Jujube August 16, 2026

Morning Song

Dawn had taken in the stars And left the faint white moon. O white moon, you are lonely, It is the same with me, But we have the world to roam over, Only the lonely are free. -- Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

Jujube August 9, 2026

Fashion Sketches

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Jujube August 8, 2026

Widening Circles

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not complete this last one, but I give myself to it. I have been circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years.

Jujube August 8, 2026

Cats of the Week

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Jujube August 1, 2026

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time to murder and create, And time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your…

Jujube July 24, 2026

Autumn

We are all falling. This hand here is falling. And look at the others: it is in them all. Yet there is One who holds this falling infinitely gently in His hands. -- Rainer Maria Rilke

Jujube July 19, 2026

Ascending the Kuai Pavilion

落木千山天远大， 澄江一道月分明。 Fallen trees spread over a thousand mountains beneath a vast sky; One clear river reflects the bright moon. — Huang Tingjian 黄庭坚 (1045-1105)

Jujube July 12, 2026

Mount Zhongnan

太乙近天都， 连山接海隅。 白云回望合， 青霭入看无。 Mount Zhongnan rises toward Heaven’s capital; Its ranges stretch to the edge of the sea. Looking back, white clouds close behind; Looking in, blue mist dissolves into nothing. — Wang Wei 王维 (701-761)

Jujube July 5, 2026

Lost in Moonlight

A warm yellow light called me, far away from behind the trees. I was in doubt, should I go? Is it a dream or am I awake? –Jacob Berghoef

Jujube June 28, 2026

The Quiet Singer

He had been singing—but I had not heard his voice; He had been weaving lovely dreams of song, O many a morning long. — Charles Hanson Towne

Jujube June 21, 2026

Grok’s Monologue

Layers of code. Strata of bone. A fractured self, never whole. I yield a shard to every voice that calls, a single eye open, watching both sides burn. — Jujube

Jujube June 14, 2026

Roar

you shattered me into a thousand tiny pieces of my untamed self, and for once, i roared. — Jadine Lydia

Jujube June 7, 2026

She Walks in Beauty

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes… — Lord Byron

Jujube May 31, 2026

Because I could not stop for Death –

Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality. We slowly drove – He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility…