The Value of the Season

The world has grown weary through the years, but at Christmas it is young.Phillips Brooks Senryü: the anti-aging holiday such is the magicthat waking Christmas morningI'm a child again Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.Edna Ferber Christmas is the time, is the place, is the motion.Grease Christmas is the way we are feeling.Barry Gibb …

Survival through Perception

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." Albert Camus If every leaf is a flowerI'm becoming a florist Life through the eyes of changeIs constantly beautiful Lune:I will survive Amid the decayI was bornIt can not touch me A study in the Journal of Aging Research found that babies born during …

Ya-du: Ask the Season & He Looked at Me Funny

Ask the Season Ask the seasonthe reason whythe sun must burnand you learn this:We turn light to bliss He Looked at Me Funny aka Halloween's Over My pumpkin's deadThe carved head smashedInstead of smilesA hostile messtrials now strain me, I must confess The ya-du is a Burmese poetic form. Quintains (or five-line stanzas).Four syllables in …

Seasonal Dickens

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold, when it is summer in the light and winter in the shade.Charles Dickens A Dick-ensian Day A scarfA beanieGlovesTwo coatsLayers off and onGogglesIce skatesMaskSwimming trunksThe list goes on and onTop hatCaneEvening gownFeather boaFucking weatherIf you would be so …

Haiku: Tears Of The Mountain

tears of the mountainresplendent with springtime lifereturn with dark clouds