Basic Goodness

  first light

        everything in this room

was already here

Christopher Herold

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Yet I still have to rearrange

The coffee tables

Use one of the smaller ones

For the table-lamp

It has been nagging me for days

So, on this morning

Which is not so bright

But neither so frosty

As on the previous days

I make my move

In the half-shadows

I go unnoticed

In the second light

I move quietly

But repeatedly ask myself

Will the change be noticed

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan

Beyond Terrorised

in the deep fires

I saw the way

a peony crumbles

Shuson Kato

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Might this be

The end of war

Is it foolish to say such a thing

Might the flowers

Always be the family

With scents and beauty

Might humanity become human

However much angst or hatred

That we still have within us

Do not ever sanction destruction

Whatever you might think

Destruction actually means 

haiku mind

108 poems to

cultivate awareness 

& open your heart

is by Patricia Donegan

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

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

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