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674 · Jul 2022
happy mindless 22/7/9b
Mark Wanless Jul 2022
the door opens
   the sun shines through
the small child
   walks out to do

her chores of morn
   feed the chickens
and hungry rabbits
   water the dogs

back to enjoy
   warm breakfast
672 · May 2023
haiku 23/5/22b
Mark Wanless May 2023
my nature is vile
and pure and peaceful and cruel
and here i am now
671 · May 2023
i just like it 21/4/13a
Mark Wanless May 2023
the fly carcass stuck
on wall ten years monument
to a life well lived
671 · Jan 2021
haiku 21/1/28a
Mark Wanless Jan 2021
love is just moments
one by one each at a time
with conscious effort
671 · Feb 2022
haiku 20/7/10b
Mark Wanless Feb 2022
i know there was time
i loved all the world in mind
cake on eighth birthday
670 · Jun 2021
haiku 21/6/27a
Mark Wanless Jun 2021
do not burn the cloak
with me it is beyond the
ken of fay wisdom
669 · May 2023
haiku 21/4/19a
Mark Wanless May 2023
beautiful woman
revolver pick up truck beer
on ice a true sight
668 · Jun 2023
haiku 23/6/16a
Mark Wanless Jun 2023
in a think my third
eye opened just a lose dream
awake different
666 · Nov 2023
growls of hell 23/8/16
Mark Wanless Nov 2023
hounds of hell talked to me last night
hounds of hell talked till it was light
didn't know what they said
just confusion in my head

and i listened oh i listened
to the growls of hell
i listened oh i listened
to the howls of hell

went awake inside my head
saw the face of satan yeah
image of a normal man
kinda looked like you my friend

and i listened oh i listened
to the howls of hell
i listened oh i listened
to the growls of hell
664 · Jun 2022
haiku 22/6/18b
Mark Wanless Jun 2022
the monkey in the
picture looks like me
my ears ain't that big
664 · Dec 2021
haiku 21/11/24a
Mark Wanless Dec 2021
for distant future
tomorrow looms dear and close
imagination
662 · Nov 2021
haiku 21/8/21a
Mark Wanless Nov 2021
dopamine dopa
mine window of the all home
you be me so soft
662 · Apr 2023
haiku 21/2/6b
Mark Wanless Apr 2023
i don't write i flow
i know not what am doing
just i say hello
662 · May 2023
haiku 23/5/13b
Mark Wanless May 2023
i saw a dog in
my mind when i was seven
truth profound i saw
660 · Sep 2023
haiku 23/9/11c
Mark Wanless Sep 2023
young squirrels run on
spring grass fast just new life joy
exhilaration
660 · May 2024
haiku 24/5/18a
Mark Wanless May 2024
fine gold horizons
to destinations unknown
all is just as is
658 · Jul 2019
haiku 19/7/14a
Mark Wanless Jul 2019
i felt a kiss
upon my mangled cheek
valkyrie
viking
656 · Jun 2022
transient 22/6/9c
Mark Wanless Jun 2022
the tiny dog the tiny dog
walks slowly in my brain
and tells me of ted bundy and startrek
i am the big dog in charge
and leader of the mind
though very uncoordinated
i strive to be free ha ha
don't miss the transient memory
it is all there to see but i
turn away and watch the shadows
on the wall,,,,,,oh so beautiful
655 · Sep 2019
dreamers 19/9/3d
Mark Wanless Sep 2019
as time collapses around me
i feel a melancholy dirge

and call upon a master
not ever believed in

to save me save me a hollow sound
that dances across the centuries

from lips of hopeful dreamers of love
felt real
653 · Apr 2021
haiku 21/4/16a
Mark Wanless Apr 2021
a life a life an
innocent life we were once
ha ha i love you
652 · Sep 2023
haiku 23/9/7a
Mark Wanless Sep 2023
i had a dream of
emerging into dark empty void
warm comfort infinite expance
652 · Sep 2023
haiku 23/9/9b
Mark Wanless Sep 2023
random patterns of
choice was my life here i
am now ha ha ha
651 · Jul 2023
haiku 23/7/3b
Mark Wanless Jul 2023
there is creation
of meaningless words and is
tempest manifest
650 · Aug 2021
haiku 21/8/26c
Mark Wanless Aug 2021
i act a lot like
a **** on toast but i help
sometimes means something
649 · Jun 2016
Dirt
Mark Wanless Jun 2016
foreign tongue fast babbling phone call
to half a world away genetic kin
easy as dirt
like the dirt that owns the blood
half a century away
land of snows and lapis sky
hungry maroon monks incanting
barbaric yawp pujas in
decadent political system
controlling the yellow spirit and red blood
of happy ignorant sad intelligent humanity
of the there then
it's always been like this world
when mighty mao and red army liberates
with bullets prisons mortars torture
barrel of the gun communist truth
rippin tongues out with meat hooks
father of such misery you can not see
they treat everyone like this
not just you         yaa that dirt
Tibet

i was present and hearing a phone call between relatives half a world away, literally
648 · Jul 2019
men
Mark Wanless Jul 2019
men
the battle was
and yes i saw
a tempest

to tell to all
not a victor here
nor a conquered
just a soul not dead

Zeus was called upon
   and failed
the Titans were called upon
   and failed

men fought unaided
   as always
war
648 · Nov 2021
haiku 21/11/17b
Mark Wanless Nov 2021
life ain't the master
of me no longer i tell
it what i will do
647 · Jun 2022
haiku 22/6/3
Mark Wanless Jun 2022
i saw a dog in
the mind of me again yes
oh he hurts me so
647 · Nov 2021
haiku 21/11/11a
Mark Wanless Nov 2021
i saw a demon
in my eye it wanted me
to act i said no
647 · Dec 2017
Traversing
Mark Wanless Dec 2017
"Traversing"

The vastness of the universe
Ignites my soul
Thoughts burst forward
Traversing the void
A shimmering mist of awareness
I drift
On the silence
Of infinity
I merge
With the power
Of a billion suns
647 · Mar 2023
haiku 23/3/6a
Mark Wanless Mar 2023
at this time i am
ignorant of observer
and empty of am
647 · Mar 2022
haiku 22/2/15a
Mark Wanless Mar 2022
i do two percent
of what i believe is true
i am not all bad
646 · Jan 2021
haiku 21/1/15a
Mark Wanless Jan 2021
the dog barks two times
i go outside to look see
the hungry bear dies
644 · May 2023
haiku 23/5/25b
Mark Wanless May 2023
you see you feel you
think you choose and that last one
is so difficult
642 · Jan 2024
haiku 24/1/1d
Mark Wanless Jan 2024
you think
therefore i am
642 · Aug 2020
haiku 20/8/21
Mark Wanless Aug 2020
cigarette smell room
the scent of *** pounds the air
essence of journey
642 · Dec 2020
haiku 20/12/16a
Mark Wanless Dec 2020
are we anywhere
a figment of our own mind
we'll see yes we'll see
Mark Wanless Dec 2017
"Sonnets From a Conversation With a Friend VI "


I've told you of my many mind changes
Not just the surface dross, but the living
Core of the root. The blurred symptoms bending
My sight to destruction, the hate of ages
Thriving within, the tainted defenses
Of ego that burned pain with their weak soothing,
This I told you and more. The thorned purging
Of childhood's conjecture, the strength that is
Formed, sturdy and deep, in one days effort,
The acceptance of self, which slow but true
Did lift, this I told you and more. And the vast
Labors of molding the light and dark shape
That frames my world, now glinting a soft burst
Of love's color, this I've told you, and more.
Mark Wanless Jun 2023
You are such a faithful mirror i stand
Close to see myself as best i can. Which
Is hard to do with both eyes closed in such
Fierce a fashion as is my habit and
Pattern. But here and now this you and i
Walk affirmed to one another without
Twisting our minds to suit and please the thoughts
Trailing mud arisen from the rank sty
Of selfishness in the so called other.
Some may see a forced bond with jostling dance.
Let the blind bang their heads in ignorance.
United in chords of friendship freer
Than life, or death perhaps, we move between
The narrow gates to search for hell, and heaven.
640 · Apr 2023
haiku 21/1/18a
Mark Wanless Apr 2023
now is just a thing
we do between birth and death
i am among gods
640 · May 2021
haiku 21/5/21b
Mark Wanless May 2021
with a mind lapsed view
we fill the void with our thoughts
just warm splash  no frog
640 · Feb 2022
haiku 20/7/16b
Mark Wanless Feb 2022
i am a bear and wall
many things can ****
bear and break wall
639 · Mar 2021
haiku 21/3/1a
Mark Wanless Mar 2021
i want power i
want all power and i will
misuse it greatly
639 · Feb 2021
haiku 21/2/16a
Mark Wanless Feb 2021
the pure hallowed souls
of tribes children behind us
we stand resolute
639 · May 2023
haiku 23/5/27d
Mark Wanless May 2023
empty words in a
pattern that comes to nothing
the zero is sum
637 · Jul 2023
three truths 19/11/12a
Mark Wanless Jul 2023
i saw a man waiting for a rat
to come out of its hole
so he could eat it

the snow was menacing but i
did not notice i passed by
no avalache ever came

standing naked on a small ledge
thinking waiting to drop hard
i masturbated and left
637 · May 2024
haiku 24/5/4a
Mark Wanless May 2024
white pettles on ground
heavy trees with rain present
path i now do walk
637 · Jan 2021
haiku wanna be 21/1/25a
Mark Wanless Jan 2021
i sparkled a couple trillion
brain cells
one-one thousandth of a second
ago
blue sky and whippoorwill
634 · Jan 2023
haiku23/1/29a
Mark Wanless Jan 2023
walking the dark night
footprints of something old
softly plodding
633 · May 2022
haiku 19/6/11a
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