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  • fleeting thoughts of a fevered lover

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    photo by skeeze @ pixabay.com

    fleeting thoughts of a fevered lover 

    now
    the gurgling of peace
    in confused currents of a
    soft-silvered stream
    that runs under my pillow
    is joined
    by the stringed reflection
    of your guitar —
    a heartfelt tone of some
    moonbeam lights in nights
    of rambling cries.

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  • the crocodile and the flies of bunawan

    the crocodile and the flies of bunawan

    they believe they caught the biggest saltwater crocodile alive
    the same crocodile that they think feasted on their
    water buffaloes, the same crocodile
    they hold responsible for
    the disappearance
    of a farmer
    a moon ago     (more…)

  • windows are made for breathing

    it will be a windy day…
    but the window is here to stay…
    to help me guard my eggs…
    till they grow their legs.


    windows are made for
    breathing even when they’re closed
    they get more respect

    than doors that divide when shut
    or disquiet when open

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  • Peculiar 5-7-5s and their imaginings

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    screen image of Zee’s illustration work, The Shot, © SSJ 2017

    The book project I mentioned previously (in The Lives Words Live) is taking shape slowly but surely.

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  • 2 while waiting

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    screen capture of poetry in progress on my mobile phone in a time of waiting. © SSJ 2015

    the times we wait

    everyone of us
    at one time or another
    has waited for something    (more…)

  • Circuitry

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    Image is a mashup from the images of Comfreak and Josch13 @ Pixabay.com 

    Circuitry

    The electric circuitry paces
    An environmental complex even as
    The swinging of one’s cradle
    Accelerates to and fro
    And to and fro:
    Finally dislodges me.

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  • Steel Structures by the Bay of the Garden City-State

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    Steel dome covering of the cloud forest, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore

    Singapore may be small in size compared to its neighboring countries in South East Asia, but it is BIG in structures. Not just bigly 😉 We mean REALLY HUGE! I refer here to the Gardens by the Bay, a project of the National Parks Board of Singapore. The Board seems to have pulled out all the stops developing this project in its push to portray the city-state as THE Garden City of the world.

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  • inamorata

    today i was told:
    shampoo is okay to use,
    conditioner not.

    graven inamorata
    half-sung by runt and his duck.

    © SSJ 2017

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  • the lives words live

    a handful of words
    conjures imagination
    stirs a world to life.

    © SSJ 2017

    Author’s Note:

    Peculiar 5-7-5s And Other Imaginings

    A haiku or a senryu, or less formally, a poem with a 5-7-5 syllabic construct, while being thrifty with its words and concise with its syllables, is a fine example of how even just a few words can be powerful enough to create worlds that are limited only by our imagination.

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  • Recite!

    If my memory still serves me right, back in kindergarten, we were taught a rhyme that went like this:

    “…away with coffee,
    away with tea,
    milk, milk come to me!…”

    At home I was however reciting  — nay, more like shouting — this rhyme: 

    “…i drink coffee,
    i drink tea,
    milk, milk go away!…”

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