RENGA

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Lim’rick is laughing
Poem loving and living
Haiku transcending

.....Bird sings
.....Breath rustles tree
.....God weeps

Bauble, babble Mynah bird
Cautious – root, worm, earth entwine
Night cacophony

.....Light fades
.....Dark envelopes,
.....God laughs

From Can Can Days by GeoE
1987
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CAN-CAN DAYS

My Can-Can days are over
I can’t quite swing my hip
But the songs I sing
Make my Memories ring;
And the “games” I play
Are as rich as a bitch each day

Memory sings
On broken wings
Yet age has not closed the door,

While the tales I tell
Ring a long-used bell,
And the days of yore
Are alive once more
To fill a joyous day

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From Can Can Days by GeoE

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PRAYER

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ALL THE POWER

THAT EVER WAS OR WILL BE

IS HERE - NOW

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I AM THE CENTER

OF MY UNIVERSE

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AND SO IT IS

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From Time & Again

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FASHION STATEMENT

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On a dark and dreary day
In the streets of Monterey
Walked a fashion statement gay
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Stretch pants black and saggy
With matching boots, quite grungy
Golden silk the skirt
Where four planels gaily flirt,
Turquoise, Green and Oriental
Petticoat a-peeking gentle
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Over all of this chick packet
Purple and pink, a bomber jacket
Final touch to top all that
A gloriously jaunty red ski hat
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God's truth it is no lie
Saw it all with mine own eye!
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From Time & Again by GeoE
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'Tis So!

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A sudden burst of laughter
Across the silence of an empty room
The fading, wafts
Into the darkness of eternity
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Was that you?
Or does the echo of your gaiety
Forever sing
To fill the empty places of my heart?
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And is it hope - or memory;
Did you really come to say
"Hey...guess who I'm fishin' with today?
One wise fisherman -
And He won't get away!"
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Beloved friend,
I weep for me - not thee,
And find myself impatient
With the petty goings-on
While you are finding - answers;
Self revealed;
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Looking out upon a promised land,
Walking hand in hand with Truth
The concepts we worked too hard to understand
The dedication to a path;
The joyous crossing that was planned;
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All this you know
And I still wait - and wonder
List'ning in the night
To hear you speak -
"Tis so - Tis so."
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From Time & Again by GeoE
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DICHOTOMY

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Meeting each day's challenge
.....With courage and grace
..........The Karmic Debt accumulateth not
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...........The song is heard by singing
................Love is gained through giving
.....................The race is won by watching
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...........Vision is gained in the list'ning
.......Life takes form in the dying
..........................Courage comes with being.
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From Time & Again by GeoE
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ETERNITY

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Were I to find proof,
Incontrovertibly
That I, in some successful past
Was Plato,
Would that decry philosophy?
..........Or could it be
..........That even he
..........Had rungs to climb?
That all the wisdom of the past
Must be re-learned
Or be forgot
...........And ev'ry single soul
...........Alone must know - or grow
...........In his own time and way?
Or that eternity
Un-divided be
And leads just to the One;
............Or perhaps, indubitably
............Last night's Martini
............Was not good for me?
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From Time & Again by GeoE
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