Tag: Poetry

• Another meditation on Good and Evil. Nature Psyche #19.

  Does one of humanity’s darkest evilsGrant perpetual license to the state of IsraelTo treat innocent others as though they are disposable?Can we fairly draw gradations of collective evil?This we can accept, that is intolerableThis is defensible, that is despicableOr is it all simply evil?And what of our assaults upon the Earth,Our crimes environmental?Mother Nature will…

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  November 30, 2023

  Poetry, Psychology, Writers

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• Good and Evil, Nature Psyche #18

  Who woulda thunk America coulda sunk To idiocy and hatred Divorce from facts An echo chamber of lies Corrosion of truth Unconscious darkness Projected onto others Unconfronted ignorance Will this evil fade softly As an awakening From a bad dream? Wood block painting by Kawase Hasui, 1933 Nascent flowers Tendrils of democracy Seeds that cannot…

  callimulligan

  November 21, 2023

  Haiku, Nature, Poetry, Psychology, Writers

  Haiku, Japanese art, Nature Photography, Poetry, Psychology, Writers, writers community

• Social media blues

  So you want to be an author, Calli?You must be on social media!To the rules of marketingI tried to be obedientTwitter, Instagram, TumblrNot much successLeast of all TumblrThough I like it the bestI enjoy my websiteMy blog here on WordPressBut here too, not much followingIt’s caused me some stressDyslexia limits the timeI can spend with…

  callimulligan

  November 10, 2023

  Poetry, Writers

  authors, books, dyslexia, introverts, Poetry, social media, Tumblr, Writers, writers community

• Night and Day. The Nature Psyche #16

  Nocturnal stillness Reflected light of the gods Life’s strife can wait One perfect moment To remember,to inhabit For eternity Toils of the day The measuring and spending Of precious Time

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  October 31, 2023

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  Haiku, Japanese art, Nature, Poetry, Writers, writers community

• Dyslexia, a poem, a lament

  How I would love to read With speed, without fatigue Quickly, voraciously Un-dyslexically Jealousy? envy? Alas, it’s true But within the frustration Innate compensations Are small celebrations I’m mostly at peace With me The Reader, by Renoir

  callimulligan

  October 13, 2023

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  dyslexia, Poetry, Writers, writers community

• Autumn Reflections

  High above the hawk is circling Red shoulders cutting through blue sky The year’s last delicious thermals are rising Like feathers the leaves are falling Dazzling colors giving life as they die Surrendering to the season, so gracefully accepting The night chorus of crickets is thinning Issuing a sporadic collective sigh Through the cool autumn…

  callimulligan

  October 10, 2023

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• Impressions of Autumn

  High above the hawk is circling Red shoulders cutting through blue sky The year’s last delicious thermals are rising Like feathers the leaves are falling Dazzling colors giving life as they die Surrendering to the season, so gracefully accepting The night chorus of crickets is thinning Issuing a sporadic collective sigh Through the cool autumn…

  callimulligan

  October 4, 2023

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• Neurodivergent Haiku

  It’s hard to imagine a more unabashed or showy flower than the California Poppy. And they’re tough—well adapted to long, dry summers. Once in a great while, however, a plant puts out a cream colored variant. As soon as I saw this flower it struck me as a perfect expression of what it so often…

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  September 26, 2023

  Nature, Poetry, Psychology, Writers

  Haiku, Nature, Neurodivergent, Poetry, Psychology, Wildflowers, Writers

• Happy haiku (only one today)

  Deep in the forest Childhood’s favorite color Cures the middle age blues

  callimulligan

  September 14, 2023

  Nature, Poetry, Writers

  Haiku, Nature, Nature Photography, Neurodivergent, Poetry

• The Nature Psyche #10. Lost Voices, A Haiku Poem.

  First language, first music Our Earth ever heard The voices of birds Waves of sound, Carrying, Traveling, heralding Life’s expansion of emotion Human ancestors Heard you, did they envy you? Did they long for your song? Nature’s slow clock Ticking, tinkering, misty hands Of Evolution A forest, rustling leaves, Your songs, are quietude For anxious…

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  August 31, 2023

  birds, Nature, Poetry, Writers

  birds, evolution, extinction, feathers, Haiku, mythology, Nature, Nature Photography, Poetry, Writers