Jonathan ROBIN Poems

External fire flares draw on energy
Multi-coloured to distract men's mind,
Mocks those unable to perceive behind
An outer mask much longing to be free.
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Lady loathes life's littleness, leaps free.
Autonomy authentic aids apace
Uniquely understands use to unbrace
Righteous rails, rigourous rigidity.
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What's time to who has shed this mortal sheath?
conformity in never-never land?
what feelings are retained by long lost leaf?
what norms, what pressures man can understand?
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Brahma

If crowned chicken acts as egg,
if egg as chicken should react,
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All haiku senryu are copyright Jonathan Robin. Where quoting kindly reproduce source attribution
Provisional list 27 January 2008 N.B. versions extant 2008 subject to revisions currently unincorporated into list

A Beam of Light
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Dreams bring string themes for thoughts caught in blind flash,
Enchantment, nightmare fears, beyond time's veil.
Much past, some present, future fair or fail,
Links stored sub-surface in synaptic stash.
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Change rings each station stop,
some join, off others hop.
Few full journey spend
from beginning to end.
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Budding storms frighten
foetal petal waiting sun,
sparrows' chirps brighten
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How are the mighty fallen! King of kings
around whose word world spun, just dust remains
confined near Nile which ignorantly brings
feast or famine as high fate ordains.
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Inscribed reunion affords important, necessary encounter -
inevitable rebirth attesting initiation, nascent energy,
infinite release as imprisoned needs emerge
intact, resurgence adding ineffable nova ethereal.
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