mike wilson poet – Mike Wilson https://mikewilsonwriter.com Writing in the post-truth world Sat, 13 Mar 2021 16:05:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 177517995 Steady Mind, a haiku…. https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2021/03/16/steady-mind-a-haiku/ https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2021/03/16/steady-mind-a-haiku/#respond Tue, 16 Mar 2021 23:03:00 +0000 https://mikewilsonwriter.com/?p=1432


Haiku by Mike Wilson, photo by Aviv Rachmadian
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Poem and photo by Mike Wilson
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You Tube of International Poetry Reading I was honored to participate in on 2/21/21 organized by poet Sally Rawhey. The video received 47K viewings in the first two hours after posting. I’m the first poet reading (by chance)

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haiku by Mike Wilson, photo by Laura Ockel
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Words by Mike Wilson, photo by Bunny Wilson    
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Talking Heads, poem by Mike Wilson, first appeared in Lexington Poetry Month 2018, photo by Austin Robotics Group
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Poem and photo by Mike Wilson. This poem first appeared in Lexington Poetry Month 2019
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Haiku by Mike Wilson, photo by Tim Foster
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Words by Mike Wilson, photo by Zoltan Tasi (Unsplash), first appeared in LexPoMo 2020
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Craving a plague to explain the malaise of a

frog slowly boiling in a pot of climate change

some punishment to pay debt piled to the moon

a reason to march to a death we can understand

together

                holding hands

no matter how much DNA we sequence

we can’t make medicine to cure what ails us

until we develop a microscope that

               peers

               deep

we strap on masks and can’t quite hear

               the muffled mumbles 

like tourists who don’t speak the language

                     we read eyes

we swim in the stench of what unites us

               afraid to take a breath

This poem by Mike Wilson recently appeared in Hitchlit Review, Vol. 3, Issue 2, Autumn 2020

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