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Category Archives: Eastern

GREAT KHAN

29 Monday Jun 2020

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poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, power, satire

GREAT KHAN

great Khan
I come to sing your praises
(first up, forgive the
orthography)

I commend your
chamber
of surveillance
nothing
gets past you there

no wrong word or snake-like
semiosis of temptation
missed amongst
your billion seemingly
placid and most loyal subjects

monitored every
minute of the day

where
even the fictions of their lives
are best
interrogated
their phantasms brought
before the court

execution must never
err on
the side of leniency

you have written this for us
on every
flag that flies
in
exquisite golden braid

CURVED

22 Monday Jun 2020

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Fire, forging, katana, old age, poem, poetry, Sato, WB Yeats, writing

CURVED

Yeats sensed it
extolled it
this purification
by
withering fire

the coals
seem to be dying yet
hot as stars
in sharp decline

dream-in, dream-out
there the hammering, cooling, firing
their that very concept of
the word smithy
earns its stripes

caring for
the curvature
making sure
the metal yields
does not bend
on its road to
supreme strength

Sato’s ancient blade
weapon beyond comparison

that
follows the line
so
perfectly
(would I
could inherit).

TAIPAN

26 Tuesday May 2020

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East, poem, poetry, Poison, reader. writing, Snake, taipan, venom

TAIPAN

so I asked
inland taipan
about irony

and
being creature
of the East
eagerly confided
that when two
serpents meet
and equal
camouflage
gives
no
privilege to
irony

then by
fixed and
moving line
no
progress might
be conceived

but when
the flicker of a
smile
takes away
that snake
earnestness

and conviction of
venom
lets things
freely express

then might we
see those coils
reveal true
character

and thing so
simple, so
linear
turning so
complex, encircling
itself

then we
can see

irony not
just
as sign

purely
as symbol

but
fangs in reserve
ready for
death action

itself
a biology

a way of life
to chime

with the
comedy, truly
insane comedy

of the
spiritual fall

of the
cosmos itself

KAMIKAZE CLOWN

31 Tuesday Mar 2020

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Japan, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, wordplay

KAMIKAZE CLOWN

went to
the store to
buy
an erotic haiku

old sold out
ditto any
dragon
tattoo

nuthin
doin’

so no
going
fully yakuza
flirting
with role-
playing geisha

samurai
with plastic helm
and toy
katana

settling for
packet of
cardboard crisps
box of
deep-
fried grease

stuff that
will clog
up the sink

clear
the need
to think

about going
full fake
Japan

kamikaze
clown

FIRST EGGY MOUTHFUL

15 Sunday Dec 2019

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art, haiku, Humanity, Japanese, Picasso, poem, poem poetry political moral, Poet, poetry, Reader, social media, wordplay

FIRST EGGY MOUTHFUL
“on ne saurait faire d’omelette sans casser des œufs” attributed to François de Charette.

so there I was
on social media
assuming the high ground
without realizing
I was doing so
(no wonder they troll
me senseless
screaming “idiot”)

at least there’s breakfast to consider
(belly winning that debate with brain hands down)
but right in the middle of
my first eggy mouthful
that window in my head
opened inconveniently
sending a poem through
or a killer line at least
that one folds and shapes
going linear, non-linear and
decidedly centripetal

more than my life’s worth
to let that little bastard escape
my clutches: my raw, scarred
hirsute fingers
in gloves of
rare, studied velvet elegantly concealed
grabbing, holding down
clipping its wings
to add
wings far greater

you are probably
(metaphor as
resonance)
thinking at this point:
Oh I think he’s going
Japanese on this one
(full Oda Nobunaga dancing
with katana to
score by Ryuichi Sakamoto)
talking about
infinite patience
age-old ingenuity

the delicacy
of paper folded into life
tree
clipped aesthetically

brutal beauty of
all four elements
folded and hammered
into perfect balance

of samurai steel

curve on that blade
the exquisite equal to
(that of) the shapeliest of lovers

but here I go
off on wordy tangent
when my breakfast is
getting cold

so I turn hard left into
a Cubist perspective

think of Picasso
all obtuse visual brilliance at
pretty much right-angle

layered as before
but
painted with passion

insisting on
the supremacy of the artist
with the right
to rearrange

to challenge tired outworn seeing

great to leave you
ruminating on this in
a simple haiku

a poem was lost
then came thought of Picasso

see where we now are

HAIKU

12 Thursday Dec 2019

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haiku, poem, poetry, writing

HAIKU

I wrote a haiku
found the perfect words
with the exact
seventeen syllables

so delighted to
encapsulate a deep truth

I failed to notice
the haiku break
so cannot tell you
if it snapped just like
dry twig or a
crystal shattering
into a million pieces

this because I was
so enraptured at
what I had
achieved in the poem

which, for its
unfortunate failure in terms
of strength
and resilience

would have be
an absolute work
of mastery
and perfection

GIST

08 Sunday Dec 2019

Posted by drdamiang in Binary opposites, dark, Dark and light, Eastern, Poem, Poet, poetry, Poetry, Poetry, Sexual, Uncategorized

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balance, binary, Chaos, good v evil, katana, poem, poetry, power, Reader, samurai, Sexual, woman

GIST

I came
to midnight in
you

under satin sheets
black and stupendous

outside demons and samurai
were locked in battle
never – ending conflict
between
chaos and
control

neverending, where the
best victory to be hoped for
being
temporary balance

and under those sheets
much intricate balance
cut and thrust
too

but not
claw versus katana
fang versus naginata

which I presume
you have gathered
having caught
the gist of
what this
poem is about

LYCHEES

30 Tuesday Jul 2019

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erotic, Metaphor, poetry, Sensual, sensuous, sexual symbolism

LYCHEES

a bowl of
peeled lychees
for me to guzzle

stripping the flesh-like
fruit off the stone
so sweet
imagine them

from mysterious
Guangdong rather
than place more homely
like my
own backyard

and how will I find words to
justice to your sharp, distinctive
unusual unmistakable taste?

so different

the bowl is
almost empty

I fear you will wake
and see them gone

cry a
secret river of tears
because we
did not share them together

SHAOLIN SONNET

26 Wednesday Jun 2019

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aesthetics, king fu, poem, poetry, satire, writing

SHAOLIN SONNET

we had
a debate over
aesthetics

became
a friendly
discussion

then
less than
friendly

unfortunately leading
to my WU SHU-ing you

after which
in act of contrition and respectful recognition
I stole your words

KAGE

03 Wednesday Oct 2018

Posted by drdamiang in Eastern, Homonym, Language, Nuclear, Poem, Poem from ZERO GRAVITY (my collection), Poet, poetry, Poetry, Poetry, Politics of poetry/writing/Literature, Uncategorized

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Language, metapoetic, Nuclear, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, thermonuclear

KAGE

sometimes a
carbon life-form
produces poetry

hydrogen and oxygen
uplifting each word
that we might
hear it better

and he we are
if not just
things of words
things
that cast shadows

over forty percent hydrogen
stuff that the stars and
our ending is made of

drop a
poem

on Hiroshima
or Nagasaki

see if your
reader is
lost in
the shadows

is turned
into a shadow

not that
I know the
word for
shadow in
the Japanese
language

anyway, so much,
in fact
everything,

lost
in translation

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