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Category Archives: Poem
Stargazing
To be lost and to have lost Such a slight difference in semantics Spans experiential orders of magnitude To seek or to find Lost in a sea of strangers Small cities pulsing to these rhythms To relate those tones Sounds … Continue reading
Posted in Poem, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged anxiety, free verse poetry, poem, poems, poetry, writing
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Work haiku
Lunch interrupted And a missed call, voice message detailing email Explain exceptions to set true expectations/ damn no good fraudsters Defining limits, separating unity/ harsh parameters
Posted in daily haiku, Haiku, Poem, Poetry
Tagged daily haiku, English haiku, micro poems, poetry, writing
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Entire days spent chasing suits that don’t exist and serve no purpose, Tearing money out of pocket just to find door-like cable box–– A bleary disillusionment sweeps like ice across kindled hope, And each bit of anxiety falls away and … Continue reading
Posted in Poem, Poetry
Tagged anger, anxiety, business suits, chase, disillusion, english, poetry, sales, scams, swindle, time and money, volition, waste
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The Pythagoreans
“It’s never a good idea,” they told him sternly, “to urinate towards the Sun.” The forms are inverted, flipped on themselves to reveal untouched states Breaths in deep cold splitting like fractal patterns in frost spanning the windshield
Posted in Haiku, Poem, Poetry
Tagged cold front, English haiku, fractal patterns, inverted haiku, is there a name for that?, math, never a good idea, repeating, splitting, states, sun, untouched, urinate, weather, windshield
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Thoughts on Biographies about Salinger, Beethoven
Striving for greatness, or an inner peace; Dreams of creation versus an actuality of their destruction? Nature carved to fit the shape of minds, the form of transience–– raw intangibility etched into granite, like a perversion of entropy: endless impermanence. … Continue reading
Posted in Poem, Poetry
Tagged creation, destruction, english, entropy, existential dread, impermanence, inner peace, moral compass, original, oscillate, poem, poetry, recognition, transience, writing
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$12/hr
The hourly wage, watching cents add up almost as fast as your bills A dim afternoon looms like lost prosperity, a chilled breath escapes
Posted in Haiku, Poem, Poetry
Tagged English haiku, hourly wage, micro poems, prosperity, quick read, reconsideration, resignation, underpaid
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Land of Opportunity
Now return home, resume your economic anxiety A world and an age, for which I am not suited, taunts incessantly
Posted in Haiku, Poem, Poetry
Tagged anachronism, anxiety, contemplation, economics, English haiku, exhaustion, jobs, micro poems, plans, prosperity, taunt
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Worlds away from worlds away
A night’s sleep squandered on dreams and reality filled with mosquitos Semi-circles carved by the squat waves and rip tides lining the whole beach Rocking with the swell upon a traditional Sundanese wood skiff: wooden planks, earthen waterproofing, its posts … Continue reading
Posted in Haiku, Poem, Poetry
Tagged diving, English haiku, fishing, Indonesia, internal conflict, maritime activities, micro poems, moral crisis, mosquitos, poetry, snorkeling, Sundan, waves
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Riding to Southwest Java
Two dimensional mountains shift to their true depth, emerge from the sky City smog recedes, and palm tree forests arise along the steep slopes Jagged landscape plunges into crashing sea heavy as lead The last light dwindles, flattening our distinctions … Continue reading
Posted in Haiku, Poem, Poetry
Tagged altered perspective, beachside, distinction, English haiku, Indonesia, Java, micro poems, mountainside, Pelabuhan Ratu, seascape, sunset, travel
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A Journey in Progress
1. Across classrooms and countries, through careers and over continents, along siesta beaches, winter swamps, oily shores and fluorescent grocery aisles; Through the streets of unlearned cities, over and over and over bridges to the sun, whether to fantasies in … Continue reading
Posted in Poem, Poetry
Tagged allegiance, callipygian, determination, free verse poetry, inspiration, motivation, muse, poem, struggle, stubbornness
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Jurong Bird Park/Garuda Airlines
His day-long headache discoloring carefully cultivated calm Morning rains give way to a stifling sun and bird calls
Posted in Haiku, Poem, Poetry
Tagged bird watching, conservation, English haiku, headaches, hot weather, ill-humor, micro poem, tourism, travel
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Soaring over Singapore
Regard harbor lit with strings of vibrant townships floating out to sea Circular steel parallax arches slowly through violet sky
Posted in Haiku, Poem, Poetry
Tagged English haiku, Ferris wheel, imagist poetry, international, micro poems, nighttime, Singapore Flyer, tourism, travel, travel writing
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Thoughts on the new Marshal Mathers LP. Continue reading
Posted in Haiku, Poem, Poetry
Tagged Eminem, inspiration, lyricism, Marshall Mathers LP 2, sickness
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Diametrically Opposed Motivations
Excoriate over lack of work ethic and ambition: contemplating my hypocrisy over recognition’s meaninglessness while still refusing to write for my pleasure
Posted in Haiku, Poem, Poetry
Tagged contemplation, english, Excoriate, excoriation, hypocrisy, introspection, laziness, macro haiku, meaninglessness, motivation, poetry, recognition, work ethic, writing
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A stunning disparity Continue reading
Posted in Haiku, Poem, Poetry
Tagged craftsmen, disparity, economic inequality, English haiku, Indonesia, Jakarta, micro poems, poverty, quick read, shanties, wealth
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Excerpts of a hardly notable day. Continue reading
Posted in Haiku, Poem, Poetry
Tagged English haiku, haircuts, hypochondriac, indignant, micro poems, mundane, obvious, poetry
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One wonders at the inanity of court-required educational pursuits. Continue reading
Posted in Haiku, Poem, Poetry
Tagged defensive driving, English haiku, idleness, inanity, micro poems, poetry, proof of identity, speeding tickets, tedium
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Thoughts waiting for lunch
Observations between ordering and eating fettucini. Continue reading
Posted in Haiku, Poem, Poetry
Tagged cell phones, classroom, English haiku, habit, haiku, Indonesia, monotony, the awkwardness of attraction, travel, ubiquitous technology, vagrant
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Fleeting moments in Bali. Continue reading
Thoughts on mega-malls and solitary exploration. Continue reading
Posted in Haiku, Poem, Poetry
Tagged adventure, Bali, blockbusters, daily haiku, exploration, introversion, mega malls, movies, Thor: the dark world
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The Trouble With Words
Tell me, how does one write poetry in a language so sorely lacking in words as English? How does one compensate for the absence of a word describing that feeling of destiny when a cute girl with curly hair and … Continue reading
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Arbitrary enjambment/ Surp rise!
Please, No Photography in the West Galleries
1. In five white rooms styled in clinical sparse sterile modernity, bright lights (akin to futurist canons) project orbs of illumination upon the walls and around floating pedestals, egg yolks whitewashed into transparency, trapped in space, immovable like massless particles … Continue reading
Posted in Poem, Prose
Tagged dc motors, glass, Ringling Museum, sculpture, sound, Zimoun
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A Glimpse of Artemis
With the warm season, comes itchy ankles and curly hair, nights waking up to damp pillows, cornucopias of moths blocking screens and casting erratic shadows. A time of migration, the months away from home condense into the atmosphere sticking skin … Continue reading
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Tagged Actaeon, circus, free verse poetry, humidity, museum, outdoors
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Lamentation for a Lost Notebook
As with so much else half-years disappear–– or perhaps never existed, as material now as dreams or delusions, inspiration or ether, memories slipping beyond the grasp of recollection; strings of words and thoughts, the private mind’s reaction to life banished … Continue reading
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Tagged forgetfulness, free verse poetry, lament, losing things, notebook
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View Through the Sliding Glass Door
Light reddens, leaves grow silhouetted on low-slung rain and sun-beaten shingles beyond a worn, unfinished––or no longer finished ––fence: rotting, sloppily staggered vertical slats with uneven tops and wider seams spotlit in afternoon rays, while grotesquely faded and mold-bleached sides darken in … Continue reading
Muted Observation of Small Things
Notebook battered, spine-broken from underuse a life traveling, sitting blinded without thought while bristling nature hastens past: glorious colors, swelling sounds bursting like wings from the back of a startled iridescent beetle
Crying Fowl (a tentative title)
Arguments are about communication–– or lack thereof–– Each side beckoning its own call to be heard Frustration mounts, reason falling on opposition’s deaf ears–– Who surely would understand: absolve otherwise–– And ethos, exhausted, succumbs to pathos and sharp tongue Lashing … Continue reading
Oxidizing Over The Seasons
Months of stagnation waiting for strangers to go by unrecognized Guilt, not a dry pen, has left marks that they can see but not decipher; It’s hard to shake off the muted rust from one’s heart in the depths of … Continue reading
Stoner Haiku Returns
Structure helps when you Can’t find any words to say Just think in rhythm The oddest thing on Days like this has got to be Eating like normal Stagnating in plot Process, imagination and resolution Once shrouded in sleep Months … Continue reading
Less Unfinished
Idly dancing shapes, like castles of shadows, the mathematical derision creeping–– Early angled winter evening light through gates interred like waves of particles drifting to impossible locations. Interaction undetectable without perturbation; Crisscrossing lines to disturb elation fluctuating in time despite … Continue reading
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Tagged poem, poems, poetry, progression, punctuation, sketch, unfinished, writing
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Unfinished
Idly dancing shapes like castles of shadows The mathematical derision creeping Early angled winter evening light Through gates interred like waves of Particles drifting to impossible locations Interaction undetectable without perturbation Crisscrossing lines to disturb elation Fluctuating in time despite … Continue reading
Posted in Poem, Poetry
Tagged Andrew Whiting, experiment, poem, poems, poetry, sketch, unfinished, writing
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Premier autoportrait
Shattering glass as a career choice no matter how much sex you get isn’t satisfying “Backfire” is the most perfect word I ever heard in my whole stupid short life It’s a frequent matter of debate if a fall or … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Whiting, big words, lassitude, poem, poems, poetry, read, self-portrait, sentiment, writing
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Random notes
Here are some excerpts from my “Nonrealized Poetical Stuff” file: I like you. I like thinking about you, and dreaming about you, and trying to remember how you smell. I think you’re stunning, and gorgeous, and sexy in every way. … Continue reading
Posted in Bomb-ass Eloquent Shit, Poem, Poetry, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged congratulation, giddiness, outright failure, poem, poetry, prose, story arcs, unmanned rocket, writing
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Words, like neoplasia
Sometimes words, like neoplasia Start as nothing but seemingly benign Mere irregularities in subject matter One wonders, marvels, baffles At how they could have seemed so hideous Such weak little worthless things Rolling off tongues like kisses Sweet and delicate … Continue reading
Today is Monday too
It falls from the sky Despite the lack of clouds No torrent, no rain, nothing but sunshine And in the lack of darkness There is nothing else Time––malevolent benefactor–– Marches by with the sun, The crescendo creaking calls Of impatient … Continue reading
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La Paralysie [v2]
Aussi, il faut te dire: Je te veux dans tous les sens, de tes beaux pieds à ton sein doux [qui est ma patrie dans ces battements du cœur]. Ma très chère, très belle, très enivrant, trop grisant amie, Tu … Continue reading
Posted in French, Poem, Poetry
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To Watatsumi
Ocean waves of tar Indifference of the earth Stuns absolutely The comedy of Losing one’s house Was not lost On me I laughed through my tears As it crept With hunched shoulders A scorned child Led away by the sea … Continue reading
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Declension
Amiability begets affection; a smile becomes a laugh; Touch intensifies toward caress; glances soon aspire to steal gazes And trembling beats inevitably erupt in seizure As René at Etna, searching solemn and alone For meaning and motion in life pantomimed, … Continue reading
The Burning Boy
As my eyes alight on cloudy mist, and see spring-winter dew, With thoughts abound from here to there, but always over you The things to say, (even how and why) come easily like rain Whose hopeful new clouds can make … Continue reading
More Haiku
Cheap sushi today And free pizza yesterday Fat wallet and ass Skipped class and took nap Then got high and did stretches I said, “Feels good man” Summery winter Crisp blue sky through bare branches Daydream tenderness Speaking of football … Continue reading
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1440
Minutes last longest Moments crash down Seconds simply drip Days disappear Weeks evaporate Months blow away Years build up Quietly overhead But the minutes Decades of cumulus and nimbus Rain down without rest Without respite Unceasing, uncaring Unending Fill gauges, … Continue reading
I’m not sure what this is
“The leaves had all fallen out by mid-December like they always do, I guess. This year I thought it was pretty at first, then I hated it, then one day was so clear and blue and beautiful that I loved … Continue reading
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Writing on Black Paper
Ok, while I prefer to simply put up a poem without explanation, this poem probably needs explanation, or at least me to mention the timeframe, in case anyone should worry about me today: I wrote this (I think) in early … Continue reading
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My Days In Da Game
To everyone who said there is no such thing as a hardcore rap group from Huntington Beach with 2 members* who have 4 personalities each (sort of like D12, but way hardcorer), thereby equaling 8 full personalities, I give you … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Essay, Poem, Poetry, Short Story, Uncategorized
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Substance
How does one write about nothing? Write nothing? No. I shall write something. It shall mean nothing. It will not have any of me. And neither will you. I will write: “This is us. We were nothing,” Something as nothing. … Continue reading
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Working
Black shoes, Khaki pants, Black belt, (with stylish diagonal slits showing perpendicular streaks of blue) Black button-up, short-sleeve shirt Black apron, Magnetic name tag, Armor against thought, Protection against economy, Uniform against freedom, Talk and waste time Clock in early … Continue reading
Super Gravity
There are seven collapsed dimensions So the equations say Incomprehensible shapes Smaller than atoms Still more ubiquitous Forward and back Side to side Up and down Along the rivers of time–– Those four remain But what of the others? Folded, … Continue reading
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