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Tag Archives: street scene
Notes in Passing
The old man in the blue hat, short-sleeve white shirt, gray pants, blue sneakers, seated on a canvas folding chair staked on a plot of grass, the old man’s elected vantage point from which to enjoy his beer and watch … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose
Tagged dreaming, festival, musing, parade, Poetry, portrait, Prose, sketch, street scene, summer days, this life
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Portrait
In the hospitable equation of a bicycle, lighted doors and people we cannot see, a hypnogogic nocturne forms of its own accord, begetting incalculable solitude and lore to the trespasses of dreaming.
Posted in Poetry
Tagged bicycle, dreaming, house, japan, lore, poem, Poetry, portrait, street scene, trespasses
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Weather Report
From the series, Japan Poems. Satiated want of rain kissing ground open to blurred trysts with strangers.
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged crowds, haiku, japan, niigata, poem, portrait, portrati, rain, street scene, train station
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Dispatch
From the series, Japan Poems. Scent of coming rain, accompanied by silence– Solitude holds sway.
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Tagged desolation, haiku, happy place, isolation, japan, niigata, poem, red light, solitude, street scene, train station
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Wandering
From the series, Japan Poems. Empty streets beckon to breed favored solitude among vagrant dreams.
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Tagged exploring, haiku, japan, niigata, poem, solitude, street, street scene
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Not Basho
From the series, Japan Poems. The old water pump remixing Basho’s pond frog makes a vivid splash.
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Tagged basho, basho's frog, coffee shop, haiku, niigata, poem, street scene, water, water pump
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Days
From the series, Japan Poems. Summer day, parched plants– Kettled filled with cold water borne by the old man.
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Tagged care, haiku, japan, life, niigata, old man, plants, poem, street scene, watering can
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Stairway
From the series, Japan Poems. It is true, you know– I fall in love too easily with the grayday jazz of blue rustscabbed stairways entreating vision and lore to initiate a dream sequence worthy of ghostly passage without tracks or … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue, dreams, japan, lore, niigata, poem, rust, stairway, street scene
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Foolproof
From the series, Japan Poems. It happened gradually, then suddenly– Starting with the last first step off cliff’s edge, followed by the syncing of descent to an upward arc– This is what fools do, betting on themselves each and every … Continue reading
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Tagged fool's wisdom, fools, japan, poem, Poetry, street photography, street scene, the fool, tokyo
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By Night
From the series, Japan Poems. In the hospitable equation of a bicycle, lighted doors, and people we cannot see, a hypnagogic nocturne forms fluently of its own accord, begetting incalculable solitude and lore to the trespasses of dreaming.
Posted in photography, Poetry
Tagged bicycle, house, japan, lighted doors, lighted window, night sene, niigata, poem, Poetry, street scene
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