Abandoned home
Wind enters through shattered window
Free to roam
A place where peace never known
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712
Rainy season
I’m top of a ladder
Tube of caulk
Filling crack gutter
Looking down and around
100’s
Of
Wet
Bromeliads
Display
Kaleidoscope
Jungle
Colors
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711
all day
tire changer
swiftly
with
precision
performs
muscular ballet
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710
Birds Fly
No goodbye
Walking on muddy ground
No one around
Pebble inside boot
I’m playing wood flute
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709
Always at the track
The Gambler puffs his cigar
Sitting at the bar
Reading the racing sheets like
it was his sacred bible
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708
Chop down bamboo
Constructing new gate
Garden
Watermelons
Ready to eat
I sit and take break
Soon
Dozens of pesky flies
Sneak
Bites
Communicate
To their friends
Come on over
This fruit tastes great
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707
My bicycle is chained to undernourished palm tree
I’m sitting at a hot dog stand
Next to a middle-age man
He is trying to act smooth
Wearing
Polyester suit
Gold pinky ring
Fake Rolex watch
Cheap shoes
Talking with his mouth full
Pitching
Over & over
Great deal
He can give me
On used “set of wheels”
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706
Young love in Beirut
Divided by religion
Tragic destiny
Cross above her rooftop
Prayer rug below his knees
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705
Pour me some bourbon
I just upset my woman
Do you have spare bed?
She wants to chop off my head
Bartender help or I’m dead
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704
Delicate blossoms
Casually fall in pond
Beauty- koi do not care
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703
She is invisible
Pregnant
Working graveyard shift
Immigrant
Scrubbing toilets sweeping dirt
Says better than country of birth
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702
sitting on beach chair
smoking Cuban cigar
drinking coconut rum
cooking myself in sun
Reminiscing
it was a fantastic run
no longer same same
everything will change
Maybe
time to take siesta in the shade
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701
Lizard hanging upside down
Turtle marching on the ground
Cardinal sips from water fountain
Coconut falls
For just a second
Everyone anxiously looks around
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700
Boondocks
Sitting on tailgate
Vehicles occasionally pass by
Fresh vegetables stacked high
Not much sold
At least food for household
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holding beer can in paper sack
he sat on the dirty sidewalk
enshrined
by the shadow
against the building
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698
6:30 a.m.
same doughnut shop
one Boston cream
cup of coffee
black
soon face the grind
still working at 69
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697
alone with sand and stones
face and sunglasses covered with dust
mind in no rush
body temperature warns time to go
walk back to motorcycle
continue on empty road
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696
The System
The powerful man comes up to me and jams his finger into my eye. He tells me that I must comply.
I very calmly answer that no one owns my body, mind or soul. Even if you give me a bucket full of gold, I will never be bought and sold.
The engine continues to just roll along. The world is becoming a place where the influential do not care who they harm.
The corrupt continue to command the people to drop to their knees. Is everyone just going to fold and please?
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Gravel road
Abandoned
Greasy spoon
Standing alone
The last payphone
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694
Depression
Swimming in a lake
The weeds strangle my body
Trying to break free
I’m only pulled down deeper
into the opaque water
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693
Heavy Rain commences
Another wet season
Termites on the attack
More wood consumed
Me and the missus
Ponder
Will we pass away before shack collapses from decay?
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692
Jealousy
Like termites on wet wood, jealousy will eat a person alive.
There will always be someone else who has more.
Is it even possible to keep up with it all?
Life is unfair.
Contentment is the only key that opens the door to a peaceful existence.
Everyone must look into the mirror.
The decision is for each individual to make.
I cannot help at all.
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691
Desire=Suffering
Daily craving
Meditation
Listen to gong
1-2 hours long
Confused
Mind savors simple food
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690
What Is Education?
You throw me a book and tell me to learn.
Just because you have a pocket full of degrees does not make you the master of everyone’s destiny.
You are all cushy, safe and completely surrounded with wealth all around.
Get off your high horse and go learn firsthand how much many people struggle to survive across the land.
Then we will sit and talk.
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689
Few months away
20 years no cell phone
Wife
Capitulated
Purchased her own $39.99 smartphone
I knew something was up
After two days
She finally fessed-up
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688
lounging in hammock
small irritating bird
“peep, peep, peep”
ripe papayas hang from tree
my stomach complaining
“give me a treat”
I’m trying to fall asleep
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687
He lived in a shack
Writing his poems day and night
No one read the work
Death came and the tombstone said
“Brilliant mind and tortured soul”
Robots
Devoured
Marketplace
Mass produced poetry
All that sold
Humans
Brainwashed
Read only what they were told
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686
The sun will soon burn into the water and take the day’s final breath.
Alone, I walk on the white sand beach, tossing shells into the sea, trying to forget.
I’m clutching deep-rooted memories and my mind remains upset.
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685
long drawn-out rain drips
peeling wallpaper
newspapers
books
scattered on the floor
his mind constantly craves more
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684
Young girl
Sitting on dirty blanket
Tiny fingers
Reaching into packet
Scarfs down
Leftover
French fries
Mother
Collected
While
Begging on the street
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683
cocooned in studio
decades forming clay
twisted stiff fingers
unsold sculptures
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682
1st light
morning pickings
searching
finding
filling
basket
with
cucumbers
lettuce
peppers
scallions
ripe tomatoes
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681
small table
we sit
dipping bread into olive oil
drinking wine
remembering those times…
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680
Elegantly dressed, she eagerly waited at the railway station.
By late afternoon, head down, slowly walking away, realizing the satisfying roleplay sessions would never happen again.
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679
I’m holding a blue rock in my hands.
I begin to move the jagged, hefty piece, around with my fingers and thumb.
It is easy to become attached to this little treasure, that I do not remember where or when it was found.
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678
Dispassionate fog
Provides Concealment for
Predator and prey
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677
purchased in 1991
sitting under blistering sun
terracotta pot
survived
tropical storms
hurricanes
deteriorating
bit by bit
sinking into the earth
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676
mind’s web
accumulates past
calculates future
struggles
with
present
to
cooperate
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675
Peasants
Congregate
On the street
Submissively
Waiting
Holding bowls
While
Privileged
Donate
Soup of the day
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