The Lost Ringmaster Shirtless, riding across a golf courseon a red elephant, crowds turn to stareat the man with a chest that has no hair. He’s gone missing from the circus as hismount’s tetched with mad louse disease;still looking punched and fit, i.e. pleased. Within or without the ring, his fixed smirkrepresents the mien of…
POPO 2026 Day 27
AUGUST Absolute promise of softeningUnder kinder sunGathering empathy as it travelsUkulele sunsets coolerSummer by month’s end wanedTowards Autumn’s harvest days.
amulet (haibun)
Amulet Tonight was storytime at the library. I asked granddaughter to write my name tag for me and she knew every letter. Besides their carpet letter squares to sit on, the children chose from brightly colored scarves for one of the activities. She chose purple, her mother chose orange, and she chose neon yellow for…
POPO 2026 Day 26
When I go, make me a tree.Inject my spirit into tall oakvacated by transcended bodhisattva.I’ll stay, I promise to continuethe watch, witnessing magnificencethrough gift of sentienceon this plane.I’ll be still, except for playful leavesand muddy feet. Growingever so slowly, taking it all in;remembering untilsacred baton is passed.
POPO 2026 Day 25 (repost, with poem added)
The circumstances in the poem I wrote for this day have changed multiple times, which has led to the decision to write a different poem for the day. This text is a placeholder for the poem. Oops! Forgot to put a poem in here. My apologies. Adding one I wrote last year with a tree…
The Oracle Speaks — Nature’s Church
Nature’s Church Like lichen on river treessee me grow, followingsummer spirit to fall,through to winter’s wither. When world relaxes,you climb above season,light tendrils blossoming[your] secret sanctuary. The Oracle Speaks through magnetic poetry.
