senryu: War, greed, and gods

Humans nuke boldly
to empty their hospice Earth.
War loves greed and gods.

free verse: Old age in balance

introduction: If you grow too old to work hard enough to solve life, you approach your eternal nap, which will be in the same void from which you awoke.

As with anything in life, aging has both costs and benefits:

• Costs include learning that:
• Death is certain.
• Random illnesses are inconvenient; nothing cures death.
• Old age is nature's punishment for living too long.
• Life is complex; you may live only if you find enough work.
• Life is expensive; though you have only one, you must continuously earn it.

• Benefits include accepting that:
• Death is certain.
• Random illnesses are inevitable; death cures everything.
• Old age is nature's reward for living carefully.
• Death is simple; you may die only when you relax enough.
• Death is cheap; though you have only one, it's forever free.

senryu quartet: Time, stars, and dust

introduction: Never worship anything that's questionable; such as invisible gods, leaders that hate, farcical flags, and empty celebrities. Always question everything that's 'fashionable,' especially the 'sacred.' Skeptics are the bravest sentient beings because they dare ask. Time creates and breaks. Dust forms stars, planets, and lakes in which life awakes. Crawling over life; why agony, fear, and strife? Why feel Death's dull knife? Time breaks and creates. Each star explodes or deflates, forming dust that waits. Racing to my tomb; I am what, and I am whom? Is there only doom?

limerick pair: Time to kill

Introduction: Enjoy life by doing nothing whenever possible. For example, you can 'kill time' by watching a cat sleep. You find joy, but not nearly as much as does the cat.

Be happy, relaxed, and not blue.

Wasting hours is such fun to do.

Never any crime,

Simply killing time.

What you think it's doing to you?

Laughing at life is not a crime.

It's never murder to kill time.

You just get even.

And with good reason.

Warns each mirror, "Vengeance is mine!"

free verse: Do no harm

Peace requires cooperation.
Cooperation requires progress.
Progress requires kindness.

Do not crush the competition.
Crush instead all competition.
You win only when no one loses.

free verse: Right now

Past, partially recorded, fades into fables.

Future, potentially expected, hides among fantasies.

Right now, actually experienced, dies of facts.
Right now is infinity's cosmic kitten.

Listen carefully to its honest purr. Pet and praise each mortal moment.

free verse: Cat snob clarity

cosmic eternity is where it's truly at
human learns to live while watching cat
give me mouse
this is my house
don't care precisely how
want that now
this cat is very clear
scratch now my left ear
look deeply through my feline eyes
galaxy clusters crowd our skies
though all is gas in cosmic wind
humans gloat how much they've sinned