweet

October 29, 2020November 10, 2020Moments of Life, Nature, To the Masters

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for Joy Harjo In between the poet’s pauses — words mix with crickets’ chirping verse. Love0 Share Tweet

October 23, 2020October 30, 2020"Short Story", Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for Samuel Beckett All the poems I lost over the bridge. I watch, nothing to be done. Love0 Share Tweet

October 16, 2020October 17, 2020Human Condition, To the Masters

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for Grendel Sometimes we forget that even monsters have their stories. Love0 Share Tweet

October 5, 2020October 8, 2020Self-Realization, To the Masters

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To the Master(s) It’s time for rhymes – you have the rest of your life to kill yourself to death. Love0 […]

October 1, 2020October 2, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, To the Masters

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for Kansas If all we are is dust in the wind, at least there’s dust and wind. Love0 Share Tweet

September 29, 2020September 29, 2020Human Condition, Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for Haruki Murakami I close my eyes with everything I have — please… just let me fade away… […]

September 28, 2020September 29, 2020Daily Haiku, To the Masters

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for Hermann Hesse O, the paradox! disregard all life’s suffering — breathe, embrace the void. Love0 Share Tweet

September 24, 2020September 27, 2020Human Condition, Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for Basho Another year gone — pen in my hand, reams of unmarked pages. Love0 Share Tweet

September 23, 2020September 27, 2020Nature, To the Masters

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for Issa There are no laws or Gods in nature — breath, sex, death, a vague tomorrow. Love0 Share Tweet

September 22, 2020September 27, 2020Human Condition, Nature, To the Masters

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for Issa Leaves slowly turning— the lives we yearn for, far off, lost in idle pasts. Love0 Share […]

September 21, 2020September 27, 2020Human Condition, To the Masters

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for Joy Harjo Her mystic smile, framed in stars — the heaviness of being a man. Love0 Share Tweet

September 20, 2020September 27, 2020Nature, To the Masters

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for Issa calligraphy of bats against the barn —weaving moonlit flight Love0 Share Tweet

September 16, 2020September 17, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, To the Masters

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for Allen Ginsberg An old man, the wilting rose — greedily sipping the last drops of joy. Love0 Share Tweet

September 15, 2020September 17, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature, To the Masters

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for Stanford M. Forrester My haiku about the dawn — outdone by the morning sun. Love0 Share Tweet

September 14, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature, To the Masters

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for Issa What a strange thing! fleas upon a cat, us upon this Earth. Love0 Share Tweet

September 13, 2020September 14, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for George Orwell Brooding on enormity it’s hard to see what’s in front of your nose. Love0 Share Tweet

September 12, 2020September 14, 2020Human Condition, Nature, To the Masters

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for Issa “How can someone treat a dog like that,” he roars, tearing apart his steak. Love0 Share Tweet

September 10, 2020September 11, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature, To the Masters

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for Margaret Gibson Morning dawns an ode. Noon pens flowery prose. Eve croons to the stars and moon. Love0 Share Tweet

August 22, 2020August 29, 2020Human Condition, To the Masters

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for Haruki Murakami Time moves like a wagon with a loose axle – towards the final stop. Love1 Share Tweet

August 21, 2020August 28, 2020"Short Story", To the Masters

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for Haruki Murakami At the bottom of a deep, dark well – I am become a shadow. Love0 Share Tweet

August 6, 2020August 10, 2020Human Condition, To the Masters

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for Gregory Corso Always the back of Allen and Jack; laughter dies long after the jest. Love0 Share Tweet

August 4, 2020August 4, 2020Daily Haiku, Pandemic, Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for Kristin George Bagdanov The architecture of your hand builds me from the ashes I’ve become. Love0 Share Tweet

August 3, 2020August 4, 2020Daily Haiku, Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for Margaret Gibson Cursed by perfect – and dwindling lives – but sometimes the making is enough. Love0 Share Tweet

July 29, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, To the Masters

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for Kristin George Bagdanov We share the labors of this world — making nothing again and again. Love0 Share Tweet

July 27, 2020July 28, 2020Moments of Life, To the Masters

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for Kevin Goodan the molecules of scent you left on the pillow kept me up all night Love0 Share Tweet

July 25, 2020July 27, 2020Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for Gregory Corso O the whole tradgedy ! the weight of it ! I myself am my own fool. Love0 Share Tweet

July 22, 2020July 22, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature, To the Masters

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for Gregory Corso I think of us all lost in stars; in the trem’bling urgency of night. Love0 Share Tweet

July 19, 2020July 20, 2020To the Masters

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for Dr. Hunter S. Thompson A cigarette – lit – between your lips — fingertips click-clacking out truth. Love1 Share Tweet

July 17, 2020July 17, 2020Daily Haiku, Human Condition, To the Masters

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for RHCP Lucid lotos-eaters lounging on loam; eyes just mirrors for the sun. Love0 Share Tweet

July 11, 2020July 20, 2020Daily Haiku, Favorites, Moments of Life, To the Masters

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for Jack Kerouac night still-lonely — flick’ring candles dancing with the shadows on the page Love0 Share Tweet

July 2, 2020July 2, 2020Daily Haiku, Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for F. Scott Fitzgerald “First you take a drink, and then the drink takes a drink – then the drink takes you.” […]

June 30, 2020June 30, 2020Daily Haiku, Nature, To the Masters

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for Cormac McCarthy Like a distant memory, the morning groundmist now hardened black clay Love1 Share Tweet

June 28, 2020June 29, 2020Daily Haiku, Favorites, To the Masters

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for Orpheus “Was it worth it,” I ask, “losing her to make the Gods weep with your song?” Love0 Share Tweet

June 25, 2020June 25, 2020Daily Haiku, To the Masters

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for Robinson Jeffers This immense rock is but a spectral fragment, spinning through eternity Love0 Share Tweet

June 21, 2020June 22, 2020Daily Haiku, Favorites, Nature, To the Masters

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reading Basho in the rain – raindrops reciting him back Love0 Share Tweet

June 12, 2020June 20, 2020"Short Story", Favorites, Nature, To the Masters

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for Mary Oliver “Please stop ascribing your pathetic fallacies on me,” piped the rose. Love0 Share Tweet

June 10, 2020June 20, 2020Nature, To the Masters

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for Somaz She bleeds her verse as raindrops tip-toe to the fields, prancing in thunder. Love0 Share Tweet

May 27, 2020June 20, 2020Nature, To the Masters

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for Mary Oliver Through the window we could see how far it was to the gates of April. Love0 Share Tweet

May 18, 2020June 20, 2020Human Condition, To the Masters

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for John Steinbeck We lift our weary eyes, kneel in benevolence to a God unknown. Love0 Share Tweet

May 16, 2020June 20, 2020Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for Cervantes Like Don Quixote’s armor, rusted with neglect, my pen idly clots. Love0 Share Tweet

May 15, 2020June 20, 2020Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for Herman Melville It’s time I took to sea; my soul is a damp, gray, drizzly November. Love0 Share Tweet

May 13, 2020June 20, 2020"Short Story", To the Masters

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for Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ulysses belches, scratches his belly, gazes longingly to sea. Love0 Share Tweet

April 26, 2020June 19, 2020Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for Charles Dickens 34 – a trail of unfinished poems and verse cling like Marley’s chains. Love0 Share Tweet

April 20, 2020June 20, 2020"Short Story", To the Masters

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for Lewis Carrol How convenient to explain away the fantasy with a dream. Love0 Share Tweet

April 15, 2020June 20, 2020"Short Story", To the Masters

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for Helen I would launch these ships again for but one last kiss of your trembling lips. Love0 Share Tweet

April 14, 2020June 20, 2020Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for Gabriel Garcia Marquez My judicious first impression quietly slinks off stage right. Love0 Share Tweet

April 9, 2020June 19, 2020Human Condition, To the Masters

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for Willy Shakes When it all ends, what will be the last syllable of recorded time? Love0 Share Tweet

April 6, 2020June 19, 2020"Short Story", To the Masters

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for Erica Jong 1. The poem stalks towards my motionless palm, sniffs a couple times — then runs. 2. I feign […]

April 3, 2020June 19, 2020Favorites, Nature, To the Masters

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for Jack Kerouac The mourning dove sings awake the melancholy morning. Love0 Share Tweet

March 28, 2020June 19, 2020Human Condition, To the Masters

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for Chuck Palahniuk Doesn’t it seem like we’re waiting for a turn to talk that never comes? Love0 Share Tweet

March 18, 2020June 19, 2020Pandemic, To the Masters

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Bunkering down in fear and loathing… We need you Hunter. Love0 Share Tweet

March 12, 2020June 19, 2020Moments of Life, To the Masters

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for Percy That look you gave me seemed so pointed; so honest in the moment. Love0 Share Tweet

March 9, 2020June 19, 2020"Short Story", Favorites, To the Masters

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for Jack Kerouac Splashed madness walls of dripping paint […]

March 3, 2020June 19, 2020"Short Story", To the Masters

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for Margaret Gibson Because the threads are torn and fraying; I keep it hidden in my trunk. Love0 Share Tweet

February 29, 2020June 20, 2020To the Masters

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for F. Scott Fitzgerald “Let’s not talk of it, it takes the magic dust off of butterfly’s wings.” Love0 Share Tweet

February 27, 2020June 19, 2020Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for Robert Frost I think I can get back — but one day the road will bend beyond my view. Love0 Share […]

February 24, 2020June 19, 2020Self-Realization, To the Masters

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for Leo Tolstoy You will never know the Answer, just walk in right direction. Love0 Share Tweet

February 18, 2020June 19, 2020Nature, To the Masters

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for Jack Kerouac Rainfall tings the roof and puddles… I think, “Free car-wash…” Love0 Share Tweet

February 15, 2020June 19, 2020Moments of Life, To the Masters

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for John Keats That hellish moment drowned in dark, when you bid it take your quiet breath. Love0 Share Tweet

February 4, 2020June 17, 2020Human Condition, To the Masters

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for Aldous Huxley We all have an island in our mind – built to our unique perfections. Love0 Share Tweet

February 2, 2020June 17, 2020To the Masters

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for Percy youthfulness and innocence – choking on relentless waves Love0 Share Tweet

January 17, 2020June 16, 2020To the Masters

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for Shel Silverstein Rhymes and lines of my youth – scribbled in black and white in my mind. Love0 Share Tweet

January 10, 2020June 16, 2020To the Masters

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for John Keats What’s life when you peak too young? You’re left with a cloy’d yearning, a parched tongue. Love0 Share Tweet

January 8, 2020June 16, 2020To the Masters

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for Emily Bronte Why choose happiness when this misery is so awfully complete? Love0 Share Tweet