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Coyote Dec 2010
One for all and all for one
We’re together everyone
We’re together one and all
Though our voice is rather small
Even though our voice is small
We’re together one and all
Getting louder everyday
Growing strong in every way
Growing strong and getting loud
Standing tall and standing proud

Pretty soon they’ll here our cry
From every corner of the sky
Crying out for liberty
Stop the killing
Let them be
Can you hear me Sarah P
If they die then they ain’t free
If you **** them one and all
Then you've only built a wall
Built a wall and locked the door
I've been taking myself far too serious lately so I decided to write something silly off the top of my head. It ain't Billy Shakespeare, but if it brings a smile well, that's enough...
511 · Jan 2011
Vindico
Coyote Jan 2011
When on Sunday I kneel and pray
Before the altar of man’s decay
I look up at the Christ and
I hear him say: “It’s time for you to go.

Reality lies within your dreams
and only you know what that means
But I can’t tell you a single thing
you don’t already know”.

So I walk out across the floor
Past the choir and out the door
Remembering things
I knew before...

When I was a younger man.
506 · Apr 2012
Forty-Eighth Haiku
Coyote Apr 2012
No warmth from the Son
Heaven must be a cold place
A profane wasteland
502 · Nov 2010
Twenty Fifth Haiku
Coyote Nov 2010
The lying old Fox
Misleading the Elephants
Killing the Eagle
500 · Jan 2012
Nusquam
Coyote Jan 2012
It’s just so **** frustrating
all this ignorance and war
It gets my mind to thinking
what the Hell is it all for

Half a million dying
for some worthless desert sand
No matter how they moralize
I just don’t understand

It seems to me that freedom
can’t be purchased with a gun
But hey the folks in Washington
they’ve got to have their fun

They’ll tell you Christ is coming
so you’d better pick a side
Cuz’ if you ain’t a Christian
There will be no place to hide
496 · Oct 2010
Eventus
Coyote Oct 2010
When the world seems
too heavy
And my back is breaking
from the load
I look off in the distance
but see no lights upon
the road
Well it all just kind of ended
before I knew it had begun
I'm tired of this darkness
and the shadows on the sun

Life is never easy
and death is always
hard
I look up at the dealer
as he passes me a card
I slip it in my pocket
and I walk out in the yard
The moonlight looks so jaded
and it pays me no regard

Salvation in a bottle
Liberation in a glass
The God who made
the flowers put the
serpent in the grass
I guess the way it
happens is the way
it's supposed to be
Heaven is for certain…

If you never disagree.
488 · Jun 2011
Odd Folks
Coyote Jun 2011
Some men live their lives
forcibly chained to a ball
of iron and curse God.
Others willingly chain
themselves to a cross
of gold and curse the
devil.

Odd sort of folk these
Christians...
479 · Dec 2010
Twenty Seventh Haiku
Coyote Dec 2010
Restless thoughts pervade
A slow rain begins to fall
Madness washed away
466 · Mar 2012
Now and Zen
Coyote Mar 2012
Now and Zen I think of things
I've never thunk before
I think
and think
and think
and think
Then sit and think some more.
When evening comes
I take my thoughts
and put them in a jar
Then stroll among the fireflies
and wish upon a star
One must not waste all his time thinking deep thoughts. Wishing upon stars is sometimes twice as useful...
465 · Nov 2010
Twenty Sixth Haiku
Coyote Nov 2010
No theology
And no ideology

The sound of one hand...
461 · Mar 2012
Thirty-Sixth Haiku
Coyote Mar 2012
Above the temple
Stars sail the sky’s azure sea
Passing unaware
459 · Mar 2012
Forty-First Haiku
Coyote Mar 2012
A flash of brilliance
Then darkness again holds sway
The Tao of a poet
455 · Oct 2010
Penitus
Coyote Oct 2010
He’s found Hell
who's searched
his mind and dared
to see his soul.
And Heaven too
is there as well
for those who pay
the toll.
But few find Heaven
from within and many
rot in Hell.
While fewer still find
anything and no one
lives to tell.
455 · Oct 2010
Periculum
Coyote Oct 2010
Spinning ever faster into oblivion,
the servant cannot hear the Master’s
voice
All the world burns with the greed
of the new divinity
The preoccupied masses kneel before
the glow of the sacred blue screen as
the last lights of humanity flicker
and vanish into the abyss

Oh man, what has thy vanity brought?
- From Notes from the Abyss
453 · Dec 2010
Twenty Eigth Haiku
Coyote Dec 2010
There is no 'Other'
There is no longer a 'Them'
There is only
'Us'
452 · Mar 2012
Fortieth Haiku
Coyote Mar 2012
Behind autumn's tears
Innocence longs for summer
And days of sunshine
448 · Oct 2010
Twenty Fourth Haiku
Coyote Oct 2010
Serpent of Eden
Your gift of liberation
A curse or blessing?
How one answers this question says a lot about how that person views the world and man's place in it.
435 · Feb 2011
Twenty First Haiku
Coyote Feb 2011
A genuine love,
If only for a moment,
Is eternal bliss.

Infatuation,
Though it may last a lifetime,
Dies with the body
430 · Oct 2010
Recollections
Coyote Oct 2010
Does anyone know
where sanity goes
when the voices
cry out in the silence?
And all that you knew
has been proven untrue
but the blood and the pain
and the violence.
If there ever was time
to collect what is mine
it’s a long time ago
I am certain.
The reward I desired
was consumed in the fire
when the gods up on high
dropped the curtain.
And don’t ever presume
that your life will resume
when insanity passes with
morning.
For the shadows hold fast
to the present and past
when love disappears
without warning.
- From Notes from the Abyss
430 · Mar 2012
Thirty-Third Haiku
Coyote Mar 2012
Within stone circles
the ancient gods of the land
mock our ignorance
429 · Oct 2010
Third Haiku
Coyote Oct 2010
The world falls apart
All our dreams reduced to ash
Clouds pass unaware
It was once pointed out to me that this haiku might be better if read backwards...Hmmm
424 · Jan 2011
Twenty Ninth Haiku
Coyote Jan 2011
Through a morning rain
I hear the voice of nature
Laughing at my sins
421 · Mar 2012
Forty-Second Haiku
Coyote Mar 2012
I think I exist
But it could be in my head
Or possibly yours
419 · Oct 2010
Zen Haiku
Coyote Oct 2010
Far in the distance
The sound of one hand clapping
Echoes through my soul
- From Notes from the Abyss
402 · Apr 2012
Forty-Sixth Haiku
Coyote Apr 2012
Fearing the grey tomb
So much so you fail to live
Dead before your time

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