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Thursday, 3 September 2020

Auspicious Coincidence

the shell I take

like shell it takes

ebb tide


Vincent Tripi

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Attuned to our environment

We climbed into the small rowing boat

The subtle, knowing, energy of the water

With its compassion and wisdom

Asked that we share our day


We were available

There for the flower to open

Conditions ripe in our lives

A new circumstance

Soon to become inauspicious


By another coincidence

I write this on this day

It is exactly, give or take

Exactly as the ebb tide

Gives and takes

 

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan

Wednesday, 2 September 2020

Co-emergent Wisdom

after the rain

bomb craters

filled with stars


John Brandi

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Moonbeams and moonrakers

Swimmers in the quarries

Draft dodgers

Emerge together into the limelight

Peace and peace be with you

The story of the ages

The folded, turned over pages

Wisdom, or a simple fool’s advice

Take both of those impostors

As the river rages


haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan

Tuesday, 1 September 2020

Nature

no flower can stay

yet humans grieve at dying

the red peony

Edith Shiffert

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The first blossom

Was filled with purpose

A means of survival

For the following generations


Yes, grieve at my dying

But grieve with joy

For my descendants

And your descendants


I am thankful for the flowers

The peonies, the freesias, the lilacs

Whose immense intense aromas

Convince me of life’s beauty

 

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan

Monday, 31 August 2020

Humor

the warbler poops

on the slender

plum branch


Onitsura Uejima

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Heaven in a wild flower

And laughter

From the droppings of a bird


In all seriousness

I would like to be less serious

Even smile


When it is my car roof

Which needs washing

Yes, smile


And do not worry

About cutting down

The overhanging branches 

 

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan

Sunday, 30 August 2020

Interdependence

a heavy cart

rumbles by-

peonies tremble


Buson Yosa

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From the painting

Murder of crows at dawn

Am I given to believe that the thieves on this earth

And the solar systems beyond are interrelated


I remember the rockets fearsome take-off

I watched, in real-time, the moon landing

I tremble with those peonies

That such a thing is possible


Yet I am more than happy

To depend and co-depend

My cart is not so heavy

When laden with my brothers and sisters

 

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan