Met a fellow Going to Cold Mountain To write poetry Having never heard Of Snyder or Hanshan A shrug was all That was offered Haywood county Highlands too far For regular words Scribbled in laundromats Or cheap bars on Scrap pieces of paper Often lost by morning My heart's not the same as yours

Saw a dog Chasing a leaf And laughed Saw myself Chasing a dollar And cried Sweet memories Of looking For pretty rocks #poetry #micropoetry #writing

Mind and body Liberated Only to the Extent possible Earth and Physics being As they are Heart though Still captured By another Cell bound And captive Aching or Breaking Undecided Bleeding For sure Need for escape Unreasonably Perplexing #poetry #writing #vss

Squirrel in tree laughing Neglected to write it down Haiku unrealized #poetry #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

Morning forest walk Strolling past the Sassafras Mindful expansion #haiku #poetry

In the water An image of A familiar stranger Laughing nervously As if on a First date Smiles exchanged Somewhat coyly Together perhaps We may know One another Better Daffodils Nervously growing Nearby #poetry #writing

Blue sky and white clouds Birds overhead fly away Sound of wings not heard #haiku #poetry

Always Stumbling About the edges In an effort To find where Self actually ends Lost in the shadows With shoelacees untied Assigned a name And trained a little Then released Into the labyrinth In a dim light Looking for questions Not too inconvenient For answers #poetry #writing

Old delicatessen On yesterday's Street corner Rye bread sandwich Served with a side Of potato salad Lounging on A lettuce leaf Ancient memories On auto-rotate While resting In the park #poetry #writing

Whenever he Used the word "Absolutely" The question mark Was always implied The word "flawless" Lounging loosely On the floor Rhetoric of A galactic nomad Briefly passing Through Preaching a gospel Of a more temporary Permanence #poetry

Nothing As it seems And somehow out of place... Just thoughts And words Conspiring to be done Footsteps In a dream remembered One in front Of another #poetry

All she wanted Was a cheese Sandwich And a nap The genie Gave her A funny look And threw in A side of chips Into the forest She walked Looking for A suitable tree #poetry

#Intuition she said Makes navigation Possible Otherwise we'd Just wander round One end to the other Without a clue He laughed because He thought that's What they were doing To be lost on purpose Is a good start He replied Happenstance And synchronicity Is the lost map Of the universe #poetry

Whatever happens Can't help but think for the best The blind love of fate #haiku #poetry #help

Puddles full... ...of unimagined dreams Wheel ravished Attempting To be the splash Corduroy trousers Waiting for the bus Patiently #poetry

Not looking Underneath The bed For all the Monsters That might Be found A veritable Low rent district Of creature Comfort Only in dreams Brave enough To find solace In such a Neighborhood All the mask Momentarily Discarded #poetry

In moonlight And tearful The sky above Wondrous Bright enough To see but Dark enough For peace Moments alone But not lonely Basking in The contentedness Of Shine from above Able to feel True emotion #poetry #tearful

Quarter on sidewalk In nineteen sixty-seven Running to the store #haiku #senryu #poetry

Often in The wrong Direction Full of doubt And full of Confidence Simultaneously On the way To a good Starting point Silver clouds In a blue sky Not doubting True direction #poetry #writing

Never changed Because another person Wanted it to happen Nor changed because It would be better Didn't even change When it was wanted Change only happened When the universe shifted And not aware enough To not misstep Only years later Before noticed But by then It was too late #poetry

Just because You trust the process Doesn't mean The process Trust you She said We do what We must But also What we can I'll put it back If you want me to He replied But you weren't Using it Anymore She wasn't Listening though Thinking out loud While scribbling In her diary #poetry #writing

Thinking fondly Of all the memories Not remembered Gone with the Passage of time And in their place Stories told too often The actual facts Replaced with something Just a little bit More memorable And even that Exaggerated upon Unintentionally Elaborating the very Essence of life #poetry

With only Thinnest sliver Of crescent left The moon Enters darkness and emerges new Once again Cycle of renewal A constant reminder Every moment Is a time to be reborn The earth And the moon Even the stars Aligned for willingness A passage waiting For the sound of footsteps #poetry

Thoughts alone With the self That is sitting By the lake Moonglade on The water admired Wondering who Is the one thinking About odd words And natural phenomena Suspected to be An imaginary Construct of An entity Once removed And a body In the employ Of another #poetry #moonglade

Coffee and table Without thought pencil employed Shy breakfast written #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #employ

Creekside in the sun Thoughts curiously absent Water on its way #poetry #haiku #micropoetry

All writing Presupposes Misinterpretation Words written Know not how Other eyes Might hear The sound of Light on a Horizon unseen #poetry #writing

With great reluctance Hand slipping from another's The journey begins #poetry #haiku #micropoetry

In dreams The days happenings Reinvented So as to know True meaning Commonplace drudgery Of waking life Full of treasure Once reality is Temporarily Set aside Spirit knows best While walking In the realm Shade of night The color of the sun #poetry #writing #dreams

Sometimes Not often What is Essential Is more so So much so Counting is Required One hand Will do Unless Of course Digitally Deficient No matter Where it Used to be Will do Imaginary Though it be Still included In it's absence #poetry #writing