Simplicity

this spring in my hut

there is nothing

there is everything

Sodo Yamaguchi

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White on white

Simplicity came to me

Embossed and embellished

Today the spring’s sun

Lightens my windows

Today the springs breeze

Asks me to go outside

We are in difficult times

Yes, there is nothing

But also there is everything

Hopes that eventually

New ways will begin

When months of compassion

Will bring their own rewards

Light upon light

Simplicity came to me

Refreshed and refurbished

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan

Sorrow

this world of dew

is yes, a world of dew

and yet…

Issa Kobayashi

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What might have been

Without the loss

Without the grief

Without those years of life

My nephews

Dying at four years old

Playing in a house

Where no one expected…

Some recovered

Some didn’t and maybe never will

Even with the help of the rosary beads

And the early morning service

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan

Awakening

  bush warbler -

        I rest my hands

in the wooden sink

Chigetsu-Ni

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I heard the crow

At just gone six o’clock

In the morning

Was I awake or waking

Was I awakened or re-awakening

To that day on the lake

There is a gap, a crack

In that space we share

On the lake or elsewhere

It is a comfortable

Habitual place

Where my awareness readily resides

Not a bird singing

Nor a crow crowing

But silence, silence slowly asking

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan

Gratitude

remembering those gone

thankful to be here

pond of purple iris

Margaret Chula

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As I rise

As I retire

As I remember

Loss, lost

Lost, loss

In the midst of it all

Awareness

Gratefulness

For the lot

For the lot of it all

From which we are inseparable

Necessary to close the eyes

Necessary to open the eyes

Transformed by life itself

Breathe in

Breathe out

Smile

Imagine the lotus pond

Walk to the farm shop

Walk to the bread shop

Be filled

Be fulfilled

Go beyond

 

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan

Illness And Emotions

        as my anger ebbs

the spring stars grow bright again

and the wind returns

Richard Wright

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Inside myself

Beside myself

Would it come to tears

Yet again the light came

I dressed

And chilled the pain

My neighbour's flag

Is calm today

After yesterday’s bluster

I write this in my home

But words would fall equally easy

In a Paris cafe

For I did travel

To European and Scandinavian cities

I did see much water, still and flowing

Though I have not yet seen

The Northern Lights au naturelle

So I do need to keep travelling 

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan