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Disappointed Hummingbird:

 quasi-haiku and other short form poems

 of Benjamin Suzuki

compiled by Kendal Q. Binmore

part 3

 

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Suzuki poems

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words freed

imprison elsewhere

 

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falling leaf

hiding as butterfly

 

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stilled shadows

cascade rock:

silent stream

 

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tree

twists time

looking back

 

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cloud

processional

of possibility

 

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rock flow of faces

cascading down:

surged past

 

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distant cliff

figured standing

on the falling lost

 

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delicate presence

sounding great power:

hummingbird hovers

 

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abundance of image:

mind released

from battle

 

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bloated young sahuaro

falls in success

 

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I walk in this desert canyon

until only audience remains

 

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monasteried rock

rained statuette

sterile to our purpose

 

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in twilight

blossoms

light the sky

 

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faces

carved by feet

climbed success

 

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conclaves of figured hope

passed on the path

rocks at my feet

 

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in this dry wash

I  flow

on encumbrance of legs

 

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cascading water

makes upright man

 

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cactus spine

silvered in sun

declarative existence

 

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sahuaro blossoms

foreign

to itself

 

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wren

glides along my path

points of evolution disparate

 

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image

absent origin:

possibility

 

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in my hands

a universe endures

chawan

 

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thrusting out of ground

past  incomplete:

quartz quarry

 

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delicate life

awaits to destroy

 

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I take your cry into myself

as foreign to you

as you are to me

 

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envelope of greeting

protective bubble

against fear

 

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tangential life

propelled to an elsewhere

by my presence

 

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xxx

 

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Mitland/Suzuki poems

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on cliff shear

ridged faces

war our present

 

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sentineled stone

of neighborless history

 

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surging mountain:

frozen escape

 

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defeated outcropping

of rock

becomes

visage for others

 

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audienced cliff

awaits

 

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turquoise

too dense of script

awaits our shatter

 

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grinned rock

unearthed by stepping feet

prepares to live

again

 

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struggled rock

pulling itself from creation

canyoned path

 

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figures stand

in sheared rock

frozen wind

 

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fossilized possibility:

bird men in rocks

unending

 

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jagged beauty

waiting to impale:

canyon floor

 

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