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BAMBOO LEAVES

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Universal Octopus

Their leaves of grass emerge and fade;with windblown rustling tongues converse.The grove has grown throughout the universe,spreads everywhere its pleasant living shade;creating north south east and west(the fierce, unending struggle to be best);relentlessly growing.The variety is unimaginable,the sameness unknowingand unknowable. … Continue reading →

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IN THE DEAD TREE THE DRAGON SINGS

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Universal Octopus

Which tree?Which dragon? A coffin is a dismembered, sawn up tree,undoubtedly dead.The dragon inside could be you or mea winding sheet from heel to head.Buried alive, unable to get out,I can’t think we’d have much to sing about. Merlin was … Continue reading →

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CRYSTAL BALL

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Universal Octopus

Who among you can bear to peer into the Eternal Not; to disappear into the Nowhere, the irretrievably and absolutely Forgot?  

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BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

Posted on February 15, 2018 by Universal Octopus

Super-talented children play on the eternal beach, building castles and cities and civilisations and worlds, anything, everything they want; and try to keep all and each out of everyone else’s reach. Dancing around hand in hand, they themselves are powdered … Continue reading →

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SAMSARA

Posted on April 3, 2016 by Universal Octopus

Wandering on. Through a waste of perils we have already faced, blown by the hot winds of desire, pursued by our own shadows, touched by the invisible fire, surrounded by supravisible foes. From waste to waste. From oasis to oasis; … Continue reading →

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