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633 · May 2022
haiku 19/6/11a
631 · Feb 2024
haiku 24/2/23c
Mark Wanless Feb 2024
i am small knowledge
person yet i see the whole
universe as we
631 · Jan 2018
What Is
Mark Wanless Jan 2018
"What Is?"

truth, is a pacifier,
comforting and calming.

truth, is something
to hang on to, giving
a false sense of control.

truth, is an individual
and temporary construct,
of murky human thought.

Truth, is known
only to God,
if God exists.
630 · Mar 2022
haiku 22/2/15b
Mark Wanless Mar 2022
i am the dog that
sees and wonders to the end
and writes it all down
628 · Jun 2023
haiku 23/6/19b
Mark Wanless Jun 2023
escape the matrix
of your construction
a sad honest truth
627 · Apr 2021
haiku 21/4/24b
Mark Wanless Apr 2021
the call of mountains
in my mind i perceive them
so much a coward
627 · Apr 2023
haiku 21/1/13c
Mark Wanless Apr 2023
i see you in gold
intrepid on the mountain
and a person now
626 · Jun 2023
"The Look of Innocence"
Mark Wanless Jun 2023
I saw the look of innocence
Which i used to call stupidity
In the eyes of fresh young bodies
Moving freely about the planet
To see if they can find themselves
Or some thing worth it to be
Or merely exciting the senses
I don't know which but i guess
And think i know a big mistake
That fades a bit from time to time
To let me perceive now and then
New realities and or concepts
Like the look of innocence
626 · Sep 2016
Grapes
Mark Wanless Sep 2016
grapes
in the ear
taste like grapes
sound like grapes
feel like grapes
for an image i bend
you see twisted lump
of motion
flying
for no reason
feet empty
empty mouth
this empty mouth
tastes like grapes
you will never know
your full fine feet
walk a walk
i admire
in spastic dreams
awake
i prefer
the taste of grapes
empty feet and mouth
grapes
esoteric
624 · Nov 2022
haiku 22/10/30a
Mark Wanless Nov 2022
what can never be
arrives in mind a brightness
and is seen by one
623 · Feb 2023
haiku 23/2/15c
Mark Wanless Feb 2023
they say and therefore
we are imaginary
blind money makers
621 · Jun 2022
haiku 20/1/28a
Mark Wanless Jun 2022
reality the fictitious
truth moment by moment
evolutionary
620 · Jul 2021
haiku 21/7/15a
Mark Wanless Jul 2021
electric current
of soul spirit energy
we influence it

with thought
618 · Aug 2016
The Song of Not Self
Mark Wanless Aug 2016
Habits, are not the self
Customs, laws, nationalities
       are not the self
Conventions, language, vision, taste
       are not the self
The rolling Georgian hills, the Himalayas
The western Rockies, the eastern Smokeys
The northern forested Canadian home of the white bear
The White Cliffed Isle, the frozen Red Gulag
The cities clogged with motion, the empty vast stretches
       the round, wet, green, globe circumferenced, the stars
       are not the self
The perishables
       are not the self
617 · Aug 2022
haiku 22/9/19a
Mark Wanless Aug 2022
i hear you young them
i know not where you are at
i am one ear deaf
616 · Nov 2020
haiku 20/11/23a
Mark Wanless Nov 2020
i am rich now
see dog squirrel and rabbit
huddled together
615 · Dec 2021
haiku 21/12/23a
Mark Wanless Dec 2021
pain and problem fall
into mind separate slow
we realize truth
613 · Jan 2021
duality 21/1/29c
Mark Wanless Jan 2021
globules of satan's blood drip into
     our souls

(the lies we tell ourselves are
     part of our consciousness )
613 · Sep 2023
haiku 23/9/5a
Mark Wanless Sep 2023
you cast the writings
in the mists of time space mind
you are reflection
611 · Jan 2022
haiku 20/10/20
Mark Wanless Jan 2022
i saw a small bird
it did not see me at all
i superfluous
609 · Oct 2023
haiku 23/10/11a
Mark Wanless Oct 2023
the best way to sabotage
success having unrealistic
expectations
609 · Jun 2016
Here and There
Mark Wanless Jun 2016
Why were the men of old wrong?
were they ignorant
No! what did they do that was different?
Nothing. Customs ah yes Customs.
What was is not, here is now, okay
i live here, if i lived there
Nothing would stop me from protecting
My woman. Nothing would stop me
Now. Nothing. I live here and there
i like it.
june 7 2016
606 · Mar 2022
haiku 22/3/9a
Mark Wanless Mar 2022
if if only is
imaginary why not
stop playing the game
605 · Apr 2021
haiku 21/4/24a
Mark Wanless Apr 2021
i see the stars in
your eyes as i dream of you
again my sweet love
603 · Jan 2023
haiku 23/1/10a
Mark Wanless Jan 2023
i did not know why
but i felt pain ignorance
equals hemorrhoids
600 · Oct 2024
haiku 24/10/12b
Mark Wanless Oct 2024
there is nothing wrong
with human nature this is
just the way we are
600 · Dec 2021
haiku 21/12/2
Mark Wanless Dec 2021
tell me something old
as dirt and mountains and blue
sky    i might believe
600 · Jan 2023
same oh 22/12/14d
Mark Wanless Jan 2023
i see a pattern
ten thousand years old
new colors new voice
same oh same oh
nothing new is here now
same oh same oh
see the past here now
same oh same oh
596 · Nov 2017
The Body Eclectic
Mark Wanless Nov 2017
"The Body Eclectic"


Sons and daughters of the cosmos we stand
       touched together light vibrations
       adherent
Space emanating consciousness
       consciousness emitting space
       one cause
       without contradiction
Effect arises and becomes
       co-creator shaper
       and shaped
       roiling to laws
       self born
Gravity not other separate but
       one side view of me      you
       rock      the heavens
       coiling together emptiness
       to forms transient
       moving no stopping
       of the process flow exists
       wonderment continual
Words but crippled leprous fingers
       pointing tool only don't get lost
       seeing the path as
       God Journeys End Reality
Metaphors i write crafting melody
       perhaps some may hear
       this effort for my own progress
       to i don't know where
       a here now out
       of the mirror
In the beginning naught
       but the naught void
       not even rays
       clear light
       no need
       all is all in all
What is past present comprehension
       happens none the less
       human views unneeded
       for genesis gnosis
       that which is began
       begins
       omniscience fading fast
       under wavelets minuscule
       almost not
Bump bump cling bump bump cling
       physics births itself
       space time sentience
       primordial wisdom
       one step down up sideways in
       ten directions expanding growth
       nothing happening
       out of the ordinary
Miracle a name for beauty
       not comprehended
       i you we fish elephants
       star
One by one no such thing
       separate a myth
       invented
Oscillations stream genes
       now are
       before weren't
       again will not be
Particles particles
       ever new particles
       fabricate particles
       waves
Us the body eclectic
595 · Aug 2023
haiku 23/7/13d
Mark Wanless Aug 2023
i don't play the game
of what if or maybe
i fall into the day
593 · Apr 2021
haiku 21/4/22a
Mark Wanless Apr 2021
the cold winter bite
i am tracking the prey close
bear killed i shall ****
592 · Apr 2023
haiku 21/2/16a
Mark Wanless Apr 2023
when ever soft love
graces the ground of this mind
sweet rest so happy
591 · Jun 2016
As A Dead Bird Drops
Mark Wanless Jun 2016
as a dead bird drops i fall into a silent place
with echoes upon echoes of mind moving itself
and i scream with the effort to speak of it
to retrieve a speck of the chill fire
to recognize and pronounce it a word
or shape of word      or confusion of word
to bear it into a semblance
591 · Aug 2023
haiku 23/8/8
Mark Wanless Aug 2023
the beginning of
soul your question the strength of
soul is your answer
590 · May 2024
haiku 25/5/13b
Mark Wanless May 2024
i saw a vision
or reality squirrel
sitting still on grass
590 · Jan 2022
haiku 20/10/5a
Mark Wanless Jan 2022
what golden meaning
perceived when in this moment
is but reflection
584 · Sep 2023
haiku 23/9/12a
Mark Wanless Sep 2023
dreaming of buddhist
monk i am not even close
i write poetry
584 · Apr 2023
haiku 21/1/28a
Mark Wanless Apr 2023
love is just moments
one by one each at a time
with conscious effort
583 · Jan 2022
haiku 20/11/4a
Mark Wanless Jan 2022
large dead red dog road
flow the tears on cold young face
rain on dark slick path
581 · Jul 2021
haiku 21/7/15b
Mark Wanless Jul 2021
dog ate the rabbit
i ate the rabbit bones and
**** they tasted good
578 · Nov 2017
One Small Drop
Mark Wanless Nov 2017
"One Small Drop"

I gave one small drop
Of help, to someone
I don't even know.
To someone, I don't
Even want to know.
To someone, I don't
Even want to sit
Next to on the bus.
But that one small drop
Counts. And now, I know it.
Mark Wanless Jun 2023
**** you you justly
neutered mongrel and the hand
that is up your ****
575 · Nov 2022
haiku 22/11/2a
Mark Wanless Nov 2022
the ever mind flows
out a human brain because
that is how it is
575 · Oct 2021
haiku 21/10/20
Mark Wanless Oct 2021
dogs of war growling
in my head another day
danger on a leash
575 · Jul 2022
haiku 22/7/9a
Mark Wanless Jul 2022
this poet is built
on a barn of human ****
one of many ways
572 · Jun 2022
haiku 19/11/17a
Mark Wanless Jun 2022
i saw the dog on
the road with
extreme mange
572 · Dec 2021
hiku 21/12/23b
Mark Wanless Dec 2021
free within the cage
consistent reality
freedom is no cage
571 · Apr 2022
haiku 22/4/15b
Mark Wanless Apr 2022
the constellation
was formed i see the image
forever mirror
571 · Jul 2024
the sky 24/7/9a
Mark Wanless Jul 2024
the journey started long ago
or now i really don't remember

i fell down in icy snow
crawled up to higher ground

felt a sleep of memories
oh so comfortable

the sky touched me
571 · Oct 2022
haiku /10/6b
Mark Wanless Oct 2022
the specter was child
and they dreamt a mystery
i listened and learned
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