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No Trace

I walk the streets to stray around As horns hang still, surrounding cars No people pass, no flowers found The clouds stay dark, the sun stays far No light, no sound—a man was hung These buildings block the burning sun We take in air with …

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disappearance poetry, lyrical poems, lyrical poetry, meditative poetry, poetry of sight and sound, stream of consciousness, wandering poetryLeave a Comment on No TraceJanuary 26, 2017April 20, 2020 By Frank Watson

Fallen Flowers

This wind will weave   The cry of howling thievesAs calming rain   Unfolds on golden grain A thousand sheaves   A million fallen leavesAnd still these plains   Will fill with bamboo canes  Copyright (c) 2016 by Frank Watson. Loosely translated from Lu Shiheng’s “花落.”

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Chinese poems, Chinese poetry, lyrical poems, nature poetry, poems about nature, rhyming poemsLeave a Comment on Fallen FlowersSeptember 8, 2016April 20, 2020 By Frank Watson

Venice, California

I sit and watch the waters flowing by Before the flower gardens seen by all: A place like this you’re free to loosen ties And break the empty shell of sudden squalls. Back home the path unwinds a thousand links Of men and women full …

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busy poems, iambic pentameter, lyrical poems, meaning of life poems, poems about life, poems about work, poems that rhyme, rhyming poems, sonnetLeave a Comment on Venice, CaliforniaJune 5, 2016July 27, 2020 By Frank Watson

True Learning

Beauty refined in words, You say, “I know it all,” And so your mind is blurred— But if it were, “I am so small,” The lengths you could be spurred. You carry coins with scorn, Enriched like grass in the wind; But all your jewels …

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lyrical poems, poems about learning, poems about wealth, poems about wisdom, rhyming poemsLeave a Comment on True LearningDecember 29, 2014April 20, 2020 By Frank Watson

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