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Placard

Posted on January 23, 2022November 24, 2023by kevinjtaylor

We do not beg for peace —
The War-Men have no peace to give.
    Peace is yours, mine, ours.
        Peace is ready now.

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Sequoia

Posted on October 1, 2021June 11, 2024by kevinjtaylor

Life is wood
and then
the sky

  

Published 25 September 2021 at Spillwords Press.

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Isness

Posted on September 25, 2021June 11, 2024by kevinjtaylor

I am
as you are
as God is
Faith

 

 

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Because

Posted on September 12, 2021July 18, 2024by kevinjtaylor

As life is art
so art is life
its light
and the flowers
thereof

 

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Cool in the shade

Posted on April 8, 2021June 11, 2024by kevinjtaylor

Cool in the shade
still dancing
with Lord Buddha

 

Published in: “3201 e’s” 2018

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Apocrypha

Posted on March 28, 2021June 11, 2024by kevinjtaylor

And then, upon the evening of the eighth day
God said “Everyone’s a critic—
This cannot end well.”

 

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Tears in our eyes

Posted on March 28, 2021November 21, 2021by kevinjtaylor

It is hard to wash windows
with tears in my eyes
with tears in your eyes

 

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A riot of Song

Posted on March 20, 2021May 20, 2024by kevinjtaylor

A riot of Song
Of reverberating Song
And Imagination

 

Riot has meanings that include an unrestrained display of emotions, passions, etc.

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Star blue sky

Posted on March 16, 2021November 17, 2024by kevinjtaylor

Waking, right eye first, along the pillow line,
through the dark, and where the curtains part—
for a moment, clarity—a star blue sky.

 

Published in: “3201 e’s” 2018

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I looked up and saw a star

Posted on March 16, 2021July 18, 2023by kevinjtaylor

I looked up and saw a star. And then another.
I traced the light of some small piece of rock or ice.
It might have been space junk but could have been a satellite.
No way to know for sure. The moon was over there.

 

Published in: “3201 e’s” 2018

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Nuthin’

Posted on March 13, 2021November 26, 2021by kevinjtaylor

Shucks!  That ain’t nuthin’—
I seen bigger— Way bigger!
I mean— The Entire Space Building!

 

Published in: “Letter to the White Imbongi” 2013

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Butterfly

Posted on March 10, 2021August 24, 2023by kevinjtaylor

Oh—Butterfly!
Unfolding folding—Away!
Up up down up—Ha!

Painting by Ikegami Shuho (1874-1944).

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Clatter

Posted on March 10, 2021November 26, 2021by kevinjtaylor

Clatter fades
Quiet
Afternoon air

 

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Salty

Posted on March 10, 2021April 26, 2022by kevinjtaylor

Salty chips
Creamy dips
Licky lips

 

Published in: “Poems for Relationships” 2017 as “Grace”: “3201 e’s” 2018

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We sit, we stand, we read

Posted on March 10, 2021January 12, 2024by kevinjtaylor

We sit, we stand, we read
the news. How marvelous
that we do not weep.

 

Published in: “3201 e’s” 2018

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Head bowed.

Posted on March 9, 2021December 18, 2021by kevinjtaylor

Head bowed. Homeless.
What a heavy load
He carries.

 

Saw him crossing a street in LA.

Published in: “3201 e’s” 2018

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Éire

Posted on March 7, 2021June 5, 2024by kevinjtaylor

Shoulder to shoulder
None stand above us

 

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Oh, Grief, my Grief—

Posted on March 1, 2021October 17, 2024by kevinjtaylor

Oh, Grief, my Grief—
how shall I atone
for sins so deep
that Satan, too,
doth weep

 

Published in: “souls arriving” 2006 as “Magi”: “Between Music and Dance” 2013, “Magi”

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My phone is silent

Posted on March 1, 2021November 26, 2021by kevinjtaylor

My phone is silent.
You have not called—still not called.
What else have I done?

 

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main street underworld

Posted on March 1, 2021November 26, 2021by kevinjtaylor

belts hung with trampled halos
trammeled souls
t-shirts taunting— PROPERTY OF HIM

 

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Keep Calm

Posted on February 28, 2021July 9, 2024by kevinjtaylor

Keep calm.
What doesn’t kill you
Just takes longer.

Keep Calm / What doesn't kill you / just takes longe

 

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Thirsty lips

Posted on February 28, 2021June 18, 2024by kevinjtaylor

Thirsty lips
Oasis
Hips

 

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Body Game

Posted on February 28, 2021December 18, 2021by kevinjtaylor

0% BODY FLAT
100% FLAT FREE

CURVED TO PERFECTION

 

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Peace Be

Posted on February 27, 2021November 22, 2023by kevinjtaylor

Peace tonight.
Black. Light.
Still.

 

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The lie

Posted on February 27, 2021August 24, 2023by kevinjtaylor

The lie’s
the limit.

 

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Downhill

Posted on February 27, 2021June 18, 2024by kevinjtaylor

“But Lord Mother!” young Yahweh cries,
“It is all downhill to the mountaintops.
              And all downhill from there.”

 

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mi’ku

Posted on February 26, 2021August 24, 2023by kevinjtaylor

in light
of flowers
bees

 

mi’ku is derived from minimalist + haiku

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A Couplet of Time

Posted on February 26, 2021August 24, 2023by kevinjtaylor

The past is where
The past must dwell.

 

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Frost 1

Posted on February 25, 2021August 24, 2023by kevinjtaylor

It’s snowing
Crows racing, caw-calling
Old hemlocks waiting

 

A ‘ku-esque prequel to Robert Frost’s “Dust of Snow.” Published June 2020, SpillWords Press.

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Frost 2

Posted on February 25, 2021October 12, 2024by kevinjtaylor

I am as She, old black crow
in a hemlock tree,
silently considering

 

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