Tag: people
member name: Jim Ross
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July 19, 2006 11:02 AM EDT --
How deep is the water here? Our scant plumb line is insufficient to give the answer. Here's hoping wit, patience and a well brimming with humility helps.
Insufficient Tools
What could be harder
Than . . .
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July 29, 2006 12:27 AM EDT --
A birthday loomed for an ageing friend and I saw the fear in his eyes. Being a questing soul that perhaps couldn't see what he gave others, I wrote this poem for him, hoping it would help. Rest in . . .
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July 29, 2006 03:58 PM EDT --
As slow flight turns into a stall and the farmhouse below turns beneath the silvering prop, my heart and mind race commanding . . .
Spin Me Not
Push the right rudder
As the left wing starts to fall
And . . .
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July 31, 2006 03:04 PM EDT --
There he was making motorists keep their distance, which was hard since his ancient, overloaded truck weaved as well as jounced down the highway. Definitely an "oy veh!" Monday.
Dodging Produce . . .
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August 01, 2006 12:26 PM EDT --
Ernie Z. published a great article, "Are You Attractive to Others?" that inspired the Tanka here. We all need the answers to the questions his article poses--nature, nurture, or both? I'm . . .
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August 04, 2006 01:14 AM EDT --
As summer continues hot and mesquite scents the night . . .
Candlelight Dinner
Breeze fanned flame dances
For lovers beneath the moon
Who eat and drink night
© 2006 Jim Ross
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August 07, 2006 01:37 AM EDT --
A squirrel fills his hidey hole with food as I fill my notebooks, lest paucity find us wanting to fight our battles.
Pastoral Pit Stop
I search the morning
For life's colors and textures
To stir . . .
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August 09, 2006 01:30 AM EDT --
There were two slatted crates on the fourth story balcony, each with several chickens in it. An odd sight for an American visitor in China, but not as odd as an emerald green rose . . . anywhere--which . . .
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August 18, 2006 11:51 PM EDT --
Inspired by my friend, Liz, who is learning to fly but who already knows its beauty
Pulling Free
High wings shade keen eyes
Masked behind smoky glasses
While arms tug the yoke
And . . .
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August 19, 2006 01:17 PM EDT --
Morning Billows
Morning clouds of night
Ominous shadows to love
Lead our eyes to light
As the breeze and cresting sun
Burnishes their gold billows
© 2006 Jim Ross . . .
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August 20, 2006 08:44 PM EDT --
Frosty Hamlet
Hot sparks erupted
When the generator blew
Laying low the town
Now numb under midnight sun
With a polar power freeze
© 2006 Jim Ross
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September 07, 2006 01:15 AM EDT --
Be Kind My Love
My heart can shrivel
With salty words from your lips
Who have sworn to me
A love to last the ages
In peace and tranquility
© 2006 Jim Ross
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September 07, 2006 01:43 AM EDT --
Waiting Heart
Distant crimson flag
A brilliant flickering clue
Told me on the wind
Strong and fresh from the ocean
The horizon's news of you
© 2006 Jim Ross
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September 07, 2006 02:20 AM EDT --
To Be With You Again
When I hold your face
And feel your hair brush my hands
My heart leaps to you
And I pull your lips to mine--
Delicate touch of our love
© 2006 Jim Ross
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September 07, 2006 02:43 AM EDT --
Riverbank Sketch
Tight wild river winds
Grayish clouds scud quickly by
To steel white water
Redwoods bear their tall burden
Of fickle wind and eagles
Copyright 2006 Jim Ross . . .
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September 09, 2006 12:20 AM EDT --
A Matter of Taste
Cat flipped the kibble
With an averted-eye roll
And sauntered away . . .
To return with a scrub jay
Too slow for Cat's autumn prowl
Copyright 2006 Jim Ross
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September 09, 2006 01:33 PM EDT --
Clearly Tanka
Every syllable
A note of your vision's song
Of cold morning fog
Of flowers straining for light
That makes your heart leap for joy
© 2006 Jim Ross
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August 07, 2006 05:10 PM EDT --
The wrecking ball awaits its crew to animate it in the morning, but now for the last night . . .
Yesterday's Justice
Courtroom
Frozen in time
Without legal motions
To flutter cobwebs draped on signs . . .
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August 08, 2006 09:56 AM EDT --
Early rise, tearful parting, trepidation, hope . . . all part of the Mobius Strip of international life.
Long Flight
--Must you go now, dear?
Fraying laces fight eyelets,
Tears shed in common.
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August 08, 2006 10:08 PM EDT --
It is inescapable that I should see the beauty behind the beast, for it existed; but it is transformed now and cannot be returned to the world of light.
Stunning Beast
Pressures
Surely make you
Move . . .
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